When did NPR start pimping for El Presidente??

[solinvictus]

Geez, the entire staff of on site reporters were sucking up to him by describing his speech as "inspirational" "patriotic" and "stirring". Do we have no impartial media left? I mean, Daniel Schorr went after Nixon like an attack dog and Nixon is freaking FDR compared to the Chimp in Chief.

[glitch]

1. 2000.

Daniel Schorr may still be there but his spirit is gone. He spent 15 minutes trashing Clinton over vandalgate, despite absolutely no proof it happened.
I remember because it was the last time I listened to him.

[tavalon]

2. It turns out that NPR

isn't as left leaning as I once thought them to be.

[msgadget]

8. It varies

Leonard Loepate is unabashedly liberal and To the Point still presents both sides pretty evenly with the left coming out sane more times than the right. And, it's PUBLIC radio, not LIBERAL radio. :)

[Stephanie]

9. Leonard Lopate is local NYC public radio

Is he on anywhere else?

[msgadget]

10. Good point. He's available online but I don't know about everywhere.

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[sendero]

19. I'd almost settle ..

... for "middle of the road". They are Bush* apologists, plain and simple. They'll never get another dollar from me.

[Skidmore]

3. When they started taking away it's public funding

and forcing it to seek out private donors to stay operational. It's gradually becoming part of the corporate media. Notice that acknowledgements are starting to subtlely resemble ads?

[bullimiami]

4. its been well over a year since I couldnt take npr anymore

it was a gradual slackening of dissent and removal of objective counterarguments that drove me away.

npr has become just another tool of the oiligarchy

[kwolf68]

5. Talk of the Nation

Just had some guy on there saying Bushs speech was like Lincoln's inaguration speech.

LMAO...he used Freedom or liberty 35 times in 18 minutes...that is far from poetry.

[CatholicEdHead]

23. Heard parts of that

today. It was during the second hour. I had to run errands and step away from my first hour of Ed Schultz, which was MUCH better. Neil Conan was utterly disgusting today.

[Merlot]

6. A long time ago.

I used to listen to them, but noticed I was spending to much time telling the radio to STFU. I held them to higher standards, which they no longer have. They're so pathetic that I cringe when anyone says they represent the left.

[ramapo]

7. Just another bunch of media whores now

Been that way since Selection 2000. I don't listen and I sure as hell don't donate.

I confine my media consumption to AAR and Columbia University's WKCR. Here's a station that actually plays music of all types; classical, jazz, blue grass. It's much healthier than listening to all that blather.

[Tinoire]

11. Check out their funding

http://www.npr.org/about/annualreports/npr2002.pdf

It's been creeping to the right as more right-wingers start donating and Left-wingers migrate to worthier, less whoring stations.

Give it 5 years. By then it should be right up there with Clear Channel.

[jswordy]

12. Here's the timeline

1.) Got rid of Bob Edwards....dumped unceremoniously.

2.) Brought in Steve Inskeep as permanent anchor.

3.) Started moving right.

4.) Got rid of announcing times ("19 past the hour").

5.) Inskeep himself says Social Security needs fixing in an interview. Denies it when I call him on it in an email. (Til I go back on the site and quote him back to himself off Realplayer.)

6.) All this week, interviewed only Republicans. Juan Williams capped it with Karl Rove this morning.

Tah-dah! Transformation complete! I guess they'll still be getting those federal dollars from the GOP Congress now, for sure!

[Donna Zen]

13. Many good answers here:

Not just NPR

I will add that the board of directors has been replaced by the neocons. I remember when it happened a sister-in-law of someone who worked for PBS, said that Big Bird would soon be teaching the Bible. We're almost there.

Moyers gone and Tucker on board.

Anyway, after writing to point out problems with a broadcast story. (Polite and with links.)

I received and still possess an e-mail suggesting that I no longer contribute or listen to NPR again. Hey_I can take a hint.

[txaslftist]

14. When the R/W media machine started calling them 'liberal'...

...they shriveled up and joined the BSM.

[solinvictus]

16. "Fresh Air"

Today, Terry Gross had Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention on today and, try as she could, he would not include such social ills as poverty, unemployment, and such as key religious issues. He skirted the questions as much as he could.

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13

[libnnc]

17. Terry Gross is the only person I can listen to on NPR anymore

I've really noticed a change in the past 6 months or so. Honestly, I hadn't really paid much attention until I started listening to AAR. What a difference Air America has made in my life! I don't assume anything anymore. That's the problem with us today and the MSM. We assume that "journalism" is still alive. It's been dead and buried for a long while, and NPR is dead too.

NPR was my habit for years. Now I can smell their crap coming. Notice how many RW think-tank policy wonks have been on NPR in the past year or two--with no opposing points of view to balance out their stories? The corporate scum have won over NPR. Sad but true.

[solinvictus]

18. Corporate "sponsors"

Such as ADM, Monsanto, and now, Wal Mart, was the beginning of the end. All through the inauguration, they were gushing over the Chimp and every syllable he uttered.

[bobbieinok]

24. and NEVER identified as right or right wing

[JohnOneillsMemory]

20. Yesterday they did an indepth article about BEER TASTING POLLS!!

The story was about the taste-testing polls that Bud and Miller are waging against each other. You know, real news about the biggest advertiser on the coming Super Bowl TV broadcast.

It was a blatant psy-ops attempt to discredit both the 2004 election exit polls that show the theft AND the bad polling numbers for the Emperor which are going to get worse and worse. "I guess polling doesn't mean anything at all."

Scott Simon pimps the neo-con line every time on the Weekend Edition discussion with Daniel Schorr of the week's events.

He steered Schorr away from criticising Rummy for the Hillbilly Armor gaff.

Sometimes they read the letters calling him on it. I write daggers to him for his O'Reilly-like distortions.

They have been National Petroleum Radio for years.

[lancdem]

21. I think the media feels compelled to describe

every inaugural speech that way. Frankly, at least half the public didn't give a rat's ass what Bush said, me included.

[sendero]

22. Considering the FACT...

.. that what Bush** says bears absolutely no relationship to what he actually does, who could give a rat's ass.

[autorank]

25. Started 4 years ago. ***NO DONATIONS TO NPR, NONE***

STOP LISTENING, STOP GIVING