NPR will still be on the air. Nothing done by the ineffective GOP led House will change that.
NPR is not ultra-liberal. It just isn't ultra-conservative, so the Reps that need that base made a big show of de-funding them (and PBS ... big bird and all).
The Senate and the POTUS won't let the funding cease. And it only matters to small market areas, anyway. Nationally, PBS and NPR are funded quite substantially from the private donations they receive (about 90% of their funding).
Why does the GOP want small market stations to go out of business and people become unemployed? Wow, you'd think they would have addressed the important issues of individual Americans now looking for work, instead of adding to the numbers!
The attacks are unfair. And they will be totally unproductive. Move on, let's ask this Congress to start doing something important.
Maybe not unfair, but defunding it takes away some independent voice of the people.
Of course the problem we face in America right now, is keeping both parties from trying to turn Washington, into a dictatorship, of extreme ideology, whether left or right.
At the same time, we are faced with the loss of the country to population takeover by illegal Mexicans. That goes hand in hand, with the people of the US re-taking their government from the main political parties, who are both ignoring the danger that the US will fall to Mexican control. We already have 2 states whose populations have been taken over by illegal Mexicans. Only 48 to go, before they over the entire country, and many other states are already on the verge, especially all of the other border states.
There is no independent voice of the the people on NPR, only the voice of the left wing people. It's like a retirement party of hippies from the 60s. Now I know where they all went.
"When I look at what America has become today I liked it better the way it used to be."
Apartheid, lynchings, women with precious few employment options or financial resources, men having the right to beat their wives, teenage sons being drafted to a futile war, Homosexuality illegal, bi-racial marriage illegal, losing your job for worshipping with the "wrong" denomination or congregation, not getting a mortgage or bank account for having the "wrong" political view.
Oh yes apple pie" Christian" America wasn't very Christian at all. Believe me, you really don't wanna step further back into American Christian history. It ain't pleasant.
Thinking of every positive action that the church has claimed in the name of G*d, you can't name one that couldn't be done by non -believers.
Please stop using "Happy Days" as your history research.
The secret video showed a high exec of NPR saying "we would be better off without federal funding." So what is wrong with granting him his wish? Use common sense, people!
I listened to NPR for about 25 years, beginning in 1980 or so.
Eventually I tuned them out because they have never been the slightest bit fair or unbiased to Christians. Now sure, if someone is a homosexual Episcopal, then yes -- they would always give that person or issue plenty of air time. But for other parts of the Christian church, the Christian community, it's like we don't exist.
And when I look at what America has become, well -- I liked it better the way it used to be. And NPR, you've helped produce who and what America is today.
And although you may claim to be unbiased, indeed I think you believe such remarks, but that simply isn't the case, your organization is devoid of anything that is even remotely Christian or Christ-centered. (You're supposed to present all news fairly, not just the news that has negative impact for Christians.) Example: When was the last time you discussed the problems of the poor by interviewing a worker with the Salvation army?
And your idea of being fair to religion is to offer up plenty of new-age stuff. But actual Christian thought, Sunday afternoon discussions that included real Christians -- never, not one time in the 25 years I listened to my local NPR outlet.
Not that this is unique to NPR, this is what America has become, a nation that is properly described as post-Christian. Well, hello -- look around, look at what is happening to our country. Is this what people want?
@ oh_Henry, you state, "Eventually I tuned them out because they have never been the slightest bit fair or unbiased to Christians. Now sure, if someone is a homosexual Episcopal, then yes -- they would always give that person or issue plenty of air time. But for other parts of the Christian church, the Christian community, it's like we don't exist."
Are you actually implying that Episcopalians are not christians? Unbelieveable. Guess you are one of those Theocrats who wants to change the Constitution so we can live in a Theocracy vs. a Democracy where we are free to worship as we please...or not. Go live in Iran if that's what you want.
Interesting how the right wing nuts consider any news outlet that is truly "fair and" balanced" to be left wing liberal. To them, if the news is not slanted in a manner that brings a smile to Rupert Murdoch's lips, it is a damnable lie. Any news story which does not cast Obama in an unfavorable light, or make reference to his perhaps being born in Kenya is unworthy of broadcast. The Faux Nooze junkies are indeed a sad lot.
I've listened to NPR, and almost no conservatives are given a voice. How is that fair and balanced. If it were fair and balanced, why would Republicans dislike it so much? All media is bias, and it always has been. The difference between FOX and NPR is that no American is FORCED to fund FOX through taxes - as they are for NPR.
The odd thing is that NPR execs were caught gloating that they represent the uber-educated, elite in the country. They're not playing bluegrass or hip-hop. Since they have mass snob appeal and target the affluent WHY should they get any funding? Certainly, their demographics indicate that the consumers of their product can afford to pay for it.
Maybe if they admitted their leftist bias and made some effort to move to the middle, their funding wouldn't be under attack. All I hear are a bunch if lectures whining because they will have to pay their own way.
The complaint wouldn't be as severe, but no media outlet should be supported by taxes taken by force from taxpayers. They should be supported by those who voluntarily do so by purchasing products and services offered as sponsors for the programing. That type of funding by the American people is voluntary, and that is the way of a free people.
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NPR is not ultra-liberal. It just isn't ultra-conservative, so the Reps that need that base made a big show of de-funding them (and PBS ... big bird and all).
The Senate and the POTUS won't let the funding cease. And it only matters to small market areas, anyway. Nationally, PBS and NPR are funded quite substantially from the private donations they receive (about 90% of their funding).
Why does the GOP want small market stations to go out of business and people become unemployed? Wow, you'd think they would have addressed the important issues of individual Americans now looking for work, instead of adding to the numbers!
The attacks are unfair. And they will be totally unproductive. Move on, let's ask this Congress to start doing something important.
Of course the problem we face in America right now, is keeping both parties from trying to turn Washington, into a dictatorship, of extreme ideology, whether left or right.
At the same time, we are faced with the loss of the country to population takeover by illegal Mexicans. That goes hand in hand, with the people of the US re-taking their government from the main political parties, who are both ignoring the danger that the US will fall to Mexican control. We already have 2 states whose populations have been taken over by illegal Mexicans. Only 48 to go, before they over the entire country, and many other states are already on the verge, especially all of the other border states.
One of the first things my father taught me....life is not fair; deal with it.
Apartheid, lynchings, women with precious few employment options or financial resources, men having the right to beat their wives, teenage sons being drafted to a futile war, Homosexuality illegal, bi-racial marriage illegal, losing your job for worshipping with the "wrong" denomination or congregation, not getting a mortgage or bank account for having the "wrong" political view.
Oh yes apple pie" Christian" America wasn't very Christian at all. Believe me, you really don't wanna step further back into American Christian history. It ain't pleasant.
Thinking of every positive action that the church has claimed in the name of G*d, you can't name one that couldn't be done by non -believers.
Please stop using "Happy Days" as your history research.
........Or alternatively you could reply to the point I made..........................
Eventually I tuned them out because they have never been the slightest bit fair or unbiased to Christians. Now sure, if someone is a homosexual Episcopal, then yes -- they would always give that person or issue plenty of air time. But for other parts of the Christian church, the Christian community, it's like we don't exist.
And when I look at what America has become, well -- I liked it better the way it used to be. And NPR, you've helped produce who and what America is today.
And although you may claim to be unbiased, indeed I think you believe such remarks, but that simply isn't the case, your organization is devoid of anything that is even remotely Christian or Christ-centered. (You're supposed to present all news fairly, not just the news that has negative impact for Christians.) Example: When was the last time you discussed the problems of the poor by interviewing a worker with the Salvation army?
And your idea of being fair to religion is to offer up plenty of new-age stuff. But actual Christian thought, Sunday afternoon discussions that included real Christians -- never, not one time in the 25 years I listened to my local NPR outlet.
Not that this is unique to NPR, this is what America has become, a nation that is properly described as post-Christian. Well, hello -- look around, look at what is happening to our country. Is this what people want?
Are you actually implying that Episcopalians are not christians? Unbelieveable. Guess you are one of those Theocrats who wants to change the Constitution so we can live in a Theocracy vs. a Democracy where we are free to worship as we please...or not. Go live in Iran if that's what you want.