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Originally Posted by Prunepicker
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Virtually everything on NPR is commentary, they just don't say so. Look at the front page of NPR's website. That's not reporting. It's a glowing commentary for the left. Search for McCain and it's luke warm at best. I can't find anything about McCain taking the lead in the polls. And if you search "polls" you get nothing but democrat or liberal results.
Have you listened to todays hourly news? How about yesterday?
How about todays "Liberal Edition"? Do you think they'll give the Republicans that much positive time?
Do you remember their 9/11 reporting (read commentaries)? They virtually wrote Michael Moore's script for him.
How about their Katrina reporting (again read commentary)?
It doesn't matter who supports them. NPR is liberal. Period. But that's beside the point. The government has no business funding political radio. Imagine if Sean Hannity or Jerry Doyle received any amount of CPB or Public university money.
I went to the business section of KGOU and found that closer to 20% comes directly from CPB and 39% from the University itself. See page 5 of the pdf. That's quite a bit more than the 10% you mentioned. Again, this is from KGOU's website. |
I'll cede your point on the funding but I disagree with the original assumption on the context of what that means. The university is a large contributor to KGOU because its School of Journalism is using the radio station to train its writing students and on-air personalities as opposed to just propping the station up for some political purpose.
I don't remember the 9/11 coverage specifically but I do remember being impressed at the time that a large amount of what they reported can be found in the 9/11 Commission Report, which is setting on my bookshelf.
I did listen to NPR yesterday and the day before. The story I remember most clearly was the one where they criticized CNN pretty harshly for having Democratic party operatives on their reporting staff as paid consultants. In the story they pointed out and played audio of these consultants side-stepping any critical question posed to them about the Democrats and questioned what news value they were actually adding to CNN. It was actually a pretty hard rebuke. I don't think they would air a story like that if they were strictly partisan.
As for all the Democratic coverage, that is kind of expected considering this is the Dem's week isn't it? Let's see what they do next week with the Republicans.
As for the glowing reviews... did you watch any of this week's extravaganza? I am not a hard-core Democrat but holy crap 1. that was almost as big a spectacle as the Olympics, and 2. Obama's speech was pretty much a political masterpiece. The guy can definitely turn a phrase.