[Buddha-l] NPR, TotN

[Chan Fu]

On 10/5/05, Bshmr at aol.com <Bshmr at aol.com> wrote:
>
> The first hour of NPR's Talk of the Nation on Wednesday, 2005/10/05 was on:
>
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4946306
>
> Conservatives Call for Equal Time on Campus
>
> Some Republicans in Congress are calling for an Academic Bill of Rights that
> would require dissenting viewpoints be heard in college classrooms. They say
> it would correct a long-standing lean to the left on American college
> campuses.
>
> **
>
> I appreciate the new/temp host but damn subtlety has limits which can be
> approached at the very least. NPR as imitation VOA is tiring.

NPR tries hard, but it's still federally funded - at least
until its funding is cut to buy more arms and support
the religious war(s). So any deference to reason must
be carefully thought out and presented as blandly as
possible. A very large percentage of media bandwidth
in the US is now owned and operated by the religious
right. When NPR is shut down, which it may well be,
those will be the remaining "voices" of America.