Can we pledge to stick it to NPR?

[Hep]

Is NPR really scared of losing it's funding from conservatives? Is that why I hear more and more garbage coming through my radio? I don't know, but if losing funding is what they fear, maybe an organized effort against their fund raising efforts will resonate.

We could have a sponsor DU INSTEAD of NPR pledge drive.

One problem, and I don't know if anyone has noticed this before. But the abbreviation for Democratic Underground Message Board is, uh, DUMB. We can't use that. But we can figure something out.

[montanacowboy]

1. I find myself

turning NPR off more and more often - I used to listen to it all the time, but now I can hardly stomach the crap I hear coming from it. There really is not anywhere that the conservative agenda has not taken priority, even CSPAN is hard to watch.

I did not pledge any $$ to NPR's just finished campaign for green this time.

[Hep]

2. I've always refused to give

because of their stance on low power FM and college radio.

[The_Gopher]

3. great idea! let's screw NPR because they aren't as far left as we'd like!

[sendero]

10. they are not...

...left AT ALL, but the right still claims they are - an effective stragegy for moving everything to the right IMHO.

Screw NPR, they are no better than CNN, and only a little better than FOX. I'm supposed to support that financially? I did for 17 years but no more.

[gWbush is Mabus]

4. unfortunately, the moderate NPR is the most librul media we have right now

i would not recommend boycotting them

[creativelcro]

16. I second that

"i would not recommend boycotting them"

[Zero Gravitas]

5. I don't understand the NPR bashing here

sure they're not apologists/boosters for progressives or the Democratic Party... maybe their being a legitimate news gathering oganization has something to do with that... They are 1,000,000 times better than any of the Corporate Media News outlets.

[Hep]

9. A wolf in sheeps clothing

I don't see how they're better at all. I enjoy their entertainment, but their news is wack.

[sendero]

11. ok...

... so they are not boosters for the Dems but they absolutely are boosters for the war and for the repukes, and you think this is ok.

Throw your money down a piss hole if you want, I'm not paying for propaganda. If they even made an attempt at balance I would consider supporting them, but they do not.

You'll hear 4 essays from Cato, the AEI, the Heritage Foundation, the National Review for every 1 you hear from the liberal viewpoint. And when you do hear the liberal viewpoint, it is generally from someone whose skills at advocating our side are lame at best.

Screw NPR. They are not part of the solution any more.

[Zero Gravitas]

15. disagree

I don't think they are boosters for the war or for the Repiglicans at all. What do they do that you consider to be pro-war boosterism?

[indigo32]

6. I am NOT boycotting NPR

end of story.

[quinnox]

7. Yea, DU will start its own nationwide radio

network, it will be easy!

[sendero]

13. what does that have to do with anything?

... you act as tho they are "good enough" and we should settle for that. I'd prefer to put my dollars into something that will promote my ideals. Let the pukes pay for their own damn propaganda.

[Nlighten1]

8. NPR has a problem with parity.

The consistently give a platform to the most conservative and evil right-wing liars, i.e. The Heritage Foundation etc but when was the last time someone like Noam Chomsky was on NPR? Every day you can hear a representative from the radical right spew their spleen on NPR but who from the radical left counter acts their drivel? No one that is who.

[sendero]

12. Exactly....

... I wonder if some of these folks are even listening to them. Sometimes I think they have a time-warp radio and are hearing them from 10 years ago. Because they have sold out completely and utterly at this point.

[mrgorth]

14. I honestly think NPR tries to be fair

They're the best thing out there right now. If they have the HF on, let 'em know you don't like it. Maybe they're not a mouthpiece of the left but it's all we have for now.