Posted on 10/21/2010 2:00:15 PM PDT by Notwithstanding
Let your voice be heard. They will ask you what country you are calling from - why not imagine you are an American civilian working in an embassy somewhere who is listening on a satellite radio. You may want to dial *67 before you dial (to disallow caller ID). YOu can tell them that your number is a VOIP number if they are curious why you have a US area code.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Talk of the Nation (presumably the USA)
has a special line for overseas listeners.
How nice. Wonder who pays for this line?
If taxpayers are paying for it, we might as well use it.
By the way, this line is NOT for AFM listeners alone. It is most often used by foreigners in foreign countries, as the internationalist hosts always love to play it up when someone uses the overseas line, and it is almost never a native of the US.
Here is a npr comment line that no one is answering. 202-513-3232
Secret numbers published only for overseas callers to these NPR call-in shows:
Diane Rehm Show 202-537-7872, Weekdays 10-11am ET
On Point, 617-353-0645, Weekdays 1-2pm ET
Talk of the Nation, 202-513-3305, Weekdays 2-4pm ET
Almost all Embassies have VoIP trunks now, usually with 202 or 301 area codes, to save money so that is a perfectly plausible explanation.
"Well, it used to be the United States, but it doesn't feel like it now."
Sad but true.
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Great. I did the same. But I called the local news director, too, and had her back against the wall. Her scripted response was not relevant to my call. And she pretended that the totenberg thing was just an internet rumor that she would have to verify on Snopes (as if that is anything better than wikipedia). I sent her and 12 staffers at the local station an email with a link to the youtube video and other links.
I also got the “well, we are not NPR, we are ____ the local public station” - to which I rsponded “The listener considers you all the same - you air NPR programming all day, so you are NPR - and I will no longer listen or donate.”
LOL. NOt really.
Keep this kind of information coming, it is invaluable.
Here's a fun guerilla reporting project: Talk to a few dozen NPR employers and get them to respond in the same way , then go public with the story and ask Schiller if she's going to fire the folks, since "bigotry in the workplace" is not allowed at NPR..
They got reamed by something like 1,000 telephone calls an hour from every state in the Union, and had to rescind their jackass order about two days later. Remember anyone?
When we rise up, and in a united fashion, we can wreak havoc and make the libs drop their pitchforks and run with their pointed tails between their legs.
Ping me and or count me in. Time to fight back and take our country back using the same tactics the left uses.
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