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stubtoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:07 PM
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Is NPR growing a set at last?
Very good articles from Sunday's All Things Considered.

David Welna: The Iraq War Vote, Revisited:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5288814 (click on "listen")

Anne Garrels: Iraquis Bitter ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5289143 (click on "listen")

This is the 3rd anniversary of the start of the war. I have not heard in some long while such candor as I've heard today on NPR. Whazzup?? I like it!
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central scrutinizer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:11 PM
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1. I'd be surprised
Neutered Pomeranian Radio has been an embarrassment for years.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:16 PM
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2. Well, they got new management
so who knows? I have a feeling their contributions dropped when former management tried to "balance" it by loading it down with right wing know nothings. I knwo NPR programming has decreased on local college stations due to complaints from contributors.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:21 PM
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3. They have been losing contributors to Pacifica.
Money talks.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:23 PM
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4. After they sacked Bob Edwards I stopped listening n/t
Edited on Sun Mar-19-06 09:23 PM by upi402
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Nostradammit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:23 PM
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5. I heard Terry Gross doing a political interview the other day
and my heart leapt with joy. I hadn't heard one since she eviscerated Grover Norquist several years back. All I'd heard in the interim was Hollywood fluff, so yeah, maybe they've mustered their courage.
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:25 PM
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6. "Nostradammit"...
... DU dictionary: nostradammit: vb - when you look into the future and it really pisses you off :)
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Nostradammit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:33 PM
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9. Bingo!
:toast:

And I haven't been disappointed...
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:30 PM
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8. I am so sick of her Hollywood stories
Show biz I don't need. Coverage of Hollywood is everywhere. Let's not waste an interviewer of Gross's capabilities on Hollywood crap.




Cher
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Nostradammit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:40 PM
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10. I'm hip -
Edited on Sun Mar-19-06 09:41 PM by Nostradammit
It's like when Ed Schultz is talking about sports - I feel like I'm on the Titanic and we've hit the iceberg and the crew is standing around talking about a fucking cricket match.

Terry's interview with Norquist was a thing of beauty that sent him off rubbing his ass. It wasn't too long after that things started getting shook up at NPR.

Here's Terry on O'Reilly's show (after he'd huffed out of her studio some months prior):

TERRY GROSS, "ALL I DID WAS ASK" AUTHOR: Well, Bill, I pledge that no matter what you ask me, I'm staying for the entire interview.

O'REILLY: OK, you're going to stay for the whole interview. That's good. Here's my problem with this interview. I thought that you were trying to make a name for yourself by quoting this defamation, which has been discredited at this point all up and down. And then, I read in your book — you don't have the interview in your book, per se, you don't put the transcripts — I'll let you tell the audience why. But you do write about it in the introduction.

And you say, "One of the issues I wanted to pursue with O'Reilly was whether he uses his Fox News program to settle scores with anybody who takes issues with him," on and on and on. And that's legitimate. I mean, that's legitimate. But what you don't have in your book is that you got scolded by your own ombudsman. Why didn't you just put that in the book? Why did you leave that out?

GROSS: Did I not mention that in the introduction?

O'REILLY: No.

GROSS: Well, I have no problem with the fact that he criticized the interview, because he thought...

O'REILLY: If you're going to set me up in your introduction as somebody which you have problems with, why wouldn't you put in your book that you were scolded by your own ombudsman? You left that out? Why did you leave it out?

GROSS: I don't know why I left it out.

O'REILLY: You don't know?

GROSS: The point, Bill, is that I think the interview was very fair. The ombudsman criticized it. That's fine. That's the ombudsman's job; to stand back and pass judgment on how things were done. He's an independent voice.

O'REILLY: Right.

GROSS: Does Fox News have an ombudsman?

O'REILLY: Yes. We have an ombudsman some place, I think.

GROSS: I don't think so.

O'REILLY: He's in the closet.

GROSS: Give me a call when you find him.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133177,00.html
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 06:55 AM
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13. that's a hoot
I caught the interview they're talking about, so I did appreciate that.

:rofl:

I love how she came back with whether Fox News has an ombudsman.




Cher
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:27 PM
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7. I stopped sending money.
....back in 2003. But to be honest, I figured for every person like me who stopped paying, they'd pick up some dumbass who' start.

Maybe not, I notice the local affiliate seems to run a lot more pledge days than they used to. And after 3 years, they still send me the "please re-join" letter every 2-3 months.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:42 PM
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11. No, it's Pledge Drive Time.
Give you the illussion of doing their jobs so you donate, but next week it'll be Juan and Cokie fighting over Shrubbya's cock, as usual.

I haven't listened to National Propaganda Radio since I got XM.
There's a survey being held by the Indiana Public Radio group about how to "better serve the listenership" I think I'll suggest ditching NPR for Pacifica...
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 11:00 PM
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12. "this American Life" . . .
. . . today had an amazing show where they let Iraqi prisoners who had been in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo tell their stories about being tortured. Quite powerful and defiantly showed some cajones on their part.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 08:12 AM
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15. That program has been dead-on all along.
Did you hear any of their reporting on Katrina? Worth going to their archives for.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 07:25 AM
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14. Er - last week they spoke to the founder of Free Republic for his insight
on Iraq.

I usually defend NPR, but I thought this was a new low.
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stubtoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:39 AM
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16. Free Republic
Yeah, I heard that too. Yak!
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 09:45 AM
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17. You can imagine my reaction. I'm always defending NPR here!
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