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LenJ
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:14pmWhether NPR is left leaning, right leaning, or strictly impartial is totally irrelevant. The government has no business underwriting any media company. They need to compete, like all media companies are required to compete. If NPR has a superior product, they will be profitable. If not, they will cease to exist.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:46pmYeah I agree with you and the argument they use is that the rural parts of the country will loose access to news and programing if NPR looses Gov’t funding. From what I have seen in my part of the Rural America living in a city with less than 100K population public broadcasting on TV or Radio is not what Farmers in the Agricultural community listen to.
I mean they are more worried about how the weather affects their lively hood rather than the difference between different types of wines. But I will say that there is an increase of rich city folks trying to make a living growing their own grapes to be the next millionaire wine maker. And that could be the rural listener that NPR execs are trying to capture in this debate.
But living in rural america I rarely try to tune into the NPR FM stations to listen to classical music or easy Rock-n-Roll of the sixties or to the reading of books on the radio. They surely don’t need someone to tell them how to diagnose and fix their car on the radio.
Maybe Georgy Schwartz/George Soros could donate a few billion to PBS to fund public axxis communications, he is sure willing to put that money into front groups like MoveOn.org that push his agenda.
Report Post »duckwalker
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:44pmNPR Board members quote
Report Post »“we unwittingly cultivated a core audience that is predominately white, liberal, highly educated, elite.” Note the White part.
I missed the part about the core audience of rural farmers and ranchers the poor and disadvantaged, minorities, as a target.
Defund they mean spirited evil bigots as soon as possible.
duane38637
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:14pmAll of the Blazes stories are reliable its the mainstream media that is not!
Report Post »BecksADweeb
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:34pmYeah, they’re really getting the earthquake news all wrong.
Do you ever read a newspaper?
Report Post »Ashrak
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:13pmDo please let me know when CNN does a story about how “unethical” DateLine NBC is with it’s undercover “To Catch a Predator” series. What Chris Hansen does is no different than what James O’keefe does.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:56pmJames has a smaller budget.
Report Post »Capt_Spalding
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:13pmSomeone check the thermostat in Hell … unbelievable.
Report Post »sean_m.
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:09pmTrying to spin it to make it seem unethical. Well, now I know where my tax dollars are going and the people who handle it. I applaud this.
Report Post »CrackerSmurf
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:09pmTax payer dollars means half is coming from conservatives half from liberals. so why is it 100% liberal views on our publicly funded radio and pbs service? Where is the GB OR RL on PBS or NPR? NOWHERE. So until it is an evenly distributed or shall we say “fairness doctrine” station no other station should even be considered to have to be. Not that they should be forced there anyways.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:39pm“They need to compete, like all media companies are required to compete.”
Why?
Report Post »PunditPawn
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:06pmOkeefe not a reporter? Next we’ll find out only lawyers can obey laws.
Nothing but a disingenuous attempt to marginalize one of the most Epic media bias smackdowns in modern history.
Thank you, James.
Report Post »Hammer Inc.
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:02pmNPR has always been the radio broadcast for the so called intellectual liberals, any wonder why democrats support thier messages ? They will pay to support anything that benefits them. Anytime i hear an NPR broadcast, i feel like grabbing a glass of pinot noir, and looking down my nose… Aha ! The president must listen to them, he has that gesture on his face quite a bit.
Report Post »BecksADweeb
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:37pmWell, we are superior to you, after all.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:00pmFantastic
Report Post »OLDANDBITTERCLINGER
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:01pmKudos for James O’Keefe!! I couldn’t be prouder of him if I was his mama! We need more like him, there isn’t enough of the boy to go around. I’m glad he is organizing. We need help from his generation if we are to get our country back. Unfortunately my generation was so busy working, going to worship services, organizing Scouts, being the taxi for the good life we thought our kids should have that we took our eye off the ball. And raised some really selfish kids while we were at it. Time for a reset!
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:59pmIf you “reporters/journalists” actually HAD been doing your jobs in the first place….Mr O‘keaf wouldn’t have HAD to do this expose!!!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:16pmTHANK you!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:18pmO’Keefe smelled a rat, because he knew EXACTLY whom to tape.
Report Post »Eaglesnest
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:58pmThis lady says thet the big issue with conservatives is funding public broadcasting in general…uh…NO, the issue is that NPR is liberal and there is NO way anyone can seriously dispute that. I would be fine with PUBLIC funding if they were either absolutely NON political or balanced. Since they are a public service, they have an obligation to be non-political and they have been ignoring that obligation, we have put up with it for years and now we are sick of it.
During these times of budgetary concerns, if NPR and PBS is so good, let them survive alone on advertising dollars and private donations.
Report Post »beauxdog
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:37pmDear Eaglesnest:
I respectfully disagree. I find no where in the constitution authorization for the US Government to prop up either the arts, children’s programming, or a press organization. As a conservative, I would object to this funding even if the organization was fair and balanced… or even biased toward conservatives. I believe that traditional arts (orchestras not “Piss Christ”) and children‘s programming aimed at development not propaganda deserve SOCIETY’s support. The federal government should keep out.
Report Post »wtc101
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:58pmHummmm, someone did their homework!
Report Post »Elev8n
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:58pmN word Pleazz. That is supposed to placate someone looking for the truth in journalism?
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:40pmI prefer to use the term we came up with for a “Harry Potter” reference. “Muggle Please” (anyone with kids who have read harry potter or anyone who has read it themselves might get the joke.)
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:00pmOnce the republicans control the congress and hopefully the presidency – they should via the FCC revoke the licenses of the MSM for not performing their constitutional responsibility to be the peoples watch dog not lap dog for ANY administration – they sure as heck gave GW a rough time.
Report Post »beauxdog
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:23pm@Jakartaman
I am all for truth and fairness in the press… but where in the constitution is it mandated that they be the people’s watchdog and not in the pocket of the democrats? I am not a strong historian, but I do believe the press in the day of the founding father’s was far more biased than what we have today. From what I have read, the constitution frees the press to be as biased as they want to be. I agree that it is wrong… but the constitution guarantees freedom of the press… not a fair and balanced press.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:57pmthat is odd; my local public radio and TV say NPR gives them some Fed money. Not that they get Fed money and give it to NPR
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:58pmso who is lying????????????
Report Post »fedfreakingup
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:55pmFilthy scumbags are just mad that got caught and there true colors came out.Where’s the rest of the media? NPR GET”S how much in public funding? O’keefe and this chick must be smoking some good stuff! Go Glen for bring attention to this.If the Tea Party got caught doing this every media station would be nothing playing over and over again. They are a bunch of hypocrits. Those who support like loser Soros can foot the bill for there crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »getperks
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:55pmThe same argument remains. If the product is good enough the people will support it privatly.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:55pmIt made her angry because this stupid idiot exposed the hidden beliefs of her friends
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:54pmWell, what did they expect?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:06pmThank you, The Blaze, for honest reporting. We who read The Blaze appreciate the TRUTH, not slanted journalism.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:53pmWah, Wha, Wha, Cry me a river! Bottom line is make a choice Soros’ money or tax payers money, sorry wrong choice!
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:52pmOh, I’m still ticked at the local NPR stations that stated the members of the Tea Party were “teabaggers”. I wrote to our local station, because we used to listen to Sunday Morning Baroque on the way to and from church, but no longer do so because of that. I also sent a letter to the main office in Washington, D.C., so if the radio stations lose their public funding, fine by me.
Report Post »Colhauser
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:50pmwhere is it?
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:49pmHmmmmmmmmmm. Go figure.
Report Post »Sparhawk
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:48pmPBS and NPR agreed with something Glenn Beck/The Blaze said? I know there was recently a nasty earthquake, but did it flip the world upside-down?
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:53pmThat is not what the article said – go back and read the link referred to!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-JM
Report Post »butler180
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:13pmNo they are trying to get a crumb or two to the Conservatives. They figure if the pet us a little we will settle down and not hold them accountable for their over the top Liberal views
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:36pmOr maybe they’re not disagreeing with Beck just for being Beck and actually looking at what he has to say?
What a novel concept.
Report Post »chickenfried
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:48pmI wonder if any MSM outlets will give credit where credit is due…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:56pmLOL … roflmao ..
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:48pmI wonder if Beck will do the same and credit Alex Jones.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:06pm@bobodu
Report Post »Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:48pm
I wonder if Beck will do the same and credit Alex Jones.
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How about Van Jones? Will he do?
Insipid
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:46pmThe mainstream is starting to awaken. Woo Hoo !
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:54pmThe MSM admitting Glenn is right about something?….never thought that would happen….
Report Post »Uncle Crusty
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:57pmI’m in shock, some truth from the lame-stream media? who woulda thunk it? Good for them, maybe we still have a chance in America yet!
sissykatz
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:21pmCONGRATS TO GLENN AND “THE BLAZE” STAFF for doing all the work you do and having ethics and doing HONEST reporting. GOOD JOB!!!
Obama Bin Lying
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:26pmNow if only MSNBC would come out of thier kool aid induced coma. I think some one should tell Madcow that she needs to drink the kool aid…not sniff it
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:36pmToo bad The Blaze can’t say that about alot of what the MSM reports – and there is really no excuse for it unless their staff is so inept they can’t resource. In the “big picture”, the network that is honest, fair and balanced will always be #1.
Report Post »Templar Knight
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:45pmGlenn has been right on just about everything, but of course they will only claim he is right when it is in their favor. Glenn has no agenda as he just wants the truth to be out there. On a side note, the Government still needs to cut funding to NPR as they are still a very Liberal biased organization and does not deserve tax payer dollars. Let them survive on their own standing.
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:53pmI wonder what the trolls have to say about that…. Broker, jzs, encimon????
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:11pmOK OK, let’s not get too excited about this “endorsement”. The only reason they are reporting this story and giving credit to GB and the Blaze is because they reported on the unedited content and how some things were presented without the appropriate context. So it places them in a more favorable light. That is why they are “selectively” endorsing the Blaze on this issue. Just let it be an area that doesn’t fit their agenda and they will get right back to their castigation of GB and the Blaze. Mark my words.
Report Post »reino71
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:13pmEasy now. Don’t get carried away.
Report Post »mill
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:19pmthis m ay be the beginnin of the end…of something..
..OR>> how about the beginning of the ability to recognize that Beck/Blaze actually deals in facts..
It is nice..it won’t last , but it’s nice…maybe some of telling the truth will rub off…hahaha
Report Post »tesla V
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:20pmThe mainstream knows what has been going on.They are just trying to save face by reporting what most people know.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:28pmAnd From the Network that let Glenn go or fired him. I remember his reporting on the Bush Admins bending of the Constitution and wanted to see more not less of him on CNN. Since CNN had him hidden on the Headline News Channel at CNN he was being wasted. And when he came over to Fox News along with other CNN and MSNBC reporters it made the move to Fox a no brainer.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:28pmNow this I have to admit is a major event, while the progressives and the left have admitted to the Blaze staff and Glenn being right on the money here, look for the usual attacks and lies to continue.
I pray though that their eyes are finally opening, and maybe, before it becomes too late, some of them will find a backbone and take a stand for what is right instead of what is politically correct and expedient at the time.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:40pmUnfortunately, The Blaze has a nasty habit of simply reposting heavily edited clips from Naked Emperor and Brietbart. However, in this case the people at The Blaze did their homework, looked at the unedited copy. Every site, left or right, should be doing this with these kind of clips. The Blaze did a good job here, and they deserve to be congratulated.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:52pmNPR is deceitful , biased, underhanded and wastes taxpayer dollars.
Report Post »Same is true for Unions, Planned Parenthood, Acorn, etc…
And they ALL are connected to Obama and his administration.
Should be easy for him to be voted out of office with an informed public.
Thanks to Glenn Beck the public is more informed than ever before.
Its funny that CNN invoked Beck to lend their broadcast some credibility.
drbage
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:37pm@Grandmaof5: MSM is not reporting it because they have all their Soros-funded “investigative journalists” looking into everything that Glenn, Bill, Michelle, Sean, Anne, etal says or writes and trying to figure out a way to spin it so as to make them look bad or evil.
Report Post »Joe Tuesday Dienstag
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:44pmThey are still more upset with how the story was made, and the ethics of secretly filming the meeting. O, and a little upset about what he said. Hypocrites til the very end. There is truly no help for these people.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:47pmNot that the MSM has ever given me any sort of reason to doubt them, but I have to wonder if this isn’t some sort of set-up for something nefarious.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:17pmWay to keep up CNN!
Report Post »Have to agree with other posters…soros is up to something..
by looking at all these tapes, npr, planned parenthood, acorn…you’d have to be a real twit not to see where these “organizations” are coming from…I pray that congress gets going more on all this garbage.
dgboy
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:26pmNow lets see if they will do any factual reporting!
Report Post »Chris G
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:27pm“CONGRATS TO GLENN AND “THE BLAZE” STAFF for doing all the work you do and having ethics and doing HONEST reporting. GOOD JOB!!!”
Hey SISSYKATZ,
You’re absolutely RIGHT! Now if they could only learn to proof read & spell check!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 4:36pmI have to admit the Blaze did an awesome job on this one (I didn’t read it at the time). But I‘m surprised by now that people will believe any edited video make by O’Keefe, Breitbart or any of those people. Breitbart is being sued for defamation for taking video of Shirley Sherrod and editing it in such a way to make it appear she was saying the exact opposite of what she was actually saying. Several DAs laughingly dismissed charges against ACORN employees once they saw the unedited tape (O’Keefe nor his assistant were wearing the pimp or prostitute clothes for example). I could go on.
These guys have a cynical and unethical strategy: secretly tape members of an organization, edit the video in such a way to make the person look as bad as possible, and put the video out on the internet. By the time the truth comes out, the damage is done. For once, the Blaze didn’t go along.
And congratulation to anyone who watched the video from CNN. If it had been FOX, you’d have had Megan Kelley or whomever not interviewing, but debating with and talking over the guests, trying to make them look as bad as possible. The CNN piece is more what real journalism looks like.
Congratulations Blaze on this one.
Report Post »Buck_Ofama
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:11pmI think maybe you’re right. Do you ride a Motorcycle? Woooooo–Hooooo!
Report Post »QuietTexan
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:25pmAs opposed to an “awakening moment”, Im thinking its more of a “wet finger / right-of-center wind-blowing” moment. And just that, a “moment”. I would not look for this to be a reoccurring theme nor change of direction from the MSM.
Report Post »White Devil
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:41pmWhat a crock. They still don’t get it. They still spout that they NEED public money. They do not and they are wrong to say that cities out in the country need public radio for news is a lie. You can get news from around the world at night on a hand held AM radio with a 9 volt battery. They, like all libs, can’t believe they can live without other peoples money. They need to try to survive in the business sector and see how little people really care about them. They will wither on the vine.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:42pmI love the smell of truth in the morning!
It’s morning in America. Time to wake up and stop those who would crush our freedom of speech.
Thanks to Glenn Beck, America has a second chance.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:45pmReally? You have to be a brain dead moron to think for even an hour the programming at any NPR station has been anything but leftist propaganda in the last 4 decades.
Report Post »They are in lock step with an administration that as one of its first acts declared that honorably discharged veterans and combat veterans are the most dangerous to the US population.
These people see the jihadi’s and George Soros as their best friends! They hate potato farmers in Idaho more than Osama bin Ladin.
Devil Dog 7175
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:59pmI’ll bet it about killed them to have to admit that.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:47pmDo you even know that the reference was to this? http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/ The surprise comes from willingness for a Blaze editor to NOT gloss over the obvious “tactic” of creative editing to paint a picture. O’Keefe and Breitbart have shown their cards. My kudos too to Scott for being willing to call this out.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:42pmThe Blaze is no joke! Just don’t screw up !!!!!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:04pm@sissykatz
Report Post »Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:21pm
CONGRATS TO GLENN AND “THE BLAZE” STAFF for doing all the work you do and having ethics and doing HONEST reporting. GOOD JOB!!!
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Here here (or is it Hear hear?)!
jzs
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:30pmNeoFan, the report you’re referencing about the rise right wing extremists was written by the Department of Homeland Security during the Bush administration. Even Alex Jones, the respected leader of the right admits it:
http://www.infowars.com/dhs-rightwing-extremism-document-created-during-bush-administration/
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:35pmI cant wait to hear from Glenn tomorrow. Atleat there is something positive to hear him talk about. So much has happened while he has been off. I welcome him back. However I do not know how much rest he really got.
Report Post »BecksADweeb
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:04pmThe Blaze published a reliable report.
Now that’s news!
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:06amIf what O’Keefe did was unethical, then why isn’t this clown boycotting every major primetime news show on television? If using a false premise while engaging in investigative journalism is “unethical”, then how the hell does this clown propose that anyone ever bust up a corruption ring, let alone the mafia, or even pigford?
Report Post »Ken
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:13am@OBL: Don’t hold your breath on Madcow or Sgt. Schultz’s “awakening.” They’re both in an irreversable funk!
Report Post »abc
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:42amThis shouldn’t surprise people. The MSM is objective, so they cannot always find Beck wrong. Only biased propaganda organizations like Fox always find the other side wrong. This is more a credit to CNN than to the Blaze.
Report Post »Mamagrizz
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 12:13pmInstead of admitting that NPR is being biased and unethical they still just make excuses- she actually said.‘You don’t express your views to someone you don‘t know at a business meeting’. Duh. This reeks of hidden agendas to me. Why don’t they all just adopt the TELL THE TRUTH, QUESTION WITH BOLDNESS policy. Just what are they hiding? Now we know.
Report Post »d55may
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:37pmRight! That was hardly a gleaming endorsement of The Blaze. It does tell as that CNN thinks they are “the middle”
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