Public radio unites nation through dialogue Gross describes NPR as 'one of the most fair news source

Idaho State Journal.com ^ | Elizabeth Ziegler

[Mongeaux]

POCATELLO - National Public Radio's award-winning talk show host, Terry Gross, took a break from interviewing political leaders and cultural icons for a speaking tour, including a stop-off at Idaho State University Wednesday.

Some conservatives have tagged NPR as one of the cornerstones of the "liberal media," but Gross said that isn't completely true.

The word liberal has two connotations, she said, politically left and liberal, as in the liberal arts.

In the first political sense of the word, Gross said NPR has no agenda and presents unbiased, balanced coverage of national and world events.

"Some people in this day see the absence of a conservative agenda as a liberal agenda," she said. "I think NPR is incredibly fair, one of the most fair news sources out there."

[Mongeaux]

Ms. Gross went on to add that "The ocean is not neccessarily wet and, while all Feminists are not lesbians all Lesbians ARE Feminists."

She also denied that Penguins eat fish or that Bears defecate in old-growth forests.

[rocksblues]

"I think NPR is incredibly fair, one of the most fair news sources out there."

And I think she is "wishing" this was still 1969!

[SteveMcKing]

Why does NPR still exist, given that we supposedly control the 2 branches needed to stop subsidizing it?

[KarlInOhio]

She also denied that Penguins eat fish or that Bears defecate in old-growth forests.

Followed up by expressing doubts on whether Pope Benedict XVI is, in fact, Catholic.

[Mongeaux]

Followed up by expressing doubts on whether Pope Benedict XVI is, in fact, Catholic.

That's open to debate of course.

[Libertarian444]

NEVER has a last name been more accurate.....

[Mongeaux]

Enough to make a train take a dirt road...

[FreedomAvatar]

My penis just died.

[Wormwood]

Why does NPR still exist, given that we supposedly control the 2 branches needed to stop subsidizing it?

Because WE don't control a damned thing.

We've simply elected a political class that gives lip service to us whenever they need money or votes.

[Luigi Vasellini]

NPR exists because Republican politicians arent really conservative!!

[AZ_Cowboy]

Well, if Ms. Gross said it, it must be true. I guess I'll go home now.

/Sarcasm

[SteveMcKing]

"NEVER has a last name been more accurate....."

Julie Juggs comes pretty close...

[rdl6989]

Gross said NPR has no agenda and presents unbiased, balanced coverage of national and world events.

Did he/she/it keep a straight face while uttering this nonsense?

[hoagy62]

NPR? Not biased??

*snork*

[Right Angler]

Thanks so much for posting that picture.

Anyone know the best way to remove vomit from a Logitech wireless keyboard?

[Constitution Day]

Ms. Gross needs some Frressh Airrr to clean out the cobwebs in her cranium.

[Rome2000]

Defund the left

[Wormwood]

Does anyone remember the O'Reilly interview?

Gross conducts a contentious, hostile interview with O'Reilly, mere weeks after she had a light, friendly chat with Al Franken.

But there's no bias.

[AlbertWang]

One thing that can't be argued is that the NPR crowd is the most dried up, overly self important, humor impared group on the air waves. If I listen for more than a few minutes I get depressed. They need to pull the stick out and lighten up.

[AmishDude]

Even NPR doesn't think the Republicans have the power to end NPR. If they did, we would be listening to "Fresh Air with Jeff Gannon".