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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:35 PM
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NPR - infiltrated by right wingnuts? Racist?
I just read this in another thread. This is total news to me. I watch a lot of NPR - News Hour, Washington Week in Review, Bill Moyers, etc. I have never found anything that would indicate to me that NPR had become a right wing, racist tool.

So I thought I would turn to some of you media experts. Am I missing something?
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:37 PM
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1. Juan Williams, fox toady and NPR "corespondent".
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:40 PM
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3. He was with NPR for a long time before he started working for FOX.
I am not sure what his deal is, but I hardly ever hear him on NPR anymore. I know he did a pretty negative OP for the NYT last week regarding Obama and race, but that is the first negative I had heard about him.

I am clearly confused.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:39 PM
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2. You're watching PBS
NPR is the radio programming you hear on college stations in the morning.

They were taken over by neocons, wingnuts, racists, and religious screwballs a couple of years after Stupid stole the presidency.

I gave up on them about 3 years ago when Stupid was flogging his destruction of social security plan. I had them on the clock radio and it was one winger after another explaining to NPR morons what a great idea it was to put social security into the stock market, ending up with that pool of slug slime Ken Mehlman. That was it. It was a particularly nasty way to wake up.

It's been on a mariachi station since then. It wakes me up without putting me into a sour mood for the whole day.
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:42 PM
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4. You are totally right.
I also listen to a lot of NPR - Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Terri Gross. Even though I appear to be a total idiot by confusing NPR and PBS, I have the same question. I don't find it anything but liberal and pro-Democratic Party. have I been brainwashed.
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Buck Laser Donating Member (566 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:44 PM
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Juan Williams is occasionally on NPR...
After Obama is elected, I think we can hope to see both NPR and PBS return to more objective reporting. A great many fools got appointed to policy making posts during the Bush years.
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:51 PM
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8. it's especially noticable for me, I started listening to Morning Sedition on AAR from day one,
stayed with the young turks, but have had to go back to npr in the morning since they bailed. Not what it used to be.
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Sundoggy Donating Member (489 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:44 PM
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5. Good Lord, where have you been?
It's been going on for years!
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:49 PM
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6. Well, I listen to it for most of the day.
And I am very liberal, radical in some areas. I just don't hear any conservative bias. I find it much more acceptable than anything I have ever seen on heard on regular or cable television.

Could it be that a lot of liberals and progressives turned it off a few years ago and haven't turned it back on?
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:54 PM
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10. Try Stephanie Miller and Thom Hartman. you won't go back.
Edited on Wed Jun-11-08 05:56 PM by corkhead
what has happened to NPR will become more apparent.
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 06:02 PM
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13. Ok, I will check it out.
Are they on Air America? We don't get that station a lot of the time, but I will try and podcast it or something.
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 07:36 PM
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17. this blog has an excellent comprehensive list of what is available in progressive radio
http://ltradio.blogspot.com/

Air America has Thom Hartman at noon, and Stephanie Miller is on some other network. I stream them both daily for that 6 hour block.
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Qutzupalotl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:49 PM
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7. They often have wingnut Cokie Roberts offering her opinions about Democrats
Edited on Wed Jun-11-08 06:47 PM by Qutzupalotl
and she HATES Democrats.

Mara Liasson is not much better. Tries to be objective, but focuses on the negatives when it comes to Democrats.

Both Juan Williams and Mara Liasson cave when they appear on FOX. They concede points they should not concede out of a misguided need to get along.
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:57 PM
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11. Cokie Roberts? Lindy Boggs daughter?
I would say she is a moderate Democrat, but I have never heard her described as a Democrat hater. She mostly does legal pieces.

I know that Juan Williams and Mara Liasson have begun working for FOX and I'm not sure what to make of that.

Do you listen to things like "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" or "Talk of the Nation"? Right wing? I don't think so.

Is this an idea unique to DU?
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Qutzupalotl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 06:45 PM
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16. A lot of people think she's a Democrat because of her parents.
Maybe she used to be. But if you listen to what she says, she never criticizes Republicans, only Democrats, and that unfairly. She lacks objectivity, yet they put her on the morning after each Democratic debate to tell us what our candidates did wrong and how none of them can win.

I was referring to NPR news coverage, Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:58 PM
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12. I gave up listening to NPR mostly due to Kokie Roberts' stupidity
in the early 1990s. Kokie Roberts supports banning abortion. She used to report on the Supreme Court, and her reporting was so snooty I just could not stand it.
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 06:09 PM
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14. She's pro-choice and, as a Catholic, has taken a lot of heat for it.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/brown/060329
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/may/07050704.html

I am getting more confused by the minute.

Did the RW convince the populace that NPR was in their pocket or something?
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 07:40 PM
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18. are you sure you aren't talking about Nina Totenberg?
Cokie has definately shifted right over the last 20 years, though.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 01:20 AM
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20. You are right. I don't listen and it has been a long time.
I don't like either of them, Cokie or Nina
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 05:53 PM
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9. sometimes it's so bad i have to turn it off
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 06:29 PM
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15. cbc too...
the neopigs want everyone to think it just happened, the way crap emerges from oreilly or coulter, the famed bush assholes, naturally -but the rightwing schemed over it a long time, and in fantastic detail to achieve this end: ie Corrupt the newsmedia (which, ideally, 'afflicts the comfortable, and comforts the afflicted' as the saintly Che once put it)...since regan was foisted upon the people the same pattern we saw in Jolly Olde (England) under lordy thatcher secretly became US gov policy, and public broadcasting became defunded. Canada too, when lyin mulroney (a petty thief who accepted bags o cash from karl schreiber, while still in office!) took office in '83, he immediately began cutting the budget to CBC. TOO bad noone like Mike Moore could look hard at this 800 pound gorilla which reactionarky governments almost require in order to exist- a corrupted newsmedia which pretends its rightwing biased viewpoint is the common viewpoint! foxnews is a perversion, and perversions develop secretly, prosper in hypocrisy, and in the end make the entire organism (society)sick....
One good thing we all must never forget. When concerned citizens raise hell about some affront to morality, not their or their kids, but the 'larger' society, we can show them foxnews/cnn etc and say 'why didn't that perversion of morality bug you all those years? the only people who complained were the lib/leftist hippies etc!'
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sandyd921 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 09:02 PM
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19. I gave up on them when they started censoring Daniel Schorr
on his regular Sunday morning spot. They wouldn't let him on by himself to do his regular opinion pieces. Changed it to question and answer with some other NPR toady correspondent asking him questions. That was sometime around 2003 or 2004. I'm now a regular listener of progressive radio (e.g., Thom Hartmann, Mike Malloy, Rachel Maddow, etc.) on the Internet. I rarely listen to NPR anymore.
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MinM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-21-08 12:31 PM
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21. Scott Simon
Scott Simon seems to have the task of being Schorr's media minder on his Saturday morning show. Which is really a shame since back in the eighties Scott Simon did some excellent reporting on the right wing death squads operating in Central America.

Somewhere along the line though Mr. Simon took a hard right-hand turn in his reporting. Scott has been a Bush apologist since Dubya was appointed President, and bashes Democrats every chance he gets. Like today when he bashed Obama for having the audacity to suggest that the right would use the Race-Card.
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