Posted on 05/03/2009 5:38:42 AM PDT by blueyon
Actually, if they’d just go back to eight hours a day of classical, jazz and opera music...I’d be fairly happy with the organization and not say much negative.
I can remember as a kid...listening in the evening to my regional station in Alabama, which was the only place you could get any classical music. Today? In an entire day, you will be lucky if you can find one hour of music. I think most folks are tired of this wannabe news format, which barely has any substance whatsoever.
This young lady went on to opine about when she was a senior in high school her mom and she could no longer shop at their favorite grocery stores because the credit cards were all maxxed out. No mention or getting a part time job, no mention of her mom working or not, no mention of whether her mom was ever married.
She is now a freshman at UCLA Berkeley (Socialist U) and was interviewed (with young socialist heroine status) by the NPR commentator. He did not ask any of the questions that needed to be asked, and no mention of "why use credit cards when you are going to be paying staggering interest"?
Needless to say, my blood was about to boil.
Why am I subsidizing this b.s.?
Does this mean they’ll stop doing all those sappy shows about moderate muslims?
(Slaps forehead with palm)
Of course not, what was I thinking?
Which reminds me that on the few outdoors shows that I sometimes watch on PBS, they ALWAYS ALWAYS manage to squeeze in lots of references to “climate change” and other econazi delusional causes.
On one memorable show with a guy hiking around in the Brooks Range of Alaska, the narrator went into some handwringing pathos about “our endangered Alaskan wilderness” which could only have been a reference to ANWR oil drilling, because to my knowledge no one is planning to build condos or Wal-Marts near the Brooks Range or even several hundred miles from it.
And of course he was not hiking near the mosquito-infested barren tundra of ANWR, but in the substantially more idyllic (but still difficult) mountains 100 to 300 miles south.
But of course that is the mindset of the PBS/NPR outdoorsman, he needs not 10 square acres of wilderness or even 1 or 10 square miles but rather 5,000 or 10,000 square miles of no humans in order to get “back to nature.”
Obviously this is a religious issue at NPR/PBS and not a rational set of decisions or choices.
NPR is PCP (Party Contolled Propaganda).
>>>> I think most folks are tired of this wannabe news format, which barely has any substance whatsoever. <<<<<<<
It’s just senseless yammering about nothing, in faux-Ivy League vaguely-Brit intonations that make it sound like the Muzak of the leftie anti-yuppie yupster.
Unfortunately I see these people in the local Trader Joe’s and I always hope that I am not one of them. Shopping there is a bad sign.
>>>Silencing Christians
Not hardly. It’s available up and down the dial. As far as I can tell there are more Christian stations, at least on AM, then anything but sports. And FM is less saturated but still well represented.
Getting it off NPR is for the best. Unless you want NPR Christian broadcasts thrown at you by those wishing to force Islamic prayer, wiccan, or similar alternative broadcasts on the same govt subsidized stations, under “fairness” arguments.
NPR? Isn’t that the station where you have to have an accent to be on?
Say goodbye to Prairie Home Companion, also known as Democrats Home Companion.
Not unexpected. By the middle of this century (2050, maybe sooner)Christians will be limited to expressing their views only in churches. The number of Christians are expected to fall below twenty percent of the population; and those who remain will face strict “hate” crime legislation.
See...pointing out sin...will be “hate”.
Would a lawsuit to force NPR to obey its new rules be in order? Or is there a waiver for liberal politics?
I have several names for NPR - National People’s Radio or National Politburo Radio. I listened to them recently one time and hearing the things discussed, it reeked of East Coast elitism.
There really should not be a NPR. The only reason it exists is because liberals protect it. I do not think a lawsuit would work.
Beyond time to get rid of NPR, a leftist group of misfits.
NPR aired Christian shows???? That is news to me...perhaps when Republicans get back in power they will finally have the courage to remove tax payer funding to this small club of anti American leftist elitists.
That and Car Talk.
Posted To NPR MGMT on May 2nd...
I write in opposition to your May 1st decision to label any Christian content as sectarian, thus purging free speech from your line-up…this is anti-intellectual on the part of NPR.
The NPR self-described offering provides: “Each NPR Member Station serves local listeners with a distinctive combination of national and local programming”. This is false. If you are going to be “bold” by denying Christian contributions then restate yourself by announcing that “NPR serves listeners with a distinctive combination of programming that NPR deems fit for public consumption”.
This would be in-line with Obama’s worldview that the Internet is to be dominated by the government to ensure we (i.e. U.S. Citizens) are one with Obama’s point of view.
In view of this be aware that “media reports and press stories were an essential dimension of Hitler’s popular dictatorship” (Gellately, 2002). The question becomes…are you serving true journalist integrity by allowing free speech or are you a pawn in the present administration to bolster the lie that the government knows what is best for individuals, rather than the individual.
A wise leader once said, “The time is now near at hand which most probably will determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves”. The man’s name was George Washington.
Is NPR freeing Americans, or are your working to enslave us with lies.
Backing Hitler, Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany,Robert Gellately
Of course most of the Bach cantatas would be off limits not to mention any of the great masses, vespers, te Deums, some operas with religious themes, etc. Forget Palestrina, much of Monteverdi, etc.
NPR needs to go away, or at least raise their own operating funds. It’s a waste of taxpayer dollars.
>>as opposed to rigidly adhering to any single political or religious point of view.
So when will they stop running Stale Air with Terry
Gross-Me-Out? (Ingraham’s nickname for it)
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