I'm going back to sending emails and calling KPCC so they get the message that NPR is hurting all public radio, but more importantly, people need to speak out against this sort of crap.
Or better yet, you could give all secondary sources and pundits the finger and make up your own mind.If you want to hurt NPR you should listen to conservative radio and forget about them.
There's people from all over the spectrum jumping all over NPR. About the only person who isn't is the spokeshole for CAIR.FoxNews.com said:Williams Firing Sparks Calls to Defund National Public Radio
Published October 21, 2010 | FoxNews.com
"I think the U.S. Congress should investigate NPR and consider cutting off their money," said Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is also a Fox News contributor
Gingrich called the firing "an act of total censorship."
"I think the whole idea that if you honestly say how you feel about Islam -- what he said was very balanced, people should read what he actually said -- the idea that that's the excuse for National Public Radio to censor Juan Williams is an outrage and every listeners of NPR should be enraged that there's this kind of bias against an American," Gingrich said.
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What are you talking about? Conservatives have been speaking out against politically correctness for years. It's one of the reasons why you call us racists. If you want to hurt NPR you should listen to conservative radio and forget about them.
Or better yet, you could give all secondary sources and pundits the finger and make up your own mind.
I kinda like that solution best, m'self. :shrug:
Politics makes for interesting bedfellows:There's people from all over the spectrum jumping all over NPR. About the only person who isn't is the spokeshole for CAIR.
Better yet, realize no one cares about your overreaction to whatever it is you don't like about NPR now. And neither does KPCC
They also have strong conservatve voices on their programs.
Such as? P.J. O'Rourke and Roy Blunt in Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me?
While "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" may qualify as news to you, where I come from it's viewed as an entertainment show.
Not really, but keep thinking that way if it makes you happy.It is possible for people with good minds to listen to pundits and secondary sources and still make up their own minds. Why you suppose listening to pundits and secondary sources would dictate my thoughts, says more about you than me.
For the Republicans this is simply an opportunity worth exploiting in order to do what they've been wanting to do for some time.Lots of people are sticking up for NPR and saying they shouldn't have fired Juan. It is possible to see the issue as NOT black and white. It is obviously, when right wing feigned outrage out of the picture, a situation of management gone wild. When right wingers or left wingers get into management they do stupid things.
Even with their ****-up with firing Juan Williams. They are still the most superior source of news in the mainstream media, given that they actually flesh out stories beyond what network news is willing to do. :shrug:
Politics makes for interesting bedfellows:There's people from all over the spectrum jumping all over NPR. About the only person who isn't is the spokeshole for CAIR.
Better yet, realize no one cares about your overreaction to whatever it is you don't like about NPR now. And neither does KPCC
Lots of people are sticking up for NPR and saying they shouldn't have fired Juan. It is possible to see the issue as NOT black and white. It is obviously, when right wing feigned outrage out of the picture, a situation of management gone wild. When right wingers or left wingers get into management they do stupid things.
Free speech doesn't keep you from getting fired. So having a picket line outside of where you used to work would be really foolish.
Regards from Rosie
There is conservative pc crap too. Leftists and right wingers both engage in this crap. NPR has great programing. They also have strong conservatve voices on their programs. It is teh management at NPR that is an issue.
Please keep up with the facts.
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