Posted on 12/10/2004 3:02:31 PM PST by Drango
Tavis Smiley's departure from National Public Radio will be a loss not only to blacks but also to all NPR listeners.
For its part, NPR issued a vague statement that is long on happy talk about Smiley helping to "jump start" its effort at reaching blacks.
Smiley's departing letter to local stations asserts that NPR has "failed to meaningfully reach out to a broad spectrum of Americans who would benefit from public radio."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Yes. Same old divisiveness and victimhood stuff. He occasionally had a substitute, whose name I don't recall, who was not bad at all.
The show on CNBC averaged 75,000 viewers a night, the television equivalent of hitting a serve at about 8 mph.
pfffft - anyone ever watch the Tavis Smiley show? His interview skills are that of a weekly, high school, television audio visual cable program. He spent 30 minutes interviewing Harrison Ford (so I thought I'd listen to old Harry expound on his libby views); 5 minutes was spent discussing politics. Tavis spent the other 25 discussing "Star Wars". This guy is the talent equivalent of Joan Rivers doing red carpet interviews.
sorry conservlib; didnt mean my post directed towards you, only in general. MEANT it only as a GENERAL post re: the article.
"I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee," says Moyers. "We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people."
I wonder if he's hitting the sauce again?
Man, I love victimization! Apparently Smiley isn't going to be heard because he is a liberal! It's the jihad against the left! This is the undertone to the leftist chant that only stupid and evil people are conservative... in which case, anything bad that happens to them must be due to a lack of comprehension or a cruel conspiracy. And now the punch line... Travis will be picked up somewhere almost instantly and continue his career without missing a beat.
His C-SPAN interview was both idiotic and entertaining (I pride myself in Liberal Schadenfreude). One of the points he made was that he was touching all cross sections of America. A quick glance at his show's website reveals every subject touched on blacks only.
I hope so. He'll now have plenty of time being drunk while stupid.
NPR has gotten better in the last few weeks. It was almost intolerably bitter after the election.
It is a great news program to listen to in the car, when doing chores (dishes) etc. when there is no TV (and thus no FOX). Besides, it is good to hear what the libs have to say. Then we can develop our own arguments. It's lucky that liberals don't do the same. They refuse to pay attention to the other side.
Tavis is trash. Buh-bye Tavis. Now I can go back to listening to NPR... hehehe did I just admit that? ;-)
Most white liberals still have a modicum of pride, and can't stand hear the trash that Smiley spewed every day. I walked into a bookstore playing his show once and he was laughing about the soldiers dying in Iraq. Not funny.
You can't be serious!!!!
"The hot topics of the nation are discussed at length on the Dianne Ream show at 10 AM. It is almost as good as the book review on C-Span2"
You won't think so, once you're old enough to shave.
He may be a victim. White libs have been running around claiming to want to fix racism in America. They're the biggest racists of all IMHO with the way they find some black toadie to be their friend and prove what enlightened people they are. I find it laughable that Al Sharpton is the 'ideal'black man and not Clarence Thomas.
Brian Lamb has decided to end Booknotes, unfortunately. I agree with you about C-Span2. It's terrific programming. I used to be an avid NPR listener but I can't take the bias anymore. I listen to recorded books in my car instead now.
Our State Radio rebroadcasts NPR shows like AllT Considered here in Australia. I remember the days when we would get bits of VOA rebroadcast here on radio... it was very contrasting flavour to the liberal-socialist-pc-prattle that is NPR and PBS (and our State Radio/TV too for that matter).
I listen into AllT Cons radio show in the van in the afternoon because I want to here what the liberal talking points du jour are. They will always bang the drum for an environment or "social jusatice" (sic) issue and I am never surprised at all. I listen in to be surprised tho - its like a listening post, its like "bugging" the left wing inteligensia. I want to know what they are thinking and that it hasn't taken a turn of some kind.
Conservative people should be thankful of the great service that these broadcasts provide. The rusted on leftists cannot do a commercially viable show because they are so radically against the mainstream flow and worldview, so to have a taxpayer funded outlet for the emotional claptrap is good. Let them get it off their chests, let them live out their delusions, let there be a safety valve to relieve their pent-up frustrations and crazy utopias... and let it be public and above the radar at all costs.
Last thing we need is for this demographic to be secretive and conspiratorial. Its healthier for the majority of normal society that Leftist activism is out of the closet.
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