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 GOP Fails to Kill NPR’s Public FundingPosted on Nov 18, 2010
Republican Rep. Eric Cantor was one of the GOP operatives behind this week’s push to cut public funding to National Public Radio (this Juan Williams drama still has legs) because that would be a “common sense” move to “get America back to opportunity, responsibility and success.” But Cantor’s effort, along with that of fellow Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx, didn’t yield the desired results, as House Democrats shut down the debate before it got to the voting stage on Thursday. Here’s Cantor making his case, followed by Foxx, before the GOP campaign was summarily and legislatively dismissed. —KA The Huffington Post: Advertisement TAGS:
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By Potent_Placebo, November 19, 2010 at 11:41 pm Link to this comment
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If you still listen over the traditional airways and
Report thisyou live in the deep dark south you can either listen
to NPR or you can listen to conservative hate radio.
So what you gonna do if there is no NPR? Go freaking
nuts?
By GoyToy, November 19, 2010 at 10:31 am Link to this comment
NPR/PBS—good riddance. You’ve mostly to look to the Net to dig out alternate points of view.
Report thisBy Jimnp72, November 18, 2010 at 8:54 pm Link to this comment
yes npr and pbs now suck republican; but it is symptomatic of how the repugs
Report thiswant to move the country forward, while they vote down extending benefits for the
unemployed and vote up extending tax cuts for the super rich
the repubs have become the cheesy,shallow, petty, childish evil villians that
batman and robin used to battle.
By entropy2, November 18, 2010 at 7:48 pm Link to this comment
@worm - true! I’ve become more and more disgusted of late with their blatant corporate/security-state bias. Lobbing softballs to Republicans seems to be the closest they can get to hard-hitting journalism.
The state giveth and the state taketh away.
No major loss.
Report thisBy FRTothus, November 18, 2010 at 5:36 pm Link to this comment
Funding for National Petroleum Radio SHOULD be cut.
“NPR and PBS at a national level tend to provide a bland variant of mainstream and conventional journalism, comparable to what’s on the commercial networks, especially on highly sensitive matters such as the economy and the U.S. role in the world. Public broadcasting is so obsessed with conservative criticism, even more than commercial news media journalists are, that it bends over backwards to appease the Right and appear “balanced.”
(Robert McChesney)
“In a media universe where you’re likely to find right-wing conservatives on ABC, Fox, or NPR, the facts don’t matter; only the framing. And in the hands of biased pundits posing as objective journalists, the framing is always going to be the same: pro-military, pro-government, and pro-war.”
Report this(David Potorti)
By the worm, November 18, 2010 at 5:12 pm Link to this comment
The problem NPR is going to face is that it has already become so right wing that
its main stream and liberal supporters are not going to go to bat for it.
There will be some higher income ‘liberals’ who like ‘drive way moments’, but most
people who once listened for news have gone else where, and the ones left are
listening for warm fuzzies.
Most NPR ‘experts’ are funded directly by right wing propaganda houses, and NPR
simply gives them a megaphone.
I think NPR will have a hard time battling this in the years to come. Likely, they will
Report thisrespond by becoming more right leaning, and then who really cares.