House Republicans vote to kill NPR

  On 3/23/2011 at 5:40 PM, vamos scorcho said:

my ignorant take on this:

 

1. NPR is not biased. they report facts.

 

no reason to dismantle because of bias

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. BREAKING: NPR, TEACHERS, FIREFIGHTERS MASTERMINDS BEHIND ECONOMIC CRISIS!!!!!

 

[read a headline like that in a local satire paper and thought it summed up the whole thing brilliantly. this is sick shit going on, they're pushing to take the last remaining walls ''orsomething'']

lol, seriously?

where do you live?

"In a democracy, the people get what they deserve."

-de Tocqueville

Solution: Give public funding to Fox News as well.

edit: or a news outlet of the more right leaning party's choice.

  On 3/23/2011 at 8:44 PM, Haldermaniac said:

Solution: Give public funding to Fox News as well.

 

 

edit: or a news outlet of the more right leaning party's choice.

fox receives billions in the form of tax breaks and loopholes

well i dont know what they are complaining about then

http://www.alternet.org/media/150327/how_you_end_up_bankrolling_fox_news:_news_corp._and_rupert_murdoch_weasel_out_of_paying_taxes

How You End Up Bankrolling Fox News: News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch Weasel Out of Paying Taxes

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When giant, prosperous, multinational corporations get out of their tax obligations, ordinary citizens are the ones who are forced to make up the shortfall.

From The Economist and New York Times:

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…News Corporation and its subsidiaries paid only A$325m ($238m) in corporate taxes worldwide. In the same period, its consolidated pre-tax profits were A$5.4 billion. So News Corporation has paid an effective tax rate of only around 6%. By comparison, Disney, one of the world’s other media empires, paid 31%. Basic corporate-tax rates in Australia, America and Britain, the three main countries in which News Corporation operates, are 36%, 35% and 30% respectively.”

 

The article goes on to describe how News Corp used a complex network of accounting dodges including as many as 60 shell companies that were incorporated in such tax havens as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the Netherlands Antilles and the British Virgin Islands. More recently, an investigation by the New York Times revealed that…

 

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“By taking advantage of a provision in the law that allows expanding companies like Mr. Murdoch’s to defer taxes to future years, the News Corporation paid no federal taxes in two of the last four years, and in the other two it paid only a fraction of what it otherwise would have owed. During that time, Securities and Exchange Commission records show, the News Corporation’s domestic pretax profits topped $9.4 billion.”

  On 3/23/2011 at 4:34 PM, mafted said:

  On 3/23/2011 at 3:45 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

your viewpoint is sound, as long as you can accept that all Democrats are over-idealistic hippies.

 

At least they have ideals.. other than making as much money off of others as possible.

 

That's fucking bullshit. There are a plethora of corrupt, heartless Democrats in office. They are arguably worse than corrupt Republicans because they do it at the expense of minorities and the economically disadvantaged. I understand the "lesser of two evils" argument in support of Dems over the GOP, but you're delusional and uninformed to think one party has ideals and the other doesn't. Both are short of any sincerity. There are very few politicians who maintain their ideals, and it's only people like Bernie Sanders, Ron (not Rand) Paul, Raplh Nader, etc, who are often ignored and overlooked on purpose.

most of you are completely missing the point.

for a democracy to survive, the voters need a source of information that is independent and uninfluenced by corporate or political interests. that's why NPR is important. it and PBS are the only impartial sources of journalism we have in the US.

  On 3/24/2011 at 12:25 AM, Al Hounos said:

most of you are completely missing the point.

for a democracy to survive, the voters need a source of information that is independent and uninfluenced by corporate or political interests. that's why NPR is important. it and PBS are the only impartial sources of journalism we have in the US.

yes. thank you.

watch the BBC innit

  On 3/24/2011 at 12:25 AM, Al Hounos said:

most of you are completely missing the point.

for a democracy to survive, the voters need a source of information that is independent and uninfluenced by corporate or political interests. that's why NPR is important. it and PBS are the only impartial sources of journalism we have in the US.

i just want to say that npr isn't wholly independent and unbiased, but clearly they are moreso than cablenews fuckopoly

  On 3/18/2011 at 12:28 AM, Rubin Farr said:

As a fan of NPR, I have to ask what the fuck is their problem? Yeah cut off funding for teachers and public servants, genius; now turn the liberal academic establishment against you by targeting public broadcasting.

The GOP are just securing more votes for when the POS generation, Al5x included, comes of age.

  On 3/24/2011 at 3:29 PM, Yegg said:

  On 3/18/2011 at 12:28 AM, Rubin Farr said:

As a fan of NPR, I have to ask what the fuck is their problem? Yeah cut off funding for teachers and public servants, genius; now turn the liberal academic establishment against you by targeting public broadcasting.

 

The GOP are just securing more votes for when the POS generation, Al5x included, comes of age.

lol

I don't have any self-affiliation or any want to be associated with either party. I just don't really give a shit about public broadcasting and think that when you say "I'm sorry, but republicans are all fucking assholes. They just are." you come off like a cry baby who would rather talk about who you think is a douche bag than the merits of the issue. (hence why I posted a picture of a crying baby)

Don't think that I must be on the other shitty team just because I'm not on your shitty team.

we should start campaigning for kucinich asap

start a new party

run train

  On 3/24/2011 at 4:35 PM, Al5x said:

Don't think that I must be on the other shitty team just because I'm not on your shitty team.

:sup:

  On 3/24/2011 at 12:25 AM, Al Hounos said:

most of you are completely missing the point.

for a democracy to survive, the voters need a source of information that is independent and uninfluenced by corporate or political interests. that's why NPR is important. it and PBS are the only impartial sources of journalism we have in the US.

no disrespect, but do you know what you are saying?

NPR exec resigns over tape bust

i agree with everything the CEO said, but thats incredibly biased.

  On 3/24/2011 at 5:54 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 3/24/2011 at 12:25 AM, Al Hounos said:

most of you are completely missing the point.

for a democracy to survive, the voters need a source of information that is independent and uninfluenced by corporate or political interests. that's why NPR is important. it and PBS are the only impartial sources of journalism we have in the US.

 

 

no disrespect, but do you know what you are saying?

 

 

NPR exec resigns over tape bust

 

 

i agree with everything the CEO said, but thats incredibly biased.

I bet most of the right agrees with him, too. It's not just the left that hates the Tea Party - most independents and righties do as well.

It's the usual tactic of purporting your reasons. They don't care about the moderate voice, they want to 'save federal money' by taking away public broadcasting. Yeah, right.

class warfart

  On 3/24/2011 at 5:54 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 3/24/2011 at 12:25 AM, Al Hounos said:

most of you are completely missing the point.

for a democracy to survive, the voters need a source of information that is independent and uninfluenced by corporate or political interests. that's why NPR is important. it and PBS are the only impartial sources of journalism we have in the US.

 

 

no disrespect, but do you know what you are saying?

 

 

NPR exec resigns over tape bust

 

 

i agree with everything the CEO said, but thats incredibly biased.

EVERYONE in journalism has political opinions - otherwise they wouldn't be journalists. NPR still does a remarkable job at separating these opinions from their reporting. one exec's goof-up doesn't change that. her job was to get money, not report. yeah, it's ugly, but $5 mil from a muslim group doesn't mean NPR is suddenly going to become anti-Israel.

  On 3/23/2011 at 4:35 PM, Al5x said:

  On 3/23/2011 at 4:34 PM, mafted said:

and that would be that inner asshole coming out. way to go.

is that your official analysis to be contributed? Dipshit. There's a difference between being butthurt and ready to slice peoples' throat open.

  On 3/25/2011 at 12:20 AM, Al Hounos said:

  On 3/24/2011 at 5:54 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 3/24/2011 at 12:25 AM, Al Hounos said:

most of you are completely missing the point.

for a democracy to survive, the voters need a source of information that is independent and uninfluenced by corporate or political interests. that's why NPR is important. it and PBS are the only impartial sources of journalism we have in the US.

 

 

no disrespect, but do you know what you are saying?

 

 

NPR exec resigns over tape bust

 

 

i agree with everything the CEO said, but thats incredibly biased.

EVERYONE in journalism has political opinions - otherwise they wouldn't be journalists. NPR still does a remarkable job at separating these opinions from their reporting. one exec's goof-up doesn't change that. her job was to get money, not report. yeah, it's ugly, but $5 mil from a muslim group doesn't mean NPR is suddenly going to become anti-Israel.

You guys realize it has come out that the video was edited in a misleading manner though right?

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Analysts from the Poynter Institute and The Blaze, a website set up by Fox News host Glenn Beck, told an NPR reporter that they found a short version of the video deceiving when compared with the full two-hour tape of a lunch meeting between NPR fundraisers and two conservative activists posing as a fake Muslim group.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/14/2725514/analysts-npr-video-edit-of-executive.html

EDIT: I don't need to reply to this...fuckin' coffee.

wow did anyone see the Jon Stewart show last night with Brett Bier from Fox News? Jon stewart literally made a false equivalency between NPR (being the left's version) & Fox News. What the hell happened to his mind?

ego

he's been falling for a while. though i'll probably have a soft spot inside for him till the day i / he dies.

  On 3/25/2011 at 5:21 PM, hautlle said:

  On 3/25/2011 at 12:20 AM, Al Hounos said:

  On 3/24/2011 at 5:54 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 3/24/2011 at 12:25 AM, Al Hounos said:

most of you are completely missing the point.

for a democracy to survive, the voters need a source of information that is independent and uninfluenced by corporate or political interests. that's why NPR is important. it and PBS are the only impartial sources of journalism we have in the US.

 

 

no disrespect, but do you know what you are saying?

 

 

NPR exec resigns over tape bust

 

 

i agree with everything the CEO said, but thats incredibly biased.

EVERYONE in journalism has political opinions - otherwise they wouldn't be journalists. NPR still does a remarkable job at separating these opinions from their reporting. one exec's goof-up doesn't change that. her job was to get money, not report. yeah, it's ugly, but $5 mil from a muslim group doesn't mean NPR is suddenly going to become anti-Israel.

 

 

You guys realize it has come out that the video was edited in a misleading manner though right?

 

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Analysts from the Poynter Institute and The Blaze, a website set up by Fox News host Glenn Beck, told an NPR reporter that they found a short version of the video deceiving when compared with the full two-hour tape of a lunch meeting between NPR fundraisers and two conservative activists posing as a fake Muslim group.

 

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/14/2725514/analysts-npr-video-edit-of-executive.html

well damn. seems im the fool on this one. well played.

im not willing to let go of the statement that NPR is "impartial" though. more than Air America or Fox? no contest. but in the overall scheme of things there is bias in there...but im willing to ignore that most of the time because they report on things not normally seen in normal news (protests in Yemen, government reconfiguration in Egypt, etc.)

NPR and PBS are probably the best news sources in america right now, or at least the best of the more well known sources. So I hope they don't die and I doubt they will