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I have, just tonight, been watching KIIN 12 Iowa Public TV Antiques Road Show and the subsequent program.

I just saw an advertisement for National Public TV that floored me.   It was how Public TV news is the "most trusted" and we should all watch public TV for their convention coverage, yada, yada.

     Now I'm going to illustrate why I think this ad is crazy.  I'll use an analogy:

 

Public TV workers are hogs at the trough.  Now two farmers are vying for the job of running the hog farm and are promising two different things.  (By the way, you and I buy the feed for the farm - and we also eat the hogs - a little at a time because we love them so much).

One farmer is promising to cut off the public funded feed.

The other farmer is promising to continue, and maybe increase, the public funded feed.

Now the hogs want us (the feed buyers and hog eaters) to listen to them and they will tell us the "true story" of these farmers so we can decide who we want to hire to run the hog farm.

Now, do you really think these hogs will report things in a totally unbiased manner?  Really?    Really?

 I  think I need to write those old hogs and those farmers a letter about this!

September 3rd 2012 Report Reply

Let's remember when they got caught:

 

Thursday, January 6, 2011; 10:11 PM

 

NPR's top news editor resigned Thursday after an internal review found that the Washington news organization mishandled the firing of news analyst Juan Williams over controversial remarks he made on a TV program in October.

 

In an additional piece of fallout from the firing, NPR's board voted to cancel the annual bonus of NPR's chief executive, Vivian Schiller, who supported the decision to fire Williams and made some ill-timed comments about it, for which she later apologized.

 

At the time of Williams's firing, Schiller backed Weiss's decision and later quipped that Williams should have kept his feelings about Muslims between himself and "his psychiatrist or his publicist." She apologized to Williams and called the remark "thoughtless."

 

As press they fight again and again for free speech and freedom of the press. But yet, internally, they stifled free speech of their news analyst by firing him....over the phone.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010603649.html

 

September 4th 2012 Report Reply
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