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Mort Kool Aids Up!
NPR is my personal favoraite whipping boy, the sole representative for the haut-left in this country, and it deserves to die. Whether it goes quietly, or it goes loud, it must go.

EFL

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So should taxpayers, through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, continue to shell out $300 million a year to subsidize the Public Broadcasting System and its local affiliates?
No.
And should NPR and its affiliates continue to get $100 million a year from taxpayers?
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On balance, I think public radio and TV can make a good case for continued funding based on their still-unique roles in media and some pioneering new ventures that PBS has in the works for teaching reading to young children and American history to teenagers.
Wrong, Mort. Cable television has far better content than PBS in the history arena. And as the Boston gay sex guide fiasco has taught us, government goes a uniquely sloppy job in providing services where private companies can do much more and far better
But in exchange for federal support, radio and TV owe the public balance - and that is what, in the most modest and non-intrusive way, CPB's Tomlinson has been trying to install.
Wrong, again, Mort. PBS needs to go out of business entirely. The left has thrown our culture out of whack by slanting everything to their views. The only remedy is the 'death penalty.'
Specifically, believing that the PBS show "NOW," formerly hosted by Bill Moyers, was tilted to the left, Tomlinson authorized a $10,000 study of the content of the show.
Oh noooo. A study!! Censorship!!
He also provided CPB startup funding for two conservative shows, the "Journal Editorial Report," featuring the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, and "Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered."

And Tomlinson appointed two ombudsmen, liberal former broadcaster Ken Bode and conservative former Readers Digest editor William Shulz, to hear and investigate complaints about PBS and NPR accuracy and bias.

Tomlinson said that monitoring of NPR was triggered by testimony from Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) that NPR's coverage of the Middle East was persistently biased against Israel. That's a complaint often raised by others in the U.S. Jewish community.
That's nice. Isn't that nice, folks? That NPR is biased against Israel is a little like saying a roadside bomb is bad news.

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In the meantime, the question remains: Do we need PBS and NPR? No. Actually, I think, we do. You would.NPR, despite a liberal tilt on many issues, is the only radio source in America with worldwide range and penetrating depth.
A liberal tilt? Tilt? NPR gives money from institutions wioth a vested interest in stories that are being reported. That's not tilt. That is propoganda. Let the left find other funding for it propoganda
NPR itself, the producer of programming, receives only about one-tenth of its funding from the government through CPB. But local stations probably could not survive without it.
Then there is not reason not to totaly eliminate funding from NPR. Let them survive like the rest of us do.
And PBS, despite competition from other channels remains the standard for high-IQ cultural programming.
I've upped my stanards, Mort. Up yours.
And both PBS and CPB have plans for new ventures other outlets are unlikely to perform. A PBS panel headed by former Netscape CEO James Barksdale and former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt envisions major initiatives in early childhood learning, homeland security communications, public health information and local civic affairs broadcasting.
Great, then let him invest his own money into such a project

Mort musta pissed off a liberal sponsor for this ass-kissing session of his.

Posted by: badanov 2005-05-21
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=119684