NPR anyone?

[Capt Bringdown]

I just hope PBS doesn't sell out and become a piece of reality-show network like Discovery and The Learning Channel have become. That would leave the BBC as the only worthwhile network in the English-speaking world.

Why don't US cable viewers get better access to International news sources?
In Thailand, I get:
Al Jazeera English
CNN
BBC World
Fox (LOL)
Deutsche-Welle World (daily news and other programming in English)
NHK-World (Japan) almost 100% programming in English
Arirang (Korea) Rougly 80% news and programming in English
TVMonde (France) daily News in English

Al Jazeera is outstanding, followed by NHK-World IMO.

[Yonivore]

That's because you're an idiot and a piece of who prefers the snake oil of Fox Propaganda Co. Hardly means your loser ass shouldn't be paying to keep better people than yourself entertained and truly informed. It might be, probably is, the only good thing you do for this world.

[Spurminator]

So, we can close the schools and just watch PBS?

Besides, if they serve that great a purpose, I'm sure there are private citizens that will be glad to make up for the lost federal funding.

Say! Why don't you pledge to pay my portion.

I've already said they will be fine without federal funding and I'm sure I already donate enough for your share and many others'.

That said, I think the governments of developed countries should allocate some portion of their budgets towards sources of art and information for its people, and I think we could probably build a few less tanks and guns in order to free up those funds.

P.S. You forgot the question mark at the end. Clearly you didn't watch enough Sesame Street as a child.

[Stringer_Bell]

I've probably listened to more Rush/Hannity shows than anything on NPR, it's waste as far as I can tell. I do love PBS tho (Rich Steves' Europe and the cooking shows are great), but I'm glad that at NPR got canned - bummer she didn't leave when she -canned Juan Williams.

Actually, if PBS wants to keep its funding they need to bring back "Where in the world is Carmen San Diego" and "Wishbone" (with the original cast). DO IT MOTHER ERS!

[George Gervin's Afro]

So we have conservatives supporting a liar in O'keefe..yet they criticize dems and Obama for lying..


mmm k

[cheguevara]

I was involved with PBS in the past. They have adequate infrastructure and they knew this was coming for the last 10 years+.

I'm not sure if they have a backup plan but if they smart, they do.

[jacobdrj]

I don't understand the controversy here. I read a couple of articles on this, neither made sense to me. I watched the video, hoping that it would shed light on the situation, and the video didn't help either.

Why did the CEO of NPR step down?

All I know from reading 2 articles and watching that video is:

There is an executive at NPR named Vivian Schiller. She has stepped down.

There is a guy named O'Keefe who videoed some guy named Ron Schiller. Apparently he said something that got Vivian (no relation) to step down.

Ron apparently doesn't want money from the government. This is somehow bad.

Can someone PLEASE connect the dots for me.

[Wild Cobra]

NPR and PBS would be fine, financially, without Government funding.

The unfortunate thing is that without that funding, they will no longer have incentive to remain relatively politically centrist and will likely gravitate closer to being the far-left liberal bastions that conservatives who don't watch or listen to NPR/PBS are told to believe they are.

But the "marketplace" has spoken, I suppose, and we like our news to soothe our personal bias.

Let the marketplace speak.

[Marcus Bryant]

Any outlet that holds out Bill Moyers as some kind of reasonable journalist is a fraud.

[Marcus Bryant]

Further, if PBS and NPR are that popular then their management should have no problem operating without federal funding. Gone are the days when the government was expected to provide need to have services rather than nice to have services for upper middle class audiences, I suppose.

[ManuBalboa]

There are a lot of things these so called conservatives do that they deserve to rot in for. Least of which include going after PBS and NPR.

I'm sorry you sheep ing FOX News addicts can't deal with actual reporting or reality. You bags of feces won't dodge your eventual come-uppins. And good luck anyway. Neither network needs their hands tied by the pennies we each give them each year. So be careful what you wish for.

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Too much ing debt; did not read.

[Stringer_Bell]

Let the marketplace speak.

I don't think NPR would be successful in a normalized market. Old white people only listen to radio, whereas educated/cultured inviduals watch television...so advertisers have no incentive to put money into NPR's anti-gun, anti-racist, anti-tax cut agenda.

Actually, letting the market speak isn't such a bad idea, buddy!

[LnGrrrR]

This didn't help:

I thought you were against being PC? He's just saying what he thinks. Why do you hate liberty/freedom?

[Wild Cobra]

I thought you were against being PC? He's just saying what he thinks. Why do you hate liberty/freedom?

I don't care if he says what he thinks. Just do it at a job that doesn't use tax payer dollars, else be fair and equal.

We conservatives are fed up with NPR's left leaning.

[ChumpDumper]

I don't care if he says what he thinks. Just do it at a job that doesn't use tax payer dollars, else be fair and equal.

We conservatives are fed up with NPR's left leaning.

Examples, please.

[CosmicCowboy]

Is public radio even relevant anymore with the availability of the internet?

[ChumpDumper]

Is public radio even relevant anymore with the availability of the internet?

Is talk radio?

[CosmicCowboy]

Is talk radio?

Sure, when they support themselves by selling ads. You don't like them, you change the channel.

[CosmicCowboy]

So whose interests do NPR serve?

[ChumpDumper]

Sure, when they support themselves by selling ads. You don't like them, you change the channel.

I think NPR could do the same.

So whose interests do NPR serve?

Those who listen to it.

I'm not against dropping the funding. It would be worth having conservatives finally stop whining about it. As it is, it's just another distraction from real problems.

[Marcus Bryant]

The middle class doesn't want its taxes to increase nor its en lement payments to be reduced, so we have NPR, PBS, and foreign aid to fall under the budget axe such that politicians can be seen as fiscally conservative.

We could make some headway on the deficit by taking a look at the Pentagon's budget, but we have a hysteria to defend ourselves from.

[Yonivore]

Project Veritas: NPR Planned to Accept Donation from Muslim Brotherhood Front Group and Hide Origins From Government

It never really was about what the NPR executives said at the cafe -- bad as it was -- but, instead, about who they were willing to meet with, what they were willing to accept from a terrorist-related group, and how they were willing to hide that fact.

[Yonivore]

The middle class doesn't want its taxes to increase nor its en lement payments to be reduced, so we have NPR, PBS, and foreign aid to fall under the budget axe such that politicians can be seen as fiscally conservative.

We could make some headway on the deficit by taking a look at the Pentagon's budget, but we have a hysteria to defend ourselves from.

The only way to get back to fiscal sanity is to cut en lements. Period.

[Spurminator]

biggovernment.com

[Yonivore]

biggovernment.com

Are you claiming the tapes are fabricated?

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