Thursday, May 08, 2008
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Reason 56,783 You Should Be Pumped Your Tax Dollars Are Paying for NPR
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
2:53 PM
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On the Diane Rehm show yesterday: David Rothenberg, philosopher, musician, and "expert in inter-species duets," who has written a book called "Thousand-Mile Song," which chronicles the magic of whale songs and his attempts to perform with the whales by broadcasting his own music underwater. Mmm-hmm.
Rehm offered a 51-minute interview with him, which included these incisive questions. Only on NPR...
How are you physically playing this clarinet along with the whales?
Was there any indication that the whales found what you were doing interesting?
At one point, a caller suggests that perhaps the whale songs are a form of prayer, at which point we get this doozy from Diane:
Do you think it could bring peace to the world through prayer? It was so utterly ludicrous as to border on parody. Yes, Diane, whale songs broadcast around the world will undoubtedly stop the genocide in Darfur, the bloodlust of al Qaeda in Iraq, the nuclear ambitions of Ahmadinejad, and let's not forget the unchecked imperial lust of the United States of America, which is likely what she had in mind.
Either whale songs or Obama should do the trick. Come to think of it, Obama's foreign policy is about as unintelligible as whale songs. Peace is on the way! Suggesting that praying to Jesus or a Judeo-Christian God would bring peace would likely have gotten her fired, however.
I listen so you don't have to. But you're paying for it!
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All these NPR dollars we're wasting should be going to bombing Iraqis! |
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Zionist controlled NPR, I may add!!! |
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Even though there are actually some good shows on NPR -- Morning Edition, Car Talk, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Prairie Home Companion -- there are obviously some bad ones like Diane Rehm, who we thankfully don't get in my area.
That said, PEOPLE WHO DON'T LISTEN TO DIANE REHM SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO PAY FOR OTHERS WHO DO!
How about a "Public Broadcasting Fairness Doctrine?" It would go like this: No taxpayer shall be unfairly forced to pay for programming they don't support or enjoy. That simple!
PBS/NPR stations would actually benefit from losing the small amount of funding they recieve from taxpayers for the following reasons:
1. The controversy over federal funding would end.
2. A stronger case can be made at "pledge time". Tell listeners: "The quality programming you hear is made possible entirely by listeners like you. We recieve no money from the Federal Government, so your generous dollars really do matter. Thank you for generously supporting non-commercial, non-corporate broadcasting.
Based on some of the shows i've seen and heard on public broadcasting, I would actually be more willing to lend my support, if I knew a portion of my taxes weren't already paying for it.
PBS/NPR should reconsider their stance. |
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I went out in a submarine and I taped the whales talking for thirty days and nights. I transcribed their feelings, thoughts, and opininons on topics.
I came to find out it was just the cabin door squeaking. Doh! |
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Putting (me &) the kids to sleep on a long road trip...priceless. |
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If they can get 95% from private fund why is the Fed even pitching in? This is why I don't subscribe to PBS. When they stop getting funding from my hard earned money, through revenue redistribution, I'll consider it. My dues are paid in full. |
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The last I checked, subsidizing poor radio wasn't a power given to the federal government.
No, I am not going to get over it. |
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NPR gets 95 percent of its money through private funding, only 5 percent from the Feds.
Get over it.
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I avoid NPR like the plague unless I need a sleep aid, in the grand scheme of government giveaways, I'm far more concerned with the farm hogs. |
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The difference is Clear Channel knows when to broadcast to kooks. |
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Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Roy I can only see your post as sarcasm. |
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NPR is a great resource, a fine alternative to corporate media, just as public TV is. Our country would be poorer without them. I drove through Iowa last December (on my way to being an Obama volunteer) and was grateful to have something beside pop music, C&W and RW talk to listen to. |
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Good God lady, you had to listen to that!?!
Whatever they're paying you...it's not enough! |
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