Bill Moyers Tries to Help NPR by Slashing Fox News and the 'Right-Wing Machine'

News Busters ^ | 11Mar 2011 | Tim Graham

[mandaladon]

If NPR wanted to establish that they’re not liberals, they probably wouldn’t send out radical left-wing ranters like Bill Moyers on their behalf. At Salon.com and at The Huffington Post, Moyers (and Michael Winship) drag out all the rhetoric about how conservatives are unloading another “fierce and often unscrupulous” attack, seeking “to extinguish the independent reporting and analysis they find so threatening to their phobic worldview.”

Just as public radio struggles against yet another assault from its long-time nemesis -- the right-wing machine that would thrill if our sole sources of information were Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and ads paid for by the Koch Brothers -- it walks into a trap perpetrated by one of the sleaziest operatives ever to climb out of a sewer.

Which part of this paragraph is sillier? Moyers ranting about the Koch brothers donating to Tea Party groups, when his Schumann Center is a sugar daddy for leftish media outlets? Or Moyers suggesting that defunding NPR would somehow silence the entire liberal media, as if every other national media outlet were just “independent reporters” too. But that’s just the way Moyers writes, like a direct-mail fundraiser, where the world’s end is just around the corner:

But for all its flaws, consider an America without public media. Consider a society where the distortions and dissembling would go unchallenged, where fact-based reporting is eliminated, and where the field is abandoned to the likes of James O'Keefe, whose "journalism" relies on lying and deceit.

[pallis]

We conservatives don’t care what kind of paranoid world view the lunatics at NPR spout, so long as we don’t have to pay for it. If their message is so important that people want to listen to it, they’ll do just fine without tax dollars.

Of course, we all know better.

[bilhosty]

What an ugly evil, hateful man!

[ozzymandus]

Get any more DUIs lately, Bill? Having this commie turd deny NPS’s leftist slant is a joke.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“If NPR wanted to establish that they’re not liberals, they probably wouldn’t send out radical left-wing ranters like Bill Moyers on their behalf. “

When are these idiots going to just drop dead? The 60’s radicals are responsible for this.

[Mustangman]

PBS and PBR can still attack Fox after they lose their government funding. They will just have to do it by competing in the market place of ideas. The same goes for their other programing.

I’m know huge PBS/NPR fan, but some of their programming is pretty good. My guess is that they’ll do fine without government money and in some cases do better than ever with some corporations and rich donors.

Going around and acting like they’ve been muzzled or ‘shut down’ is just silliness.

[nascarnation]

PBS and PBR can still attack Fox after they lose their government funding.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

This is a meltdown of Charlie Sheen proportions!

Pass the popcorn.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Wasn’t LBJ the one who got public broadcasting started?

It would be delicious to see it killed off before Bill Moyers, himself, croaks.

[TigersEye]

Without government subsidies NPR and PBS would disappear like a bad desert mirage.

[GVnana]

"James O’Keefe’s work shows that exposing media bias is as easy as buying a camera and letting it roll. But you can’t–and won’t–make the mainstream media drop that bias. They will do almost anything to preserve the dogma of political correctness and the aura of self-righteousness that surrounds the left."

NPR Is Collateral Damage in Battle to Brand Tea Party http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2011/03/11/npr-is-collateral-damage-in-battle-to-brand-tea-party/

[GVnana]

LOL!

[UnwashedPeasant]

And no more FREE broadcast licenses,