Comments on: NPR = National PROGRESSIVE Radio

By: Pervy Grin

Pervy Grin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:05:14 +0000

I think the most telling part is that NPR had a segment entitled “Conversations with Conservatives” at all. The MSM always gives itself away by treating conservatives as “the other”, an exotic, primitive tribe that the enlightened liberals study as if it was an anthropology project. Can you imagine them ever airing a segment called “Conversations with Liberals”? First of all, a segment like that would be indistinguishable from 90% of their reporting and commentary, and secondly, most of their listernership is liberal and already knows what liberals think, so such a segment would be redundant and unnecessary.

By: Elizabeth Burnett

Elizabeth Burnett — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:53:01 +0000

That NPR had 60 listeners much less callers is surprising to me.

To them it looks like a high demographic perk!

By: Jack Tyler

Jack Tyler — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:31:49 +0000

Yes, a national broadcast garners a whole SIXTY complaints and Pam Meister tries to make it sound as if the entire listening audience is up in arms.

If anyone had any doubts about the lack of integrity in the right-wing blogosphere, this should put them to rest. Or for that matter, doubts about the lack of intelligence….

Utterly shameless!

By: BH

BH — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:26:28 +0000

Let’s see if I have this straight:

1) NPR airs a series featuring conservative views

2) The NPR Ombudsman lists more conservatives she would like to bring in and notes, “There are dozens of diverse conservative voices, but NPR and all news organizations need to work much harder to bring them into the conversation”

3)NPR fields 60–ONLY 60– angry emails.

WTF?

By: Mister Snitch!

Mister Snitch! — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:40:22 +0000

There’s no doubt that NPR is heavily biased. I’d imagine this is about as hard on NPR employees as it is on its listeners.

Good.

By: djr

djr — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:13:16 +0000

I listen to NPR b/c it’s the only game in town – having killed all other news radio with mounds of looted $s. It has some good stuff – like the Glenn Beck interview – from time to time. Yet, even if it were all conservative (or better yet, all pro-freedom / individual rights…), it could not be; it’s a contradiction to expect a looting entity to be somehow great while operating via evil means.

By: Nicodemus

Nicodemus — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:31:12 +0000

The problem with many liberals is that while they say they espouse tolerance, love for your fellow man, and discussing problems instead of resorting to fisticuffs, when they’re actually expected to “walk the walk,” things get ugly.

Of course. Tolerance is for other people.

By: listener

listener — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:08:25 +0000

I listen to NPR because it is the one station I can wake up to without having to endure any “clever” or “funny” DJs. No ads. Long stories. Interesting bits. Great music. Does it have a slant? You betcha. I can hear the slant and it hasn’t turned me into a liberal yet. I would much rather listen to NPR with a judicious ear than listen to Fox News and get lulled into not thinking at all because it echoes the way I think.

By: DirtCrashr

DirtCrashr — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:15:26 +0000

Despite their peaceful protestations and protestations of peacefulness, Liberals don’t want to walk the walk as much as march the March. Onward to the Kool-Aid!

By: doug l

doug l — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:09:15 +0000

The press, whether in electronic media or the printed page, thrives on the conroversy. We are lead to believe that they want to help, and they do; to your attention which they sell or use to further inculcate themselves. It’s our own fault. We should be tempering our consumption of it with knowledge for a variety of sources. The case you cite is regarding conservatives on public radio but the same sort of reaction but from the other side of the spectrum occurs when we see liberals on conservative outlets, often of a different tone but it’s relative level of shrillness or ridicule is neither here nor there. In fact most of the listeners on either side are uninformed as to the history of the right versus left paradigm that we are so confused about. I always recommend people explore the topic of the full political spectrum as exemplified lately at wikipedia’s site entitled “political spectrum” to find out about the Pounelle Axes. Good way to alleviate confusion and to do so in a civil manner. You might find allies in surprising places one might not have expected. I know I have.