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Debate: Do Liberals Stifle Intellectual Diversity On The College Campus?
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/03/390254974/debate-do-liberals-stifle-intellectual-diversity-on-the-college-campus
And conservanuts point to NPR and Judy Miller's NY Times as evidence of a liberal media....
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Perhaps because colleges and universities do not exist to promote intellectually bankrupt dogma?
surrealAmerican
(11,339 posts)secular intellectuals are rarely asked to speak in evangelical churches.
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)If by *intellectual diversity*
you want include anti-intellectual,
faith-based, fact-free,
incoherence.
Intellectualism has a liberal bias
sendero
(28,552 posts)..... xactly.
derby378
(30,252 posts)...I have the right to make your children believe the universe is shaped like Abe Vigoda! I want my taxpayer grant now!!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)The lies I heard go unchallenged on NPR in 2007 proved to me that they are a solidly biased source.
That isn't to say that there isn't some good programming. They must preserve some honest content or the propaganda will become ineffective.
NPR does not deserve us.
Fuck NPR.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)I gave them up during the run up to the Iraq war - clearly in the pocket of the Neocon war mongerers ...
That was it ... I shut them down and deprogrammed the radio button ...
tech3149
(4,452 posts)Liberal by definition is not intolerant or prejudiced and willing to base their opinion on a broad basis of information.
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)They have some great shows. I especially enjoy the funny shows on the weekends.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)I have also just discovered "Love + Radio" which is pretty great. My Public Radio app is one of the most used on my phone and the local WPR station is locked on my car radio.
I <3 NPR.
sendero
(28,552 posts)....are very good. Their news programming went off the rails sometime around 2000-2002.
Orrex
(63,084 posts)Too bad that the flagship shows Morning Edition and All Things Considered are so shitty.
a kennedy
(29,460 posts)Click and Clack the Tappet, (RIP Tom), Brothers. I also love Kathleen Dunn, local Milwaukee host of WPR, she's great and still a liberal hostess that I really enjoy. But as a rule, the National Public Radio has gone to the dark side.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)a kennedy
(29,460 posts)Ugh...... I just despise him. Ugh.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)He's the worst.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)Yes, they have some good shows. Non-political shows. Political shit, posed in the best Fox-like way such as "Do liberals stifle diversity" however...
cbayer
(146,218 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)I'd say they do: they insure we have smart, intellectual students without diversity in morons, cretins, blockheads, dimwits, and such.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Liberals 'stifle' the sort of 'intellectual diversity' that comes up with excuses to rape drunk women or assault gay people, for instance.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)They covered a debate. It could have gone either way.
Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)Why not ask generally
about the quality of
intellectual debate?
In REALITY, it's the
conservatives who are
stifling debate.
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)Cosmic Kitten
(3,498 posts)LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)Fox promotes content such as "Obama: Muslim out to ruin America?"
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)How about you?
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Then it would be appropriate to compare the Intelligence Squared debates to Fox News.
I listened to the podcast version and I have no problem with it. I suspect most of the people complaining don't. There have been previous debates titled Abolish the Death Penalty, Legalize Assisted Suicide and Income Inequality Impairs the American Dream of Upward Mobility.
Every debate is framed with a proposition yes or no. It stems from the format used by the Oxford Union style debates. Instead people who don't understand that format are offended because the are on the "wrong" side of the proposition. Ironically it suggests that the proposition has at least some validity.
central scrutinizer
(11,616 posts)I stopped listening to NPR after the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. The reporter, ON THE FUCKING SCENE FER CRISSAKES, was describing how peaceful and well ordered the protests were. The host, Scott Simon I believe, back in DC kept yelling at her, "But what about the broken windows at Starbucks and the dumpsters set on fire". She repeated how calm everything was but Simon was having none of it - he really wanted to marginalize and demonize the protestors.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)I noticed a change about 5 years ago...and stopped tuning in...it's apparently gotten much worse?
2naSalit
(86,040 posts)and some of their "political reporters" are also Fuxnooz employees. The demise was designed by none other than Mr. contract on America, the one and only sNewt grinchwich back in late '94 (?) after he was questioned about a $4million "book deal" with Rupert Murdoch who was being investigated for something by Congress. sNewt was so pissed that he started the kill NPR campaign and NPR responded by dividing up into the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to protect itself but has since been bought out in some probably secret leveraged buyout, probably by NewsCorp.
Can't find it in any archive but I remember it well, sNewt was asked about the alleged book deal with the reporter asking him if he couldn't see the impropriety of the deal. sNewt responded with, "No. So Mr' Murdoch has a problem with one of the laws/rules... so we'll change the law/rule, then there won't be a problem."
I knew we and public radio were in trouble from that point on.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)even imagined when I "tuned out"....Holy crap!
We've been in trouble re: News since Nixon hooked up w/Ailes back then. The birth of "GOP TV" now known as FOX.
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Don't shoot the messenger.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)The debate DID take place. And they reported on it. I'm really not sure what your beef is.
tritsofme
(17,320 posts)Or prevent potentially controversial figures from speaking on campus instead of engaging them in debate.
Some of those people that seek to stifle debate may be on the left, but they are not liberals in any sense of the word.