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NPR on Shortwave Schedule & Freqs
RM390,
.. So USofA Military Personal and their Families are forced to Listen to 18 Hours a Day of Liberal Propaganda from NPR ;-{ .. Plus they are 'limited' to only One Hour of Rush a Day ;-{ .. NPR =X= Fair and Balance - NOT ! .. so say i - my opinions stated as facts ~ RHF .. |
RHF wrote: RM390, . So USofA Military Personal and their Families are forced to Listen to 18 Hours a Day of Liberal Propaganda from NPR ;-{ . Plus they are 'limited' to only One Hour of Rush a Day ;-{ . NPR =X= Fair and Balance - NOT ! . so say i - my opinions stated as facts ~ RHF . It's mostly just Morning Edition and All Things Considered, hardly 18 hours a day, and if you took the time to listen to them instead of just parroting what you hear on right-wing talk radio, you would realize they ARE balanced. Almost always have spokesmen from both sides of a political issue, and have interviews and features on Repubs just as often as Dems. They're also carrying Car Talk. You got a problem with that too? |
LO,
It is obvious that you simply do not hear or recognize the 'slant' that NPR inparts to the news and information that is presented. .. ~ RHF .. |
RHF wrote: LO, It is obvious that you simply do not hear or recognize the 'slant' that NPR inparts to the news and information that is presented. . ~ RHF . In the broader sense no one can easily recognize slant as such when they hear it if it agrees with their prejudices, but NPR news programming is very careful to present both sides of issues when there is controversy. Their affiliate stations have to support themselves in "red" states as well as "blue" states and NPR still receives considerable federal funding, which in the current political climate requires that they be pretty scrupulous about exhibiting bias. If you're so sure, why don't you give some examples? And not that silly thing about how they don't refer to Dubya as "President" Bush. You asserted that a ways back and it's a load of hooey. I've heard interviews on NPR with such as Hastert, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Perle among others and the interviews were respectful and non-confrontational. They DO report on dissenting opinion as well, but that's what balance requires. The problem is more likely that your worldview is so skewed to the right and so infected by verkrampt talk-radio that actual balanced reporting sounds like left-wing extremism to you. |
Larry Ozarow wrote:
It's mostly just Morning Edition and All Things Considered, hardly 18 hours a day, and if you took the time to listen to them instead of just parroting what you hear on right-wing talk radio, you would realize they ARE balanced. You should realize that if you think they are balanced, then you believe Karl Marx was a redneck ultra-rightwing fascist and you celebrate Revolution Day on May 1. -- The state religion of the USA is atheism, as established by the courts. |
In article O_GCd.32929$Ff3.16636@trndny04,
Larry Ozarow wrote: RHF wrote: LO, It is obvious that you simply do not hear or recognize the 'slant' that NPR inparts to the news and information that is presented. . ~ RHF . In the broader sense no one can easily recognize slant as such when they hear it if it agrees with their prejudices, but NPR news programming is very careful to present both sides of issues when there is controversy. Snip 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. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
LO,
.. There is 'slant' and There Is "SLANT" ! .. I may not know 'slant' when I see it :-{ .. But, I Know "SLANT" When I Hear It ;-} .. Slant is is the Mind of the Listener. [ We Know What We Hear - Like It or Not ! ] .. NPR's 'slant' is using a so called Moderate Speaker and a Liberal Speaker to give two 'Enlightened" Points-of-View. .. Mostly on NPR the True Conservative Voice is Never Heard [.] .. ABOUT THE STATUS OF RED AND 'blue' AMERICA Point-of-Fact: Beyond the Red and Blue States there are the Red Counties and Blue Counties that make up every part of America. AMERICA IS RED = http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000792.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic.../countymap.htm .. so say i - my opinions stated as facts ~ RHF .. .. |
larry, Larry. LARRY !
.. "The problem is more likely that your worldview is so skewed to the right and so infected by verkrampt talk-radio that actual balanced reporting sounds like left-wing extremism to you." .. See here you go . . . On the 'personal' Attack ;-{ .. When Ever 'you' Do This - "Go On The 'personal' Attack" ;-{ .. 'you' LOSE -&- I Win :o) .. Good People Can Disagree About Important Issues and have Respect for each other, and remain Friends. - - - President George "W" Bush .. something to think about ~ RHF .. .. |
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. |
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. I would venture a guess that there are more trailer park living liberals than there are trailer park living 'Ru****es'. Most 'Ru****es' are better educated folks... it's a fact. dxAce Michigan USA |
dxAce wrote: I would venture a guess that there are more trailer park living liberals than there are trailer park living 'Ru****es'. Most 'Ru****es' are better educated folks... it's a fact. Poetic license, Steve. |
RHF wrote: NPR's 'slant' is using a so called Moderate Speaker and a Liberal Speaker to give two 'Enlightened" Points-of-View. . Mostly on NPR the True Conservative Voice is Never Heard [.] . Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Perle are moderates? Yeah, right. |
Larry Ozarow wrote: dxAce wrote: I would venture a guess that there are more trailer park living liberals than there are trailer park living 'Ru****es'. Most 'Ru****es' are better educated folks... it's a fact. Poetic license, Steve. Best look for a publisher. ;-) dxAce Michigan USA |
It's well-documented that if Fox News is your primary source of
current events information you are seriously misinformed. On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:19:15 GMT, Telamon wrote: In article O_GCd.32929$Ff3.16636@trndny04, Larry Ozarow wrote: RHF wrote: LO, It is obvious that you simply do not hear or recognize the 'slant' that NPR inparts to the news and information that is presented. . ~ RHF . In the broader sense no one can easily recognize slant as such when they hear it if it agrees with their prejudices, but NPR news programming is very careful to present both sides of issues when there is controversy. Snip 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. |
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Rush appeals to people who
''think'' they're smart. On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 07:59:27 -0500, dxAce wrote: 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. I would venture a guess that there are more trailer park living liberals than there are trailer park living 'Ru****es'. Most 'Ru****es' are better educated folks... it's a fact. dxAce Michigan USA |
You wouldn't recognize a ''True Conservative'' if you tripped over
one. On 4 Jan 2005 20:24:51 -0800, "RHF" wrote: LO, . There is 'slant' and There Is "SLANT" ! . I may not know 'slant' when I see it :-{ . But, I Know "SLANT" When I Hear It ;-} . Slant is is the Mind of the Listener. [ We Know What We Hear - Like It or Not ! ] . NPR's 'slant' is using a so called Moderate Speaker and a Liberal Speaker to give two 'Enlightened" Points-of-View. . Mostly on NPR the True Conservative Voice is Never Heard [.] . ABOUT THE STATUS OF RED AND 'blue' AMERICA Point-of-Fact: Beyond the Red and Blue States there are the Red Counties and Blue Counties that make up every part of America. AMERICA IS RED = http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000792.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic.../countymap.htm . so say i - my opinions stated as facts ~ RHF . . |
David wrote: You wouldn't recognize a ''True Conservative'' if you tripped over one. You wouldn't recognise your medications if you tripped over them. dxAce Michigan USA |
LO,
.. These are 'members' of the "Government" and their Appearances in the Media are Performed as a 'function' of their Public Office. .. i know what i know -&- what i don't know is unknown ~ RHF .. |
BR,
.. NPR is very good at 'presenting' "Selected" Information that they 'feel' is "News" for their Target Audiance*. .. * Progressive {Liberal} and Enlightened {Educated} Citizens .. ~ RHF .. |
Brian Running wrote:
NPR is the only source of news in the US today that presents a broad perspective, and takes care to present all sides of an issue. What is the NPR stance on the .50BMG law passed in California recently? 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, I'll have to start listening to it again and see. I think journalism has reached such a state in America that people don't recognize good journalism anymore. True, especially considering that the majority of the population has only had access to TV showing news from CBS, NBC, ABC, and radio stations that use Rueters, AP, and UPI news feeds. They want everything presented to them with a slant, so it's safe and appealing to them, whatever their particular position on the political spectrum. Oh, yes. That's true. It certainly explains why so many people are starting to ignore the MSM, switching to the internet and talk radio for their news. The MSM is too far left to suit them. IMO, most do not realize why they feel a vague sense of disatisfaction with the news, and why they change channels or put on a DVD when only the news is on. They realize it when they find the alternatives. |
People who have avoided the Mind****ers' brainwashing.
On 5 Jan 2005 09:35:19 -0800, "RHF" wrote: BR, . NPR is very good at 'presenting' "Selected" Information that they 'feel' is "News" for their Target Audiance*. . * Progressive {Liberal} and Enlightened {Educated} Citizens . ~ RHF . |
David wrote: We have entered Bizarro World. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. And 'tardism is 'tardism. You are mentally ill. dxAce Michigan USA |
dxAce writes:
Brian Running wrote: I think journalism has reached such a state in America that people don't recognize good journalism anymore. They want everything presented to them with a slant, so it's safe and appealing to them, whatever their particular position on the political spectrum. Unfortunately, NPR is not good journalism. Any, and I repeat, any, discerning individual can hear that. Many must have their blinders on. (This is probably a very foolish moment to delurk, but I am after all very foolish.) Hello, everyone! I just got a Morphy Richards 27007 (apparently the new branding of the former Radio Shack Self-Powered model) for Christmas, which presumably guarantees me last place in any gearhead credibility contests, and I've been having lots of fun scouring the ether for shortwave programmes from central and eastern Europe. (I'm in the UK.) I must say I was surprised by Radio Ukraine's open and vigorous backing of the recent semi-revolution there, and Radios Romania, Hungary and Slovakia also have all also been following agendas not that out of line with my decadent western European liberal sympathies. I'm not entirely sold on the Voice of Russia, mind. But all that and this thread prompts me to ask: what would various persons here suggest as models of excellence in shortwave journalism? Des can't get the BBC World Service, hilariously |
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 Excellent ironic humor! because some of the people running them are deathly afraid of losing the pittance they now suck from the public teat. (shrug) That makes them different, how? 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. If you want freedom on the airwaves, push for a return to the rules that allowed the micro powered local stations, like the college and high school stations. Those rules were changed to allow the CPUSA backed CPB/NPR/PBS to gain centralized control of the alternative news channels. Control through NEA was not enough. Of course, the internet is making that a moot questions. So long as Hillary does not get her way. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,10230,00.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1998/02/22/BUSINESS904.dtl So many "liberals" are like teenage rebels. They talk about freedom, but mean they want freedom to do what they want, and that means slavery for everyone else. |
"David" wrote in message ... A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Rush appeals to people who ''think'' they're smart. Just as Al Franken appeals to people who don't think. |
"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. |
"David" wrote in message ... You wouldn't recognize a ''True Conservative'' if you tripped over one. And you would? |
DaviD,
.. Obviously 'you' Have Not . . . .. As Evidenced By the Choice of 'your' Language. .. When the Dreamer "Sees-the-Dream" - It is a Dream. .. When the Dreamer "Feels-the-Dream" - It is an Illusion. .. When the Dreamer "Lives-the-Dream" - It is an Delusion ! .. DaviD - dream on, Dream On. DREAM ON ! ~ RHF .. .. |
What a crock! Fox reported it EXACTLY the same way.
That may be -- let me re-phrase: NPR was the only news source that I was aware of that reported it that way. But, the point remains the same, that if NPR had such a serious left-wing slant, I don't believe it would have presented the story in the way it did, which struck me as very fair. And, as you pointed out, it reported the story the same way that Fox did, which also seems to discredit the notion that NPR is purely left-biased. I wish NPR bashers would actually listen before judging. I'll say this about NPR, though -- Daniel Schorr's editorials just drive me over the edge. He is clearly far-left in his opinions, and proud to slant his comments severely. But, it's editorial, not reporting, and even though I disagree with him most of the time, any news source will have editorials. It's important to hear a wide range of opinions before forming your own. |
As for NPR presenting both sides of the political spectrum, I can think of
some liberal (Nina Totenberg, Mara Liasson, Daniel Schorr, etc. ) or ultra-liberal (Bill Moyers) reporters with NPR -- exactly who do you say is presenting the conservative point of view there? That's the point, Stinger. When news is presented on NPR, it isn't presented with respect to a point of view. The facts are reported, completely and in depth. I agree that when there are editorials, in particular, Daniel Schorr's, they are generally of a liberal nature. Daniel Schorr usually gets me to shout at the radio a few times each week. But, when it comes to widespread, general coverage of topics that are truly important both domestically and internationally, no one covers them better than NPR. My own feeling is that I don't need anyone's editorial comment, period, and I wish they'd do away with them in all the media. Other major-media outlets in the US are mainly editorial; in my opinion, NPR is the least editorialized news source there is. There doesn't need to be a presentation of a liberal or conservative point of view -- and I find NPR to be refreshingly free of it, for the most part. News programs that present the news in the context of a shouting match between ideological opponents are absolutely the lowest form of journalism that exists. |
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 |
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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 :o) .. 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=- |
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