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There are so many people saying that America doesn't need public radio or it should not be funded by the government......
The right-wing has been successful in pushing a message that PBS/NPR have "liberal bias". For exploration, lets say that public radio was "conservatively biased" thanks to the left-wing...would that change your perception of if America needed public radio? If you notice, the effort is not to remove public radio but to skew it to the FOX model....allegedly balancing what does not need balance....would the dollars come back if this happened? This is another example of Conservatives try changing the rules when they cant do what they want....CPB exists as a firewall not a programming consultant....
The CPB's own polls show clearly that people dont feel that NPR/PBS is liberally biased.....these were run by conservative Ken Tomlinson....yet the false claims continue......
Here are two postings that hopefully should make one at least think about this argument..Media Matters points to a presentation of a debate on NPR between a contributor to the weekly standard and the station manager of a PBS station in Kansas City......if for some reason you believe the Media Matters presentation is skewed left....you can watch the full archive of the presentation on the newshour's page on the PBS.org website.....you will see that media matters reporting is very accurate
http://mediamatters.org/items/200506230007
Regarding funding, i posted this a while back but its a good article to show how NPR is not wasting opportunities on funding......
http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=1197
Its time to argue public radio with real issues...not talking points about false bias
The right-wing has been successful in pushing a message that PBS/NPR have "liberal bias". For exploration, lets say that public radio was "conservatively biased" thanks to the left-wing...would that change your perception of if America needed public radio? If you notice, the effort is not to remove public radio but to skew it to the FOX model....allegedly balancing what does not need balance....would the dollars come back if this happened? This is another example of Conservatives try changing the rules when they cant do what they want....CPB exists as a firewall not a programming consultant....
The CPB's own polls show clearly that people dont feel that NPR/PBS is liberally biased.....these were run by conservative Ken Tomlinson....yet the false claims continue......
Here are two postings that hopefully should make one at least think about this argument..Media Matters points to a presentation of a debate on NPR between a contributor to the weekly standard and the station manager of a PBS station in Kansas City......if for some reason you believe the Media Matters presentation is skewed left....you can watch the full archive of the presentation on the newshour's page on the PBS.org website.....you will see that media matters reporting is very accurate
http://mediamatters.org/items/200506230007
Regarding funding, i posted this a while back but its a good article to show how NPR is not wasting opportunities on funding......
http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=1197
Its time to argue public radio with real issues...not talking points about false bias