Posted on 03/09/2008 4:15:10 AM PDT by kellynla
National Public Radio listeners who tuned in to "Morning Edition" during the last four days of February found some atypical programming around 6:30 a.m. during the broadcasts.
"Conversations with Conservatives" was heard during morning-drive time with host Steve Inskeep and a conservative of the day with much on his mind.
The roster consisted of the Rev. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform; talk-radio host Glenn Beck; and David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union.
Each man had his own focus — Mr. Land addressed the status of evangelical voters; Mr. Norquist the spectrum of fiscal policies that most appealed to Republican voters; Mr. Beck with ideas about conservative core values; and Mr. Keene on challenges faced by Sen. John McCain, saying the Arizona Republican must prove to the conservative base that he is, indeed, a conservative.
NPR listeners — there are 13 million a week — were not especially pleased in the aftermath of the broadcast segments, which lasted about seven minutes each.
According to NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard, more than 60 angry e-mails and phone calls arrived at the network, calling the programming "shameful" and a "lovefest with radical, right-wing nuts." There were only a few, she said, that praised the series as "refreshing" and "articulate," among other things.
"Our basic motivation was to get a sense of where the GOP is heading, and where conservatives want to be. You can never get every viewpoint, but we wanted a sampling of opinion," Mr. Inskeep said.
"In the course of it, I learned just how carefully people were watching John McCain," he recalled.
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Bwaaaa-ha-ha-ha! There was a 30-minute segment that was conservative weighted against 23 hours and 30 minutes that was liberal, and the liberals are howling. Although NPR probably was aiming for “balance” or a larger listening audience, I guess they presume they will be exempted from any potential Fairness Doctrine legislation. And still the irony escapes the liberals completely.
I used to listen to npr on a regular basis. They lost me when all I heard from supposedly un biased reporters was liberal facts that I knew were not true. This is where the Clintons have it right, itdoesn’t matter if what you say is true, just say it first.
“According to NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard, more than 60 angry e-mails and phone calls arrived at the network, calling the programming “shameful” and a “lovefest with radical, right-wing nuts.” There were only a few, she said, that praised the series as “refreshing” and “articulate,” among other things.”
That’s because only a “few” conservatives listen to NPR.
Conservatives could e-mail the program and claim it “a lovefest with radical, left-wing nuts”, but what difference would it make?
“All Things Considered” is quite an example or perhaps an oxymoron.
Can you blame them? After so many years of being out of practice, it must hurt for them to actually think.
Let those sixty, narrow-minded leftists start their own publicly financed radio network.
NPR listeners — there are 13 million a week — were not especially pleased in the aftermath of the broadcast segments, which lasted about seven minutes each.
According to NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard, more than 60 angry e-mails and phone calls arrived at the network,
13 million listeners and only 60 calls and e mails, I am suprised.
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more than 60 angry e-mails and phone calls arrived at the network, calling the programming "shameful" and a "lovefest with radical, right-wing nuts."
NPR listeners are a bunch of whining crybabies.
I stopped listening to NPR years ago because all I ever heard was the same liberal BS day after day week after week.
For the same reason I stopped watching CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC.
Mr. Inskeep is philosophical about his vexed audience.
"We did annoy our listeners, but if we do our job right, we function as a personal intelligence agency for them. Hopefully, they hear allies and enemies and everybody in between. We have to learn from a wide range of people," he said.
Nice words I will wait and see if he follows through. I doubt that he will because NPR is dependant on contributions of its listeners for funding. He will quickly fold if the money stops coming in form listeners.
It’s too bad NPR is so leftwingy because the production quality is excellent and listening without commercials is great. With Rush, it’s a commerical every 7 minutes. Liberals don’t know how good they have it.
BTW, the fact that NPR feels compelled to give some special time to conservatives proves their bias. Deep down they know their programming leans left and needs balancing.
So WHY do our tax dollars go to keep this propaganda machine running?
What is this?
Some NPR stooge trying to make some ridiculous argument that NPR is somehow "relevant"?
That's the truth!
Kind of interesting how equal time doesn’t apply to taxpayer funded public radio...
I like “Morning Sedition” the best.
That was nice of NPR to put the conservatives on during prime time. /s
Good points in your post.
I have been listening to WBGO, a jazz/R&B, member supported station that pipes in NPR news. I had gotten to the point where I would just laugh at the things I’d hear on their brief news reports, because they were just...laughable.
But I notice over the past couple of weeks that the news seemed relatively “balanced” (for NPR) and wondered what was up with that.
If it wasnt for the outstanding music, I’d never put that station on.
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