Re: [Mid] OT: This time, it's for real: Save NPR and PBS

you know as a Libertarian I just don't care if NPR and PBS is right wing
(read wants to control you by law) or left wing who want to control you
by taxation. I for one think that if they can't support themselves then
you really don't need them.
Anna Lyse

Marco and Jitka Sainte wrote:

> Mit1369@aol.com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 6/15/05 2:23:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> drew@drewncapris.net writes:
>>
>> It presents all points of view.
>>
>> Yea, Right! (not!)
>
> Milord, I'd have to respectfully disagree with you on that point. NPR
> certainly does present all points of view. They've broadcast things
> that had me nearly spitting in disgust, to the point where my husband
> just looks at me, sighs, and shakes his head because he knows if he
> says anything, I'll come back with a relatively logic-based argument
> against something he disagrees with anyway. They've also broadcast
> things that made me think, "Gee, wouldn't it be nice if that really
> happened? If such-and-such a bill got passed/program got started,
> ect.?" If they can do that, as opposed to "all spitting, all the time"
> or the reverse, "all things I agree with, all the time", I would
> assert that they are, indeed, presenting all points of view.
>
> If they have a speaker on that's of one persuasion, they have another
> speaker who's diametrically opposed, and they ask them the same
> questions. I've heard it myself, many times.
>
> Perhaps in your hours of listening to NPR, you simply had to leave the
> car because you were at your destination before the opposing viewpoint
> came on.
>
> Fiora
>
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