Posted on 03/14/2011 1:24:27 PM PDT by Lazamataz
It just keeps happening. NPR's leadership keeps tripping over its microphone wires and then asking everybody else to plug them back in.
I know everybody thinks I must be in a vindictive mood, celebrating the sudden departure of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller after her hand-picked personal fundraiser was caught on tape disparaging Tea Party activists, Jews and taking more shots at me. I'm human and do have some thoughts but it's okay to keep them to myself.
I will not slander her in the way that she impugned my intellect and my integrity with condescending comments after my firing. She said my comments on Fox News violated journalistic ethics and should have been kept between "him and his psychiatrist or his publicist." Schiller's missteps have been very public and all too visible to the world, allowing everyone to draw their own conclusions about her.
I'm not being vindictive when I say that NPR leadership had become ingrown and arrogant to the point that they lost sight of journalism as the essential product of NPR. People like Schiller and Ellen Weiss, the head of news for NPR, who made it her life's work to fire me, came to think of themselves as smarter than anyone else. They felt no need to answer to any critic. No other point of view had any importance to them. They came to personify anti-intellectual resentment and arrogance in journalism. Any approach at variance with their own was considered traitorous and a basis for exiling them to the Gulag or in my case, firing me.
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Ummm...that would be a "Yes." and still, it doesn't always work.
Didn’t NPR claim they don’t “need” to be funded by the government?
Cut them off then.
Watch them cry.
I’ve listened to a lot of NPR just as a news junkie — it never corrupted my mind and there is a good chance your daughter may see through it as she gets older.
I started as a YAF kid for Goldwater though, who had already read and dismissed the communist manifesto at age 13, so I had a firm grasp of political realities long before the hey-day of NPR in the Watergate Hearings.
It seems to me that Juan is saying that government funded broadcasting, like commercial broadcasting, is still bottom line oriented and therefore bound to become corrupted. He still leaves in place the concept of journalism as a disassociated judge/jury in his inflation of its worth and place in culture.
I’m reminded of the new The Hills Have Eyes where the hippy dad becomes a shotgun wielding, butt kicking, name taker once his family was hurt.
Juan is right but in the end its not about their anti-intellectual arrogance, though that certainly describes them to a tee.
Funding radio and TV outlets is simply not government’s business. There is no shortage of radio and TV outlets. NPR and PBS can get their own funding. They can continue to seek foundation support, or they can sell ad time like everyone else does. We don’t need a government radio station and we don’t need a government TV station.
I’m celebrating the sudden departure of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, and the other Schiller.
I do believe my tax dollars will be no longer headed in their direction. It will take a little bit more time to get it done, but I think their days are about done sucking on the tax nipple.
I think a lot of liberal / marxist towers will be falling.
I’m celebrating the sudden departure of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, and the other Schiller.
I do believe my tax dollars will be no longer headed in their direction. It will take a little bit more time to get it done, but I think their days are about done sucking on the tax nipple.
I think a lot of liberal / marxist towers will be falling.
What do you expect?
NPR is an ivory tower. They lord over the peasants who pay for them.
If Schiller really said these things -- as he did -- does it make any difference how many other things he might have said? Did he reverse any of his problematic statements?
National Palestinian Radio gets its come-uppance.
Lord have mercy! Presumably you had some type of torture training in the Navy? I would have opened the door and jumped out--while the car was moving--by the end of the first day.
A Conservative is a Liberal mugged by Reality. Give it time.
Our local morning radio hosts claimed that the NPR guy was quoting Republican leaders calling Tea Partiers racist, which, as the hosts mentioned, is a bigger problem than NPR calling them racist.
The NPR guy may not have liked the Tea Partiers, but the incendiary phrases were quotes.
I hope not only liberals will fund NPR but conservatives as well. Give folks like O’Keefe, Giles and Lila Rose an outlet for upcoming talent in the wide world of news and talk radio.
NPR needs to lose it’s stigma of being liberal government propaganda if it’s going to survive this present storm.
No Juan we don’t think you’re crazy just too liberal.
According to this story there were issues with the editing, but it still showed the NPR execs in a very bad position.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/
We could find out for ourselves by watching the entire video.
But, if Schiller was quoting Lindsay Graham, would it surprise me? No
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