So...

Is this what some posters would consider 'moderate'? Just trying to get my definitions straight.

nah just a nother doofus short-timer

from a lame-duck pResident

He sounds all class.

I am sure his first move will be making sure Big Bird wears pants at all time.

Meet Mr. Y

"Of course, the conservative in me wants to say we should just find the best damn performers available, and judge them on the content of their character-acting, not their color. Ultimately, I will face a situation at some point this year where I say, 'Well, X was the funniest white actor, but we should probably go with Y'."

Well then Mr. Bell, why did you take the job on the CPB?

"That boy is a P-I-G..."

...in a much truer sense than John Belushi ever was.

It's the natural extension

...of the whole "edgy, non-PC" thing. It's in fashion now. Being a dick is the new black.

Well Media Matters ?????

When are you going to start trying to protect NPR again? When the best new organisation in the USA starts playing George Bush's comments an average of 4 to 5 times every hour during Morning Edition, we've got a problem; no free thought. It may say 2006 on the calendar, but it's really 1984.

funny

this stuff just is not important. What happened to substance?

Actually

...there was a survey that indicated that people who got their news from NPR and PBS were less likely to believe things like Iraq had WMDs, Saddam was involved in 9/11.

[link to 65.109.167.118]

It's actually pretty important that some of the news media report things that are, you know, true.

survey that indicated

and those are about the only TV news channels I trust.

NPR - the only station

Living in a very red state and in a very red county, we only have NRP to listen to to get the real news. All other stations in northern Indiana play the conservative trashy junk - mostly spewed information as they see it.

We need to keep NRP on the air so that folks such as myself get some of the news that is correct!

Yeah we ought to just ignore

Rude and insulting comments against liberals. Because that worked out so well for us when we ignored Limbaugh and Coulter for so long. Not a winning strategy. Calling attention to boorish and churlish behavior is the proper tactic

I dont know

I think it is just stone throwing. Name calling and getting upset over it is playground BS. It is just rediculous how sensitive people are.

So, have you contacted the name callers

to let them know how childishly you think they are behaving?

Didn't think so.

More Wingnut Welfare

NPR has become an extension of the White House's propaganda apparatus, and I no longer listen to it -- at all. Warren Bell should be stripped of his citizenship and be deported to Cuba, North Korea or Russia, whichever nation will accept that America-hating lunatic.

It sickens me to no end that the management not only slants the news, they get out of their car to push it along, they fall over each other to trumpet the glories of Coward Bush. Further, how can NPR claim to be objective when they permit that awful, awful liar, Maura Liaison, to also work for the most loathsome news org in America, Fox?

N.P.R.

Nice Polite Republicans

...

I am extremely saddened and angered by what Bush is trying to do to my public broadcasting. Tune in to channel 1984 to watch the new Ministry of Truth station. Yay!

Crap!

It is a life goal to work for NPR and these constant attacks by the histarical right really bother me. It is not enough that they insist on continueing this "liberal media bias" line (as if "the media" were just one person, and not thousands of diffrent people who only repeat what others say). Now they have to go after colleges and NPR. IS nothing safe from this lunitics!!??

think of the children!

"A little vigilance is all it takes -- well, that and a couple hundred bucks for a TiVo. Sorry, poor people, your kids are going to be asking you awkward questions about condoms."

Oh my god what a moron. If you are a parent and feel that questions about condoms are awkward, you should kill yourself immediately and leave your child to a gay couple.

leave your child to a gay couple

Because they use condoms?

well no

just being flippant since queers are most certainly not going to have hang ups talking about sex. Certainly many straight people do not either, but this fellow is ridiculous.

The only stain...

is the one that will be left by this guy's influence on one of the few remaining mainstream media outlets with even a shred of journalistic integrity.

I do not understand ...

how progressives of any kind can stomach NPR, or more properly NBR, National Business Radio.

NPR is, and always has been a business propaganda organ. What isn't business propaganda on NPR is trivial fluff, which is almost humorous - like when they interview the person who is currently living in the apartment where some forgotten 1920's broadway songwriter lived for 4 months. Or the rants of their nerdly sports guy, who is an intolerable moron.

The crap NPR comes up with as "news" is simply incredible. How can anyone listen to that crap?!

I wonder if you feel the same about Fox News?

Being that 95% of thier "news" is misleading, dishonest crap.

ummm

Fox is beyond the pale. that doesn't mean NPR is beyond reproach - NPR is most definitely part of the whole game, in many ways it is even worse than Fox since NPR has become the de facto "liberal" news source, and plays a part in defining liberal stances on issues. In my opinion NPR is extremely right wing.

NPR is still the best alternative...

...when I'm on the road. Yes, some of the extraneous items are not of interest to me either. I also tend to tune out when their analysts, e.g., Cokie, Mara and Juan are speaking (Daniel Schorr excepted, perhaps because of his Murrow upbringing). But for free news, it beats anything else available in my area.

never ending nightmare

Two more years of this manure fire! Why can't bush just go hunting with cheney? Oh no, then shooter would be pres.. Never mind.

Public Radio and Television

The media is essentially right wing and radical. News is reported the way the owner and the advertisers want it. If you disagree you are fired. Public radio and television was for the rest of us. The stakes have become too high.

The right has to silence the center and the left. The right has to destroy public radio and television. They are working on it. The only hope for a free press is to cut it loose from government and turn it into a non-profit. It can only survive on endowment.

The right hates us with a passion. They want us kept ignorant. They hate freediom for us. They can always buy all of the freedom they want. Only the poor and the middle class have to fight for freedom.

Freedom for us is to know and to learn the truth. The right lies, twists, spins, and propagandizes. It is very difficult to discern the truth of a matter when your enemy spends hundreds of millions on polished professional liars. The fact that there are advertisements on public radio and television already leaves it suspect.

It may not be possible to save public radio and televsion. But the internet certainly does seem to be alive. Congratulations to all of you. You are doing good work you know.