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My money is going to fund it...
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wut?
My money is going to fund it...
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Save NPR!
A majority of their money come from private donors.
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I love NPR's
The Thistle and Shamrock -> http://www.thistleradio.com/index.ph...572&Itemid=109
and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me -> http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/
Wooooo!!!
Re: Save NPR!
Pull the funding. I love my local station, WNYC. They actually pay NPR, BBC, Marketplace, etc for the shows. Public radio can simply raise their rates to supplement the loss in grant money and local stations can do a longer money drive. NPR I find to be rather biased and I don't tend to enjoy their programs. I prefer the local NY commentary by Lehrer (amazing) and Lopate (very interesting). Marketplace is fantastic along with BBC world, of course. I love Al Jazeera and I hate Fox News, BTW.
Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 02-16-2011 at 15:54.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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I only eve listen to the government-funded radio stations, P1, P2 and P3.
I will never switch over to the private crap, none of that ad-funded nonsense for me!
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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WNYC is publicly funded. NPR is a fee based news service, don't let them fool you. They charge small stations to carry their programs. Maybe they don't have "profits", but that doesn't mean they arn't money hungry and that they don't compromise themselves.
Listen to everything as long as it doesn't sound overtly biased (ie; russia today, Fox news, MSNBC). MSNBC seems to be coming out of its insanity by producing Lawrence O'Donnell, supporting shows like "Morning Joe" and firing scumbags like Olberman. Read blogs, listen to local radio, watch real-ish tv news, go to newsites. When you rely on one source of information you will be brainwashed.
Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 02-16-2011 at 16:33.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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What is bold isn't really a substantiated argument by any means and as such doesn't really justify pulling the funding away. From your ranting about MSNBC and Olbermann, it seems you are with the crowd that wants to pull public funding because you don't "agree" with it most of the time (although you try hard to not give this impression by going out of the way to say you love Al Jazeera and hate Fox News).
Again, I find it funny that people asking for funding to be pulled always talk about going out there and finding other sources on the internet and not letting yourself being brainwashed by one source of information, but why exactly does this justify attempting to reduce the overall numbers of sources to choose from?
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