STINGER,
..
The Nightly Business Report's Paul Kangas
http://www.nbr.com/pk.html
[ Business Facts and Market Numbers ]
..
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
Well He sort-of kind-of looks-stuffy so he
might be considered "Conservative Looking"
[ Passing for a Conservative ]
{ Talking-while-Conservative }
..
NOTE: The Canadian-Born Robert MacNeil also
had that 'looks-stuffy' appearance, and Canada
does start with a "C" just like Conservative ;-}
..
i am beginning to feel better about npr already ~ RHF
..
..




..
The Best of Good Buys ~ RHF
..

I think journalism has reached such a state in America that people don't
recognize good journalism anymore.

I don't think there's any good journalism to recognize. Everything is either
op-ed or partisan advertising. Real journalism went "bye-bye" a long time ago.
Linus

In article wrRCd.23340$152.15986@trndny01,
Larry Ozarow wrote:

Telamon wrote:


Sure thing Larry.

By the way, are you selling any investor swampland or maybe pre-owned
cars or how about multi-level marketing.

You must think most people in the news group are pretty stupid.


Certainly a fair number of them are. Why don't you and RHF stretch
those mighty intellects of yours and think back to the original
post on this thread. Who is it who is carrying NPR's daily news feed?
Is it Radio Havana? Iran? North Korea? No it is the freaking United
Stated Department of Defense. Who is the bureaucrat who made that
decision ultimately accountable to? George Soros? Victor Navasky? Nope.
Donald Rumsfeld. And who are the intended audience - a bunch of Ivy
League classics professors sitting around drinking Chablis? No, you
dopes, they are a bunch of military people. A group generally more
conservative perhaps than the average, but people who are not interested
in being spoon-fed a lot of simplistic conspiracy-theory laden claptrap
by kooks and paid entertainers.

Sure, if you need simple monochromatic sloganeering
answers to life's questions, anything that deals seriously with complex
issues will look slanted toward the side opposite to whatever your side
is. For every trailer-park-living Ru****e who thinks the NY Times and
NPR are commie-loving seditionists there's an LSD-dropping communard
somewhere who thinks they are right-wing crypto-fascist tools. Both
sides are crippled marginal figures incapable of and uninterested
in making informed decisions about anything important.

What the hell does anything you wrote have to do with the liberal /
academic / elitist bias of NPR? You just wore two paragraphs full of BS.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

In article ,
Tom Betz wrote:

Offbreed wrote in news:W56dneUGYNZFoEHcRVn-
:

NPR may have had a good scare thrown in it as a result of attempts to
cut off federal dollars and Bush II being elected,

Please de-fund the CPB! It was invented by Spiro Agnew as a means of
keeping the Presidential thumb on public broadcasters. I'm sick and
tired of National Pentagon Radio and the Pentagon Broadcast System
consistently presenting the pro-war Republican party line as gospel
because some of the people running them are deathly afraid of losing the
pittance they now suck from the public teat.

The best thing that could possibly happen to NPR and PBS is the
dissolution of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Of course, then
we'd have to deal with their funding from international corporations,
which exert a similar influence... but it would be a start, anyway.

It's always nice to have the talking ass of RRS checkin on a thread.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

JD,
..
Thank God that "She" Gave me Two Ears )
..
One on the Left to Listen to NPR and KPFA in Berkeley, CA.
..
One on the Right to Listen to Rush, Dr Laura, etc.
..
And Both to Listen to the Sounds of Nature and Good Music.
..
something to think about ~ RHF
..

Telamon wrote:




What the hell does anything you wrote have to do with the liberal /
academic / elitist bias of NPR? You just wore two paragraphs full of BS.

What I wrote was meant to indicate that this thread was about AFRTS
carrying the NPR news feed. AFRTS is a part of the Defense Department,
and if NPR's news coverage is considered reasonable
and obviously even desirable, by the Defense Department, maybe
the "slant" that RHF and you see in it is a product of your own
extremist beliefs. Armed Forces Radio's audience is probably above
average in education level, but it isn't an academic elite, and I
don't think military personnel are particularly more liberal than
the country at large.

Of course maybe it's one of them there secret plots. How's the
hunt for the secret communist backers of Air America going?

DaviD - Where Are 'your' Documents ? ~ RHF
..

- Car Talk, with Click & Clack (The Tappett Brothers)
- A Prairie-Home Companion
- Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me
- The Infinite Mind
- Says You!
- Talk of the Nation - Science Friday
- The Thistle & Shamrock
- Whad'ya Know?

All of those make NPR *GREAT*!! (at least to me).

I agree, wholeheartedly!

What I could do without is their news reporting. For instance, on a
telephone interview with some correspondent in the S.Asia tsunami zone,
the
NPR interviewer asked the correspondent something along the lines of,
"What
have you seen that made you cry?"... I wished the guy over there had
responded with, "DUDE! I'm in an area that is virtually *littered* with
decaying corpses!!" But he didn't. The whole piece was typical of NPR news
pieces - focused more on emotion and opinion than facts and lightly dusted
with negative politics.

NPR news (like the majority of network news broadcasters) provides a
comfort zone for the political left that seems to prefer symbolism over
substance. But NPR's entertainment content is clearly a cut above anything
else out there.

Yes, that reporter's question was typical of NPR correspondents, however,
that's not a political matter, it doesn't indicate "left" or "right", it
indicates an effort to evoke some emotion from the person being interviewed.
And, I really don't mean to start an argument with you, jd, honest, but your
implication that the "political right" does not also prefer symbolism over
substance is pretty doggone funny.

Here you go...

''For each of the three misperceptions, the study found enormous
differences between the viewers of Fox, who held the most
misperceptions, and NPR/PBS, who held the fewest by far. Eighty
percent of Fox viewers were found to hold at least one misperception,
compared to 23 percent of NPR/PBS consumers. All the other media fell
in between.

CBS ranked right behind Fox with a 71 percent score, while CNN and NBC
tied as the best-performing commercial broadcast audience at 55
percent. Forty-seven percent of print media readers held at least one
misperception.

As to the number of misconceptions held by their audiences, Fox far
outscored all of its rivals. A whopping 45 percent of its viewers
believed all three misperceptions, while the other commercial networks
scored between 12 percent and 16 percent. Only nine percent of readers
believed all three, while only four percent of the NPR/PBS audience
did. ''

http://www.alternet.org/story/16892

Gots lots more if you like...



On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:14 -0600, "MnMikew"
wrote:


"David" wrote in message
.. .
It's well-documented that if Fox News is your primary source of
current events information you are seriously misinformed.

Then why don't you document it? What an idiotic statement.

Prairie Home Companion is not an NPR show.

On 06 Jan 2005 01:29:21 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:

On Wed 05 Jan 2005 06:05:14p, "RHF" wrote in
message ups.com:

STINGER,
.
The Nightly Business Report's Paul Kangas
http://www.nbr.com/pk.html
[ Business Facts and Market Numbers ]
.
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
Well He sort-of kind-of looks-stuffy so he
might be considered "Conservative Looking"
[ Passing for a Conservative ]
{ Talking-while-Conservative }
.
NOTE: The Canadian-Born Robert MacNeil also
had that 'looks-stuffy' appearance, and Canada
does start with a "C" just like Conservative ;-}
.
i am beginning to feel better about npr already ~ RHF


- Car Talk, with Click & Clack (The Tappett Brothers)
- A Prairie-Home Companion
- Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me
- The Infinite Mind
- Says You!
- Talk of the Nation - Science Friday
- The Thistle & Shamrock
- Whad'ya Know?

All of those make NPR *GREAT*!! (at least to me).

What I could do without is their news reporting. For instance, on a
telephone interview with some correspondent in the S.Asia tsunami zone, the
NPR interviewer asked the correspondent something along the lines of, "What
have you seen that made you cry?"... I wished the guy over there had
responded with, "DUDE! I'm in an area that is virtually *littered* with
decaying corpses!!" But he didn't. The whole piece was typical of NPR news
pieces - focused more on emotion and opinion than facts and lightly dusted
with negative politics.

NPR news (like the majority of network news broadcasters) provides a
comfort zone for the political left that seems to prefer symbolism over
substance. But NPR's entertainment content is clearly a cut above anything
else out there.

Just my opinions...

-=jd=-