Barbara Roberts wrote:
> Try to model the balance you'd like to hear from Public Radio.
Thank you for the constructive suggestions.
I am not sure what the balance should be between government propaganda
and what is happening in the real world, but they are not currently
approaching it.
For example, did you hear the utterly embarrassing and pathetic
performance by the President last night, and then how they sanitized
in the commentary afterwards? They took a couple of things he said
out of context, pretended that he was presenting cogent and coherent
statements. Instead of bringing in opposing points of view (and most
people in this country, by a large margin, opposes the policies Bush
was flogging at that press conference) or even objective "experts" he
interviewed two other NPR reporters who have been "covering" these
issues for NPR. I despise this practice, and it seems to be getting
worse all the time.
I realize this forum is not really fertile ground to raise these
issues - it started as a forum to discuss "The Conversation" which has
always been mostly fluff anyway. However, what I found strikingly new
is Reynold's attempted attack on Ralph Nader when he was a guest. He
came off more as a peevish chihuahua than a pitbull, the change in
tone from his usual go along to get along approach was quite striking.
Ross has worked in public sector broadcasting for many, many years.
First in community stations, then in public stations. He's now with
the biggest one in this market, and he's probably scrutinizing the
ceiling and thinking about the car, mortgage, baby expenses, future
college expenses that he might have - the things that people
accumulate by the time they get to be his age. So if the trends are
to the right, he will follow the drift, as they all do, because it's
not easy to get out and make an honest man of himself again.
Did he get explicit instructions to lean on Nader? Was Steve Sherer
told to treat Greg Palast like a kook? I don't know what the
mechanisms are. The internal workings are a black box to me, I can
only evaluate by what comes out. At first I had only anecdotal
evidence from my own observations; FAIRs reports are extensive,
thorough and systematic, and confirm what I've seen (on the national
level).
The Board that governs NPR is appointed by Bush. Kevin Klose argued -
unconvincingly - that they are able to resist the pressure the board
puts on them.
Who is on the governing board of KUOW? Has there been a shift in
membership lately? Pressure to attack Nader would be more likely to
come from Dems. Dems have strong motivation to pretend that our
elections have integrity (Gore and Kerry both failed to challenge
widespread irregularities from fraud and incompetence), so pressure
could have come from Dems to treat Palast like a pariah. Is the board
made up of Democrats-in-name-only like Locke or Locke appointees?
These are the sorts of things I'm interested in knowing, and I'd like
some assistance, if anybody is interested in getting involved. I
realize that when the three branches of the government of this
republic are collapsing into one imperial structure right before our
very eyes, it's hard to worry about KUOW. It's hard to know where to
start, which is part of the problem that activists face. It seems to
me that this is as good of a place to start as any.
From: Barbara Roberts
Subject: Re: Long time no post...
Hey Matt: Chill. Wasn't Chomsky great?
Have you been listening this week?
Maybe the screeners select for praise, but there seem to be lots of listeners
happy with the programming.
I think you should write your posts in pencil and edit them.
Try to model the balance you'd like to hear from Public Radio.
Barbara
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