Absolutely we need to to defend NPR form the corporate interests that control its agenda. It is NOT public as only 10% of its funding comes from the taxpayers!

man i hate the news they just randomly pick shit that is of NO importance and make it news for a week before picking something else for us all to think we are fighting over. in truth we all pretty much think alike... Goverment is just taking charge Religions job of making differences between people so they can keep hating eachother.

I liked when "Bill Moyers Journal" was on PBS. Alot of truth telling on his show. We need to keep PBS and NPR on the air. Not just for the truth telling, but for the great programs they have on that you would not see anywhere else. In fact, my husband and are "Friends of MPTV." We give when we can to keep PBS on the air.

First the video was edited to make it something more than it was. Even Glenn Beck has questions. At its worst Schiller says the Tea'ers are racists, is someone not associated with news content or an editor not allowed to state the obvious.
Let's get a video of News Corp's sales executives the off the record comments might be explosive, but I am sure it would never affect Fox's objective and unbiased reporting.

Defending the indefensible....the speciality of leftard goons.

Why don't people take in what they see and hear, do a little research and form their own opinions. Why does anyone need the media to tell them what to believe?

I think we can judge for ourselves how trustworthy the sources on NPR and PBS are. I for one watch and compare what's being reported to what's being reported on FOX and NPR and PBS are a lot closer to the truth than the later. A perfect example is what's going on in regards to the nuclear problem in Japan, I listened to the FOX spin last night and it considerabley downplayed the dangers and the potential financial loss to the world economy. They were still reporting on how safe nuclear power is...that is a blatant lie. Even after the third reactor explsion.

It seems to me that MSNBC NPR PBS are all ahead in the reporting, it's only after something has become so widely reported, even though intermittantly so, that FOX picks up the story, by then much of what they report is rehashed and outdated.

The real issue about this is why did the CEO and the Schiller who was on the BOD have to step down for their opinion?

Instead of blaming FOX news, which really is a total distraction from the issue, the issue should be "what happened to free speech in America?"

typical liberal...they fuck up ..they blame someone else..the topic is NPR..the biggest content is Fox..diversions and denial

i am skyjust

I listen to NPR every day but I would never support them financially or encourage anyone to listen to them as THE only reliable news source.

It's only slightly better than the right noice machine in the sense that news appears to be more balanced than FOX, but it really isn't.

Their national reports skew the truth just as much as other networks and they tow the government propaganda line on every important issue (foreign policy, economics), it's just that they report it in such a way, most people probably don't even realize it.

RT may not be as polished as NPR, but is far superior in almost every aspect. Plus, when you take a step back and see NPR for what it really is, you'll see that you really can't polish a turd.

good post, thanks for post, +1))))

NPR will survive this just like they've survived all the other right-wing assaults on them. In fact, I'm inclined to believe that support for NPR will grow as a result as this since it will further expose the extent that right wing nuts will go to crush all perceived opposition to the hive mind.

Any conservatives who take issue with with this should be asked if FOX "News" can measure up to the journalistic integrity of NPR. Can't wait to hear the answer.

Oh wow, I remember the prime time Watergate trials. This must have been the first time the Republicans became afraid of NPR.

SAVE NPR!

good-bye npr HEY HEY great day in america

i feel that npr as it exists now is just another propaganda wing of the machine, much as conservative talk radio is. i trust neither for honest unbiased news and feel they all have abandoned the principles of public service in exchange for either filthy lucre from ad revenue or senseless fingerpointing and partisanship, and usually both. i find i prefer the bbc for my news, as well as the dutch press, as there is far less of that going on and i never feel there is an agenda, just fair reporting of fact and investigation into issues that serve humankind

Some of us have been defending "liberal" since the rightwingers started demonizing the word.

It was the wimp-ass "liberals" who were bullyed by the right into finding a new word, "progressive," to call themselves.

never heard of it.

well, the guy on the video was stating his opinion and it worked against him because of the position he holds but to me, it doesnt matter just because I agree with his opinion...

So, what exactly would you define as NOT being “Big Media”? What is “Small” media?
The viewer ship of even the smallest Television stations is in the tens or hundreds of thousands. The readership of newspapers is measured in the millions of households and listeners of radio station is measured by the state

They all meet the definition of “big media” but all the difference is in where their money comes from

-> Such as the Saudi Royal Family Owned Faux “News” Channel Network and the Australian-multi-Billionaire- owned Wall Street Journal and New York Post, are owned by an Australian and a Prince of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family, the same people who own 20th Century Fox and the FX channel

-> Or to the General Electric-owned MSNBC?
MSNBC is owned be General Electric, the same people who own “Bravo” and “Syfy” and run the “Universal” theme parks

-> The Disney/Google-owned ABC?
Disney, the same people who run “Disney-land/world’s California adventure” and who made “Pirates of the Caribbean”, owns ABC

-> Or the Viacom-owned CBS?
CBS is owned by Viacom, the same people who own Paramount Pictures (who made all of the different “Star Trek’s)

->CNN spend WAY too much time surfing social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter

->The Washington Post very rarely reports ANYTHING outside of the District of Columbia

->USA Today uses up Way too much room with opinion polls

-> The AOL-Warner-Brothers- owned TIME magazine?
AOL/Warner owns TIME Magazine, the same people who made the WB

Or perhaps the New-world-order-foreign-terror-junta-plot-conspiracy-based Weekly Standard, National Review, and American Spectator?
And let us not forget, please the inherited-oil/chemical-fortune-Multi-trillionaire-oil-heirs- owned “Americans-For-Prosperity”?
or the Former-Republican-House-Congressional-Minority-Leader-owned and Run “Freedom Works”?

Because it has been my experience that the media outlets that not only merely Nationally Broadcast throughout the country, but are ALSO Nationally funded, by people all across the nation tend to have the LEAST bias News Reporting in modern media

By Far and away the most unbiased and nonpartisan journalistic reporting i’ve ever seen has come from three sources: NPR, PBS, and the BBC
The BBC is the world’s largest News Organization, and also the most widely respected globally, and is wholly publicly owned and operated by the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, with the support of the Government of England
PBS and NPR are jointly funded by the Government of the Government of the United States, whose budget comes from the taxpayers of this nation, and the donations by the stations’ viewers and listeners

Faux “News” Channel Network
http://judgian12365.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/faux-news-channel-network/

PBS News hour is the most informative of any of the national news out there. If you watch that and then turn to any major network the quality and what actually counts as news is starkly different. We need NPR!

NPR should be the ones known as 'fair & balanced' because they truely report and let you decide. They calmly (sometimes boringly) present facts without rhetoric or agenda. MSNBC & FOX can point fingers to the left and to the right, but NPR always points to the facts. That's why the right wing faked all that outrage over an NPR head talking smack about the Tea Party on a hidden camera. As if that guy has less freedom of speech & more accountability for what he says at a dinner table with a handful of friends than Fox news has when broadcasting to millions.

The right doesn't like NPR or PBS because they deal with facts and truth. Facts and truth have a liberal bias.

I was looking up an NPR host after reading an interview in a local magazine. On the local NPR website was a hilarious clip defending NPR. The people in it admitted almost all of NPR is liberal but that in no way causes any bias in reporting and talk shows.

Edited for not finishing sentence.

NPR is a poor shadow of the sorts of intelligent public sponsored broadcasting in other countries, like the BBC in the UK and ABC in Australia, but it's all America has and MUST be preserved!
It's a true, fully balanced look at the events and issues in the world- neither right nor left, just compassionate, intelligent, intellectual, highly informed and non-partisan.
NONE of the other broadcasters can claim anything like the quality of NPR,

Look its our responsibility to lead the fight for education and media reform cutting funding to long fought for intelligent artistic expression and educational programming that is all available only on NPR and PBS and I think the attack by lawmakers and Re-pugnants (sorry its just what i feel ) is obviously greed driven and politically driven as well its disgusting were are the celebs the dems the freedom fighters they've already cut 2 channels of arts and news its becoming a national emergency of Media censorship and entertainment news take over I WILL NOT HAVE it neither should you citizen comrades workers lovers peace makers and intelligent freedom lovers and artists everywhere we must UNITE NOW international Work Stoppage DAY May 5th all citizens protest we want our DEMOCRACY NOW!!!!!!! Or YOUR OUT GAME OVER

NPR and PBS are not perfect but they are the last semblance of actual journalism left in this country. All other venues are privately owned and thus are subject to the political whims of their corporate masters who have a vested interest in what the average Joe American citizen thinks, how he sees the world around him, and its not with his best interest in mind. If you think Rupert Murdoch or the Koch brothers or another one of these billionaire bastards wouldn't kick your sick grandma in the face (or pay someone else to do it) for a few extra dollars then you are kidding yourself, they don't give a shit about you only what THEY can get out of you. To have someone who thinks in such a predatory way about the rest of us controlling our feed of information about the rest of the world is simply terrifying. If you think Bill O'reilly or Rush Limbaug or Glenn Beck are journalists then you have forgotten what a journalist is, these are talking heads saying exactly what the guy who signs their checks tell them to, with no integrity or loyalty to the truth. It will be a sad thing that I will have to watch another country's news to know what is going on in my own country not to mention the rest of the world.

It is one of the better news sources in the USA. Not like the sewer news over at Fox.

NPR and PBS is about the only true source of news that we can get in the UNITED STATES, and this is why the republicans have all ways been against them. They can't handle the truth. So I will up my contributions.

There is no doubt K.M., that 1. Maintaining publicly paid for, public media, is the only way to stay at least, close, to truthful reporting, and 2. that an entitlement budget, with guaranteed funding like social security, and self adjusting for inflation, is the only way to prevent rogue government from trying to crush truthful reporting.

This, however, we can only accomplish just after we bring corporate America under public control, and restore the accountability of government to the people.