Uh Oh! The management at NPR must have left early for the long weekend...

[hootinholler]

Let's some some DU love for this most excelent rant that ended tonight's Marketplace!

WHoo hoo! It aired during one of the busiest evening drive times in the year.

-Hoot

[villager]

1. wow! Just read it, thanks....

Guess when the NPR bosses are back from the weekend at the Cape, they may have to shoot him a memo...

[magellan]

2. Wow, the finish was fantastic

"It's time for you people in the media, even though you are owned by huge corporations which tend to be... let me think... conservative, to quit bending over backwards to prove you are not liberal by refusing to be accurate and/or relevant. Being accurate does not mean you are liberal. Being accurate just means you're not stabbing democracy in the back."

[Robbien]

3. The closing is just perfect

It's time for you people in the media, even though you are owned by huge corporations which tend to be... let me think... conservative, to quit bending over backwards to prove you are not liberal by refusing to be accurate and/or relevant. Being accurate does not mean you are liberal. Being accurate just means you're not stabbing democracy in the back.

But if you're afraid to be accurate and/or relevant, then I, Tim Bedore, confess to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. If you fly me somewhere in first class, I'll tell you all about it.

If NPR put on more commentary such as this, they wouldn't keep losing their audience.

[ikojo]

25. I've not listened to NPR since 2003 and their

constant cheerleading for the Iraq war. One of my friends says they have turned around but I don't believe it.

[Robbien]

29. It hasn't turned around in my market

It isn't as bad as FauxNews, but it is a very clearly GOP leaning station.

[liberalhistorian]

38. Actually, I think the SD stations are

much more liberal than you might imagine, and I've enjoyed listening to it since I've moved to this state. It's actually far more liberal than the damned Ohio NPR stations.

[faithnotgreed]

4. that is great - hope he gets some love from du/dailykos etc

like KO deservedly got for his righteous rant

npr has been awful for some time so i hope they get some positive feedback for tim

[hootinholler]

5. Four, Count 'em Four posts saying how great this is...

And no Freakin recs?

We need to share this.

-Hoot

[Robbien]

11. Whoops. . Recommended. Yes, It is indeed recommend worthy. n/t

[sendero]

6. I heard that...

... I couldn't believe my ears!

[hootinholler]

7. That's why I went back to the website!

I had a very similar experience. There seemed to be a "we're gonna pay for this one" tone to his voice.

-Hoot

[Radio_Lady]

20. Thanks for the link. I was at Oregon Public Broadcasting today, but

missed that segment. Appreciate the link...

http://www.opb.org/programs/program.php?id=13

[hootinholler]

21. Aw, shucks! n/t

[Hamlette]

8. kick, and recommended, great find. n/t

[CatholicEdHead]

9. Marketplace is American Public Media, not NPR

there is a differance. APM is the national syndication arm of Minnesota Public Radio. MPR via APM distributes as much if not more content to public radio stations versus NPR.

This editorial independence comes via Minneapolis.

[hootinholler]

13. Thanks!

I heard it on an NPR station WAMU is local to me. It's right at the top of their page too.

Apologies to APM!

-Hoot

[ms liberty]

10. K&R - awesome! and true, too! n/t

[bleever]

12. Thanks, hoot.

That was great.

[hootinholler]

16. Haven't seen ya in a while.

:hi:

I think I shall send them an email of encouragement.

-Hoot

[NNadir]

14. It's sinking in.

I never thought I'd see the day again where the truth was told on the radio.

[lonestarnot]

15. Wooodamnwhoo!

[faithnotgreed]

17. kicking for some truth

[young_at_heart]

18. All I can say is 'WOW"

The ending is very powerful....thank you Mr. Bedore.

[hootinholler]

19. I forgot to suggest we leave a note of support for this sort of commentary

They have a web form.

Let's encourage this behavior, and SHOW some love, which is better than some some love, eh?

-Hoot

Edit to add my note:

I heard Mr. Beldore's commentary to close Marketplace tonight while driving, and I nearly crashed my car because my jaw was hitting the accelerator.

Thank you for so forcefully and lucidly stating that which has been painfully obvious to truth seekers for some time now.

Bravo! Mr. Beldore, will your next commentary focus on the felonious behavior the 'liberal media' has enabled? I can hardly wait.

[Miss Chybil]

22. Great stuff! nt

[mikelewis]

23. K&R

[Change has come]

24. K&R n/t

:kick:

[intheflow]

26. I used to turn off Marketplace b/c it po'd me so bad spewing corp lies.

But this is the second report this week that took the time to paint of picture of Republican economic lies. I'm going to have to start listening again.

[mia]

27. Thursday morning segment on the Dixie Chicks was a surprise too.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5742229

Thanks for the link to a "most excellent rant"!
I would have missed it.

[Justice]

28. That was terrific

[Triana]

30. Hahahaah....

"It's time for you people in the media, even though you are owned by huge corporations which tend to be... let me think... conservative, to quit bending over backwards to prove you are not liberal by refusing to be accurate and/or relevant. Being accurate does not mean you are liberal. Being accurate just means you're not stabbing democracy in the back."

PERFECT.

[nuxvomica]

31. Check out the one from the previous day, too

Clive Crook explains how you are more likely to realize the "American Dream" in France or Canada than America anymore.

Well, on that measure, America is now less the land of opportunity than France, than Germany, than Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark. The only other rich economy that the U.S. outscores in this respect is — you guessed it — the UK. Abolish the estate tax and America will be a serious contender for the bottom of the opportunity league.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/08/31/PM200608315.html

Maybe the NPR bosses left really early for the holiday weekend.

[hootinholler]

32. As I was corrected...

This is the work of Minnesotans, APM, or American Public Media, not NPR. Still deserving of praise!

-Hoot

[nuxvomica]

33. Good point. I missed CatholicEdHead's correction

Nonetheless, I listen to this show almost every weekday when I drive home from work and I was surprised at Friday's commentary. I think Marketplace may be trending bolder.

[hootinholler]

34. Yepper! Have you emailed them? n/t

[nuxvomica]

36. Yes, I did, hootinholler

After you got on my back about it. You are relentless in promoting this. Good for you! :D

[hootinholler]

37. Can you imagine a media chorus?

Actually reporting the obvious truth?

I didn't think that was possible, now I'm hopeful. It will only hapen if we recognize it when it happens.

-Hoot

[1932]

35. If you need the numbers on how Dems are better than Repubs on economy

they're in Foxes in the Hen House by Steve Jardine and David Saunders p 171-187

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0743286510/ref=sib_dp_pop_toc/002-7593254-8792836?ie=UTF8&p=S00B#reader-link

[liberalhistorian]

39. I've often been quite surprised by

some of the commentaries at the end of the Marketplace shows, some of them really rip the repubs and acknowledge the devastating impact of their economic policies on all but the rich, especially the middle and lower classes.

[Greyskye]

40. I remember Tim Bedore!

He was a radio jock on a Sacramento rock station back in the 80's. He later went into stand-up, and now he's identified as a 'humorist'. Way to go Tim!!!

:toast: