Posted on 03/21/2011 9:58:48 AM PDT by dbehsman
Former PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers is at it again, agitating against Republicans for daring to oppose National Public Radio subsidies. In the latest installment (with Michael Winship) on The Huffington Post, Moyers concluded with a quote illustrating "the importance of a public media whose obligation is not to a political or corporate paymaster, but to the integrity of the work and the trust of the listener." NPR, he claimed, was like Kennedy's tribute to the poet Robert Frost:
"The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state," Kennedy said. "... In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having 'nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.'"
NPR is somehow against intrusive, meddlesome government? Moyers insists that somehow public broadcasting is the only media check on the conservative movement in America. Those other private networks don't seem to be any help to liberals at all.
Republicans, we're told, are on a crusade "to feed red meat to Fox News and the partisan talk radio hosts who have turned the public airwaves -- remember, the airwaves above our fair and bountiful land belong to you, Mr. and Mrs. and Ms. America -- into a right-wing romper room."
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I thought Bill Moyers was dead. I guess brain-dead doesn’t count.
Funny stuff here. Like the joke about anyone trusting NPR.
And like art, it shouldn't be funded by the government.
B/S. NPR is just another arm of the socialist democrat party.
I wonder what kind of art was created when Moyers was involved in the wiretapping of Martin Luther King.
NPR= “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.”
Gawd these guys are full of themselves. Isn’t he the highest paid government employee?
If NPR is "artlike," should the U.S. Government also buy up Da Vinci masterpieces?
The fact that NPR is a "Left-wing Romper Room" is just gravy. The real question is: why should the Federal Government be in the domestic media business?
This guy is such a total political hack.
The fact that PBS hired this bozo is a prim example of the liberal bias on PBS.
“NPR, he claimed, was like Kennedy’s tribute to the poet Robert Frost”
However much Kennedy respected Frost, let it be remembered he did not subsidize him, so far as I know. Frost made his living as a teacher, lecturer, and writer.
I agree, NPR is like Art—the art of propaganda.
“The artist...becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state”
If NPR is the champion of the individual mind and sensibility against society and the state, then I’m the queen of England. NPR IS society and (more importantly) the state.
I watched his show a few times, this is how they talk on it.
It's so important that no-one will voluntarily pay for it.
“remember, the airwaves above our fair and bountiful land belong to you, Mr. and Mrs. and Ms. America”
These airwaves are your airwaves,
These airwaves are my airwaves,
Seems one or the other of us,
Has a false deed to these airwaves...
Pompous malodorous bloviate!
It makes me sorry I watched the series with Joseph Campbell.
I agree. It's a leech. The old masters are spinning in their graves.
... In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.
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