Earful of Bias from NPR?

Creators Syndicate ^ | Tuesday November 5, 2002 | Mona Charen

[goldstategop]

Well there were those acclaimed series on the Civil War and Baseball. At least every now and then PBS does produce monuments of excellence in the programming wasteland called television. NPR is a whole 'nother ball game.

[tonyinv]

A better idea would be to take over NPR and PBS and turn the ship around. PBS reaches alot of kids, the liberal left has been using those TV hours to stuff the kids' mushy brains with socialist propaganda. I say take it back and go the other way, start talking about capitalism, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the Law.

You'll never get Congress to defund PBS totally, it's become an untouchable institution. Use it to the advantage of the country and our kids' futures. Isn't that what it was supposed to be in the first place?

[CPT Clay]

Cut off their federal funding.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I listen to NPR every night while driving home from work.

Mistake number one.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

We have a republican congress and a republican president.

It's time to defund NPR and PBS.

Let their affluent, Volvo driving liberal fans support them fully, without taxpayer subsidies, the way we conservatives support Rush.

We'll see how long they last in the marketplace of ideas.

[gura]

But only 100 Union airline security screeners!

[MadIvan]

NPR's bias even extends to musicians, which I've latterly discovered. I built and run a site regarding the soprano Renee Fleming: what is surprising is how "dirty" NPR finds her commercial success. It is as if in order to be considered a genuine artist, one must somehow be starving, unsuccessful, or a Communist.

Pull the plug, please.

Regards, Ivan

[LynnHam]

We have a republican congress and a republican president. It's time to defund NPR and PBS

I say let them keep the funding for these organizations Just take over the management and change it to all conservatives!!!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Redeeming the incorrigible is a mistake. In the first place, it isn't within the purview of government to be involved in kid friendly programming, news, or related entertainment. Unplug their sorry carnival and let them raise funds with a monkey, tin-cups and organ grinders like every other side show.

Nope, the only route is to pull the plug.

As far as the idea of allowing equal time for conservatives...again, a losing proposition. That was tried and failed. If it were resurrected, many stations around the country offering soild conservative programing would be inundated with the federal demand to provide 'alternative' programming. Again, bad wrong too.

Nope, the only route is to pull the plug.

Say good by to Auto (maton)-talk, (Junk)Science Friday, All Things (Communistic) Considered, The Splendid Table (where you pick up the tab), Lake Woejuststarting, Daniel Schorr's Re-education Corner, Talk of the Nation (the Soviet Nation, that is) and all of the other first rate programs you'll probably find elsewhere if they really are, indeed, as popular as they claim.

[leadhead]

Correctomundo!

If a program has any value, one of the cable channels will fund and broadcast it.
NPR was a 60s solution to the dying AM music & FM jazz situation. PBS was a UHF solution to a 13 channel world.

Both out of date.

Unplug 'em