Thread: This is Lame! More Neutering of the American Male!

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

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Do you actually listen to NPR? I find that most of the people who insist that NPR has a liberal bias are the ones who have never listened to it for more than 5 minutes. And for the record, NPR is a mere shadow of it's former self. It used to scoop the mainstream news on a weekly basis, now they seem to mostly repeat the same stories but geared toward a more college educated suburbanites. They seem to relish their standing among that demographic.

Originally Posted by joesixpack

Do you actually listen to NPR? I find that most of the people who insist that NPR has a liberal bias are the ones who have never listened to it for more than 5 minutes. And for the record, NPR is a mere shadow of it's former self. It used to scoop the mainstream news on a weekly basis, now they seem to mostly repeat the same stories but geared toward a more college educated suburbanites. They seem to relish their standing among that demographic.

Lisa Simeone: SoundPrint freelancer fired after NPR began investigating her Occupy Wall Street ties.

They may be a shadow of their former self, but I would argue it still has a bit of a bias. The above is a recent example.

Edit: I suppose she was fired, so that's reassuring. At least the higher-ups strive for journalistic integrity, which is more than can be said for many of our news outlets.

Originally Posted by Jimbo7

Lisa Simeone: SoundPrint freelancer fired after NPR began investigating her Occupy Wall Street ties.

They may be a shadow of their former self, but I would argue it still has a bit of a bias. The above is a recent example.

Edit: I suppose she was fired, so that's reassuring. At least the higher-ups strive for journalistic integrity, which is more than can be said for many of our news outlets.

The point is that we do have news sources that aren't just shouting heads like Fox and MSNBC, whose anchors spend more time discussing Lindsay Lohan's parole than the death of Gaddafi. I think that NPR and PBS have news shows that are genuinely written to tell people what the heck is going on in the world.

Pretty confident that there isn't a news source in the world that doesn't have a bit of a bias and/or has had a controversy in their past. It's not that NPR is free of bias, but more to the point that they're more news than tabloid or advertisement.

I find that The Onion has news that is just as reliable as most other sources. They just don't lie about it being mostly made up.

NPR is so blatantly liberal/socialist it is nauseating.... from the firing of juan williams for speaking his mind and not following the internal memos not to say anything bad about islam..... to the fact that the head of NPR vivian schiller was fired for blatant socialistic tendency's... NPR – Fires CEO following multiple revelations of NPR’s Damning Socialist Extremism | VotingFemale

Originally Posted by joesixpack

Do you actually listen to NPR? I find that most of the people who insist that NPR has a liberal bias are the ones who have never listened to it for more than 5 minutes. And for the record, NPR is a mere shadow of it's former self. It used to scoop the mainstream news on a weekly basis, now they seem to mostly repeat the same stories but geared toward a more college educated suburbanites. They seem to relish their standing among that demographic.

I listened to NPR regularly for years. Programs such as The Diane Rehm Show, To The Point and of course All Things Considered. I believe they, NPR as a whole, does have a liberal agenda/bias. Ask Juan Williams what his take is. I stopped listening only recently.

The irresponsibility of the republicans in refusing to compromise one iota is reminiscent of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Rather than attempt to work together in a partisan manner to possibly have a positive impact on the economy, and the situation millions of Americans find themselves in, the republican agenda is to keep things as bad as they can be so they have a better chance of beating the democrats in 2012 ..... whoever gets the dem nomination. It won't necessarily be Obama IMHO.

The straw, if you're still reading , that broke this camel's back was the debt crisis fiasco. The economy had a small amount of positive momentum and for the first time in American history the republicans brought the thing down to the wire. This disturbed most Americans so much , along with the Standard & Poors taking our credit rating down from triple A. This had a chilling effect on the economy and broke whatever positive momentum there had been. So I stopped listening to either side. I decided then that I'm doing a Timothy Leary without the drugs. I'm tuned out and dropped out until it comes time to vote in 2012. Then it will , no doubt, be the way it has been all of my voting life ..... the lesser of two evils being the only choice.

Originally Posted by paco664

NPR is so blatantly liberal/socialist it is nauseating.... from the firing of juan williams for speaking his mind and not following the internal memos not to say anything bad about islam..... to the fact that the head of NPR vivian schiller was fired for blatant socialistic tendency's... NPR – Fires CEO following multiple revelations of NPR’s Damning Socialist Extremism | VotingFemale

Your citation is blogspam and the fact that Vivian Schiller actually resigned kind of takes away some validity there. What news source would you say provides the best information about what is going on in the world?

I'm also tuned out. I just don't care anymore. The whole game is ridiculous.

Originally Posted by commiecat

Your citation is blogspam and the fact that Vivian Schiller actually resigned kind of takes away some validity there. What news source would you say provides the best information about what is going on in the world?

difficult to say to be quite honest.... i do not watch television at all *(other than when i am at work and am forced to due to being in a room with coworkers... we watch a lot of food network and occasionally CNN until i get sick of it and make them change the channel or turn off the tv..)

i get my news from the internet... some through blogs... some through msn/yahoo/google/etc.... i am a voracious reader......

as to your question about who is the best... i cannot answer that.... the ALL have glaring faults and slants.... most slant wayyyyyyyyy left.... a few slant wayyyyyy right....... absolutely none are straight up the middle.....

vivian schiller was given the option to resign or face a nasty and very public firing.... this from one of the stories linked to in that wiki...

Her resignation comes at a precarious time for public broadcasting, as Republicans in Congress are trying to strip NPR and its member stations of tens of millions of dollars in federal funds. NPR has been consumed by controversy as of late; most recently, a Republican filmmaker released a video on Tuesday that showed one of NPR’s fund-raising executives repeatedly criticizing Republicans and Tea Party supporters in a conversation with people posing as prospective donors.

Originally Posted by HNSB

The whole game is ridiculous.

Dangerously so. Either way you vote you get someone whose sole intent (as it seems to me) is to find a way to destroy the country. As far as I can tell every President, administration and Congress has been worse than the last, since the death of JFK.