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Defund NPR, PBS?

Here is why Vivian Schiller, NPR and CPB need to be not only defunded but stopped cold:

http://townhall.com/columnists/Tara...t_of_fcc_govt_takeover_of_the_news/page/full/

As Schiller explained in a speech to the NPR board of directors in 2009, it is public radio’s responsibility to fill the gap in journalism left by dying local television stations and newspapers.

… snip ...The FCC calls what they are doing the “Future of Journalism.” Free Press, a think tank funded by leftist billionaire George Soros, among others, calls it “the new public media.”

It’s all the same thing, a plan to take over local news coverage from for-profit television, radio and print media, which Schiller and her friends claim is in danger of extinction. These “friends” get together regularly with the heads of the FCC and FTC to brainstorm the details in government and congressional meetings. These meetings include the leaders of all the country’s public broadcasting outlets, including PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and American Public Media.

They are beefing up their staffs in local news markets with herds of public news reporters to “take over” coverage as commercial media fails. Nationwide, this will cost $40 billion to $60 billion over a decade, they believe. Their plans, according to the FCC’s Future of Media report, are to raise this money by taxing for-profit news organizations – the ones whose reporting Schiller is supposedly trying to “save.” They want to charge “spectrum fees” of five percent of broadcast station revenues for use of the public spectrum and airwaves, which the government controls. They figure that could bring in $1.8 billion a year. A one percent tax on all electronic devices like cell phones, televisions and laptops could bring in billions more. So would a monthly fee on internet subscriptions.

While conservatives were busy arguing that NPR should be defunded in the wake of the Williams debacle, Schiller was putting the finishing touches on the national infrastructure NPR has launched to deliver this new government news product to cities across the nation. A decade ago, defunding NPR would have sufficed. To stop Schiller now, Republicans would have to defund PBS and CPB as well to have any hope of torpedoing her plans to build a nationwide news delivery system in the style of the BBC, but on steroids.
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The reality is these people (Schiller, Soros, etc) are a bunch of socialists/communists trying to take over the news media. In fact, Schiller even graduated from Cornell with a Bachelor's in Soviet Studies and a Master's in Russian. And then was so enamored with the Soviet communist system that she went to the USSR and became a tour guide. She then helped Turner create a documentary glorifying the USSR (http://spectator.org/blog/2010/10/21/juan-williams-firer-a-soviet-f ). And it's apparent that she has no problem doing what they did to the media in the USSR to the media here in the US ... institute government control. Leftist control. Just like she clearly has at NPR. And did you note what Schiller did to someone who challenged her views even the slightest bit … like Juan Williams? She suggested they need psychiatric help. Just like they used to do in the good ol' Soviet Union. Will that be Schiller's next project after she gets the USA State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting funded and underway? :mad:
 
I must be softening with age but this whole defund NPR issue is pointless. As Upchurch and others have pointed out, there are bigger fish to fry out there and time spent on this is wasted time.
 
applecorped said:
I must be softening with age but this whole defund NPR issue is pointless. As Upchurch and others have pointed out, there are bigger fish to fry out there and time spent on this is wasted time.
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But won't you agree that what Schiller is advocating needs to be stopped? Remember, this isn't just about the cost of NPR, PBS, CPB, relative to our overall economic situation. It's about who controls the media and the information that voters/public use to make decisions. Part of the reason we've gotten into the mess we are now in is that the leftist mainstream media have controlled that media and abused their responsibility to be impartial journalists. Now we want non-impartial government funded government media to replace it? I think that needs to be stopped. And one place to start is by defunding Schiller's power base.
 
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I don't think the commercial networks could produce anything like Nova, especially the dealing with Dover. They would be more interested in not offending anyone and losing viewers and hence ad revenue. Also another reason that the far right wants to get rid of PBS is because their science shows support the theories based on facts and not something they want to be real. Plus I doubt that any commercial network would spend the time needed for something like Sesame Street to get to a point where it is profitable.

As for the Sherlock series I have seen it with commercials but not yet without but I still liked it.
 
lol...Call them ****ers. Call them ********. Call them child molesters. Call them anything, but don't dare call them SOCIALISTS. That would be the lowest of lows...

TAM:)
 
Sword_Of_Truth said:
Democracies need state owned propaganda delivery systems?
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No, and PBS is hardly POLITICAL. NPR, not so sure. However, where would the modern day REP party be without FOX? Perhaps they should get some funding for FOX...oh wait, perhaps the Republican Tea Party should get some funding from...oh wait, that already happened.

TAM;)
 
elbe said:
Well, as long as you think government = evil then that makes perfect sense.
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I'm getting subsidized student loans. I'm now government's servant and must follow any directive they pass down. Or something.
 
elbe said:
Well, as long as you think government = evil then that makes perfect sense.
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It might be better for SOT to start with explaining why "public" equals "state owned" in this context first, and then move to the part about "evil" after there is some demonstrable reason to suggest a connection.

I don't think that describing our public broadcasters as state owned is particularly defensible to begin with, at least not without stretching the concept of "state owned" well beyond any reasonable breaking point.
 
quadraginta said:
I don't think that describing our public broadcasters as state owned is particularly defensible to begin with, at least not without stretching the concept of "state owned" well beyond any reasonable breaking point.
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Don't forget that it's also owned/run by Soros, logic be damned.
 
Sword_Of_Truth said:
Democracies need state owned propaganda delivery systems?
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Are you referring to Stars & Stripes, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Television Marti, or Al-Hurra?

Or does this only apply to the conservative boogeyman of the day, in this case NPR?
 
BeAChooser said:
But won't you agree that what Schiller is advocating needs to be stopped? Remember, this isn't just about the cost of NPR, PBS, CPB, relative to our overall economic situation. It's about who controls the media and the information that voters/public use to make decisions. Part of the reason we've gotten into the mess we are now in is that the leftist mainstream media have controlled that media and abused their responsibility to be impartial journalists. Now we want non-impartial government funded government media to replace it? I think that needs to be stopped. And one place to start is by defunding Schiller's power base.
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There are so many options for news nowadays I can't really agree that anyone controls the media.
 
I am at a loss where this "leftist liberal media conspiracy" thing comes from. You hear this on Fox and I think WTF!?
 
applecorped said:
There are so many options for news nowadays I can't really agree that anyone controls the media.
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Well certainly ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, the NY Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, etc, etc, etc, are controlled by liberals. Sure, there are alternatives, but most people (especially on the left) are too lazy or close minded to look at anything but those sources. And if leftists like Schiller are trying to get $40-50 billion dollars in government funding to set up a government run *news* network to supplant them as they die on the vine, that can only prolong and solidify a liberal control that has been decidely detrimental to this country over the years.
 
BeAChooser said:
Well certainly ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, the NY Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, etc, etc, etc, are controlled by liberals. Sure, there are alternatives, but most people (especially on the left) are too lazy or close minded to look at anything but those sources. And if leftists like Schiller are trying to get $40-50 billion dollars in government funding to set up a government run *news* network to supplant them as they die on the vine, that can only prolong and solidify a liberal control that has been decidely detrimental to this country over the years.
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I'm not really worried. Let's see if all that supposed control helps on Nov. 2nd.
 
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