NPR/PBS addicts unite!

“"i'll send you a subscription form to the weekly manifesto immediately”

Maybe not commrad. LOL!”

“Ewker - He went off on my also about a month prior to him doing it to you. We both noticed the same thing, and he went on a tizzy both times. That's why it was so funny. I thought he was in denial, but it looks like he's coming around.”

“The authority of the White House was invoked in decisions being made at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by its chairman, according to e-mails obtained by NPR. The chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, has repeatedly denied accusations that he has attempted to politicize the agency during his tenure, which began in September 2003.

Among the agency's chief duties is the doling out of federal funds to public television and radio, primarily to individual stations but to PBS and NPR as well. The inspector general of the CPB has begun an investigation of the new claims.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4711531”

“WASHINGTON, June 20 - A researcher retained secretly by the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to monitor the "Now" program with Bill Moyers for political objectivity last year, worked for 20 years at a journalism center founded by the American Conservative Union and a conservative columnist, an official at the journalism center said on Monday.

The decision by the chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, to retain the researcher, Fred Mann, without the knowledge of the corporation's board, to report on the political leanings of the guests of "Now" is one of several issues under investigation by the corporation's inspector general.

At the request of two Democratic lawmakers, investigators are examining whether Mr. Tomlinson has violated any rules as he has sought, he says, to ensure that public television and radio provide greater program balance.

His critics, including some lawmakers and executives of public broadcasting, say he has sought to tilt the corporation, which provides $400 million to radio and television stations and producers, toward a conservative agenda.

continued...”

“No kidding violin - he's admitted trying to balance the show. LOL

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/062205/tomlinson.html

It's funny how the libs think that government censoring government is censorship and an outrage. LOL!

Interesting how only the Dems are mad the programming would shift under his direction.

What are they worried about? I thought there was no political agenda! How can you shift nothing?

Dems are pissed once again because people are sick of putting up with their whiney propoganda.”

“Amen Sarge.”

“The lies of Ken Tomlinson: http://mediamatters.org/items/200506220009”

“Violin calling someone else a liar? Bawhawhawhaw!”

“Your news outlet is liberal, no your's is. Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas wondered, on Inside Washington over the weekend, whether the effort in the U.S. House to reduce funding for PBS and NPR through the CPB would "make NPR a little less liberal?" An indignant Nina Totenberg of NPR retorted: "I don't think we're liberal to begin with and I think if you would listen, Evan, you would know that." Thomas countered that "I do listen to you and you're not that liberal, but you're a little bit liberal." Totenberg insisted, "I don't think that's a fair criticism...any more than you would say that Newsweek is liberal." To which Thomas conceded: "I think Newsweek is a little liberal."”

“I think you're a little liberal.”

“I'd rather be a little liberal tban to be a big weenie.”

“Calling someone a little bit liberal is like calling someone a little bit nuts.”

“NPR reports that people in Ohio are are having a hard time finding food to eat - well, except the two ladies they show as examples



http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92592545”

“me like those ladies!

cookiemonster thinks they my kinda ladies!”

“They look like socialists to me.”

“Bubba Beer's "victims"”