Well, there you have it. lots of listeners happy. I have this antiquated
idea about journalism being about getting at the truth, rather than a
popularity contest.
Matt Love wrote:
>Barbara Roberts wrote:
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>>Try to model the balance you'd like to hear from Public Radio.
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>Thank you for the constructive suggestions.
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>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...
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>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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>Matt Love
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