Heard on NPR this afternoon...

[Triana]

...after I sent them my nastygram this morning RE: Cokie Roberts, I heard them giving a lot more time/voice to those who have come forward for Kerry regarding the Swift Boat Smears (Rood, and a couple other previously silent vets who have come forward in support of Kerry) and they reviewed the Thurlow debacle as well, ending with an analyst saying that the Swift Boat Liars still haven't given convincing evidence for their claims)...

Don't know if my e-mail did any good, but maybe it did...and I didn't hear the whole broadcast, either so there may be parts I missed.

[Shoeempress]

1. Thank you. NPR is becoming too "even" handed, bending over

back wards to prove they are not liberal.

[buycitgo]

2. they haven't been 'liberal' for awhile

their commentators are quantitatively more conservative now, as well as a LARGE majority of guests

there's a link dealing with the numbers

head of NPR, Kevin Klose:

Before becoming President and Chief Executive Officer of National
Public Radio, Kevin Klose was Director of International Broadcasting at
the U.S. Information Agency - that's the U.S. Government's
'propaganda arm' overseas, charged with running American-funded
and staffed radio and television stations in other countries like the
'Voice of America' network and the anti-Cuban Radio Marti.

Klose has also had trainees in American-run psychological operation
(PsyOp) campaigns intern at NPR during his tenure there -
demonstrating a dangerously close connection between U.S.
disinformation campaigns overseas and the domestic 'public'
radio network.

It's disturbing enough that the head of NPR formerly controled the
propaganda wing of our government, but it was Klose's involvement
(and direction) in the fight against the FCC's low power radio
proposal in 2000 which ultimately killed the plan.

Klose, worried about new low-watt community stations drawing
listener donations away from his agency, mounted a vigorous public
campaign against the service. It was his lobbying on behalf of NPR
- and his enlistment of the interests of blind radio readins services
in the fight - that swayed many Democrats on Capitol Hill to protect
the interests of commercial and public radio at the expense of public
diversity on the airwaves.

Not only is it bad enough that NPR programs are now heavily
corporate-sponsored, but even more ironic is that fact that the start
of National Public Radio as a true national media entity came shortly
after the FCC outlawed 'Class D' non-commercial FM station licenses
- licenses for stations of 10 to 100 watts - in the late 1960's. Klose
wants legal low power radio to stay dead on his watch, and he's
succeeded.
http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/HijackingForDummiesTheProminentCIAMediaOfficialsWhoTargettedPacificaByAlexConstantine.htm

[Shoeempress]

8. No kidding. There was a study not long ago, which revealed that

80% of thier guests are conservative. Drives me Crazy

[DeepModem Mom]

3. For others wishing to contact: LINK TO NPR CONTACT WEBPAGE

http://www.npr.org/contact/

[peacetalksforall]

4. Your praising them and I was just about to blast them in an e-mail for

the way they've handled the news all day. I'm so ticked at the whole mess that I want to scream that every vet should hand back their medals and awards because these freaking rove and spaeth tactics have ruined two heritage concepts in one fell swoop - that medals and recongnition by your government means something and that there were no brave soldiers in Vietnam.

Give back all the awards and stop moaning about Vietnam - wipe it out of our memories.

Bush is a major divider. Another proof that they do the opposite of what they say IN EVERY INSTANCE.

We can't get lower than rove and apaeth and the cabal have taken us.

[peacetalksforall]

6. Dole has been written off my list as a moderate in one 24 hour period...

if I see Clinton appear with him again and call him a friend - I'm going to write off both of them. What a stinking cunning act - said with slime.

[skip fox]

5. Links to SBV story? I'm compiling

a SBV-Gate file with the help of DUers as a reference for us all.

Send post with links (or ideas, tips, etc.) as replies to the early form of the file in DU Editorials:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x69031

[Pepperbelly]

7. ATTENTION LAWYERS!

I listened to Cokie on NPR this morning and she made me roll my eyes so far up into my head that I was injured. Is this actionable?