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<!--QuoteBegin-Narfwak+Apr 6 2004, 05:47 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Narfwak @ Apr 6 2004, 05:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Caboose+Apr 6 2004, 03:38 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Caboose @ Apr 6 2004, 03:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You know what'd be nice? A nice Moderate Talk Radio Station. You know, somthing that isn't like, "BOMB THOSE DIRTY TOWED HEADS" or "War is murder, save the rainforest, heh" <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Sure, they do a lot of making fun of the news, but in the last two years they've had a very large number of political figures from both the right and the left come on the show, and Jon always gives people the opportunity to express their views without cutting them off (he cracks jokes at them, but they're obvious, goofy jokes, not subtle and malicious ones). While it's not purist political commentary, it's definitely good comedy, and that alone is good enough for me.
You might also listen to Talk of the Nation on NPR. It's a call-in show that is generally very open-minded and moderate. They have guests from both sides of the political spectrum, give each the opportunity to talk, but don't let them get into childish ranting or bickering. Also, because it's NPR, there isn't any corporate pandering or advertising. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Because it's all paid for by the taxpayers.
UZiEight inches of C4 between the legs.Join Date: 2003-02-20Member: 13767Members
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<!--QuoteBegin-Narfwak+Apr 6 2004, 10:18 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Narfwak @ Apr 6 2004, 10:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Then listen and get your money's worth. It's some of the only real journalism left on the airwaves in this country. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Sure, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I prefer Drudge myself, and it don't cost me anything. Or teach me how to be socialist.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Because it's all paid for by the taxpayers. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Still trying to convince me that you aren't deluded parrot who'll repeat any spin point, regardless of whether it's true or not?
Here, let me point you to : <a href='http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html' target='_blank'>http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. <b>NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support.</b> NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - <b>between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget</b> - comes from <b>competitive grants</b> sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report). <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So, let me ask you something. It's pretty clear here that someone told you that NPR was paid for by the taxpayers because they wanted to repeat it and spread the attack. In other words, they misled you in order to use you. How does that make you feel?
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I prefer Drudge myself, and it don't cost me anything. Or teach me how to be socialist. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes, because Richard Perle, the Cato Institute, the Brookings Institution and other common guests on NPR shows are all die-hard socialists. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> I don't think I've heard a single guest or host on an NPR program from listening at work in the last year that had anything good to say about socialism.
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Incorrect; please check your facts.
A quote from the NY Times. The short version: 1) AAR leased air time from Multicultural in February and March, but didn't begin broadcasting until March 31. 2) Multicultural decided to make the best of a situation, and RE-LEASED the airtime AAR wasn't using (but had paid for) to another station. 3) AAR found out and cancelled the check, which was for only $156,000. Only weeks before, Multicultural had deposited a check from AAR for $315,000 which *had* cleared.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Air America Radio Is Dropped From Stations in 2 Big Markets</b> <i>By JACQUES STEINBERG Published: April 15, 2004</i>
Just two weeks after its maiden broadcast, Air America Radio, the liberal talk-radio network, was suddenly taken off the air yesterday by two stations in two of the major markets where it leases broadcast time - Los Angeles and Chicago - as a result of a contractual dispute.
Evan Cohen, the chairman of Air America, said that Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, the owner of the network's affiliates in Los Angeles and Chicago, had replaced the network's shows with alternative programming just after 7 a.m. local time in each city.
Arthur Liu, the owner of Multicultural, which is based in New York, was quoted on the Web site of The Chicago Tribune yesterday afternoon as saying that he had taken the action after his company tried to cash a check from Air America and it bounced.
The Tribune quoted Mr. Liu as saying that Air America, which is majority-owned by Progress Media, owed Multicultural Radio more than $1 million.
Mr. Liu did not respond yesterday to several messages left at his office.
Mr. Cohen, however, said that Multicultural owed money to Air America. He said that Mr. Liu's company had recently deposited a check from Air America for $315,000, and that it had cleared. But Mr. Cohen said that Air America had stopped payment on a second check, for $156,000, after Air America discovered that Multicultural had leased air time on its Los Angeles station to another programmer in February and March, before Air America went on the air on March 31.
While not broadcasting during that time, Mr. Cohen said, Air America had already leased that time from Multicultural and was thus entitled to any fees collected.
The Air America programming could still be heard yesterday in nearly a dozen markets, including New York City. It said it was preparing last night to ask a judge in New York to order Multicultural to put the programming back on the air on its stations in Chicago and Los Angeles.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-Apos+Apr 7 2004, 01:29 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Apos @ Apr 7 2004, 01:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Because it's all paid for by the taxpayers. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Still trying to convince me that you aren't deluded parrot who'll repeat any spin point, regardless of whether it's true or not?
Here, let me point you to : <a href='http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html' target='_blank'>http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. <b>NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support.</b> NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - <b>between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget</b> - comes from <b>competitive grants</b> sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report). <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So, let me ask you something. It's pretty clear here that someone told you that NPR was paid for by the taxpayers because they wanted to repeat it and spread the attack. In other words, they misled you in order to use you. How does that make you feel? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> the term there is "grants"
It doesn't matter how much gets paid, federal funding shouldn't go into NPR. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Sure, they do a lot of making fun of the news, but in the last two years they've had a very large number of political figures from both the right and the left come on the show, and Jon always gives people the opportunity to express their views without cutting them off (he cracks jokes at them, but they're obvious, goofy jokes, not subtle and malicious ones). While it's not purist political commentary, it's definitely good comedy, and that alone is good enough for me.
You might also listen to Talk of the Nation on NPR. It's a call-in show that is generally very open-minded and moderate. They have guests from both sides of the political spectrum, give each the opportunity to talk, but don't let them get into childish ranting or bickering. Also, because it's NPR, there isn't any corporate pandering or advertising. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Because it's all paid for by the taxpayers.
I'll try to find out about that NPR thing...
Edit: Noon-2 pm "Talk of the Nation" in Denver on KCFR-AM: 1340.0
<a href='http://www.npr.org/stations/' target='_blank'>http://www.npr.org/stations/</a>
Sure, <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I prefer Drudge myself, and it don't cost me anything. Or teach me how to be socialist.
Still trying to convince me that you aren't deluded parrot who'll repeat any spin point, regardless of whether it's true or not?
Here, let me point you to :
<a href='http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html' target='_blank'>http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. <b>NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support.</b> NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - <b>between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget</b> - comes from <b>competitive grants</b> sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report).
<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So, let me ask you something. It's pretty clear here that someone told you that NPR was paid for by the taxpayers because they wanted to repeat it and spread the attack. In other words, they misled you in order to use you. How does that make you feel?
Yes, because Richard Perle, the Cato Institute, the Brookings Institution and other common guests on NPR shows are all die-hard socialists. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> I don't think I've heard a single guest or host on an NPR program from listening at work in the last year that had anything good to say about socialism.
<a href='http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0414043air1.html' target='_blank'>http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0414043air1.html</a>
Their check bounced. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
A quote from the NY Times. The short version:
1) AAR leased air time from Multicultural in February and March, but didn't begin broadcasting until March 31.
2) Multicultural decided to make the best of a situation, and RE-LEASED the airtime AAR wasn't using (but had paid for) to another station.
3) AAR found out and cancelled the check, which was for only $156,000. Only weeks before, Multicultural had deposited a check from AAR for $315,000 which *had* cleared.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Air America Radio Is Dropped From Stations in 2 Big Markets</b>
<i>By JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: April 15, 2004</i>
Just two weeks after its maiden broadcast, Air America Radio, the liberal talk-radio network, was suddenly taken off the air yesterday by two stations in two of the major markets where it leases broadcast time - Los Angeles and Chicago - as a result of a contractual dispute.
Evan Cohen, the chairman of Air America, said that Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, the owner of the network's affiliates in Los Angeles and Chicago, had replaced the network's shows with alternative programming just after 7 a.m. local time in each city.
Arthur Liu, the owner of Multicultural, which is based in New York, was quoted on the Web site of The Chicago Tribune yesterday afternoon as saying that he had taken the action after his company tried to cash a check from Air America and it bounced.
The Tribune quoted Mr. Liu as saying that Air America, which is majority-owned by Progress Media, owed Multicultural Radio more than $1 million.
Mr. Liu did not respond yesterday to several messages left at his office.
Mr. Cohen, however, said that Multicultural owed money to Air America. He said that Mr. Liu's company had recently deposited a check from Air America for $315,000, and that it had cleared. But Mr. Cohen said that Air America had stopped payment on a second check, for $156,000, after Air America discovered that Multicultural had leased air time on its Los Angeles station to another programmer in February and March, before Air America went on the air on March 31.
While not broadcasting during that time, Mr. Cohen said, Air America had already leased that time from Multicultural and was thus entitled to any fees collected.
The Air America programming could still be heard yesterday in nearly a dozen markets, including New York City. It said it was preparing last night to ask a judge in New York to order Multicultural to put the programming back on the air on its stations in Chicago and Los Angeles.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Still trying to convince me that you aren't deluded parrot who'll repeat any spin point, regardless of whether it's true or not?
Here, let me point you to :
<a href='http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html' target='_blank'>http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. <b>NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support.</b> NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - <b>between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget</b> - comes from <b>competitive grants</b> sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report).
<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So, let me ask you something. It's pretty clear here that someone told you that NPR was paid for by the taxpayers because they wanted to repeat it and spread the attack. In other words, they misled you in order to use you. How does that make you feel? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
the term there is "grants"
It doesn't matter how much gets paid, federal funding shouldn't go into NPR. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->