rivendellrose: (today sucks)
rivendellrose ([personal profile] rivendellrose) wrote2011-03-17 01:43 pm
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not the worst thing to be cut recently, but it definitely stings. a lot.

House votes to cut off federal funds for NPR

Quote: [Republicans] also denied that the measure was a vendetta against NPR...

....While everyone who knows anything about the Republicans and NPR laughed their freaking heads off, and then collapsed to their desks in frustration and exhaustion.

Because between Planned Parenthood, Japan, and the local Humane Society and animal shelters, I obviously didn't have enough important things vying for my charity cash at the moment. Arrrrrrgh.

[identity profile] deborah-judge.livejournal.com 2011-03-17 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh FFS. David Brooks speaks on NPR. David Brooks. Whenever I hear his voice I need to go read some Paul Krugman to clean my brain. Don't tell me NPR is anti-Republican.
Edited 2011-03-17 21:03 (UTC)

[identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com 2011-03-17 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I have heard it said that simply covering stories in more depth than a two-minute spot and covering stories that the networks don't does not automatically make you liberal news.
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[identity profile] rivendellrose.livejournal.com 2011-03-17 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I have heard it said that simply covering stories in more depth than a two-minute spot and covering stories that the networks don't does not automatically make you liberal news.

Where did you hear that? Don't you know you're only supposed to watch Fox News?! Anything else is un-American! :P
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[identity profile] rivendellrose.livejournal.com 2011-03-17 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I pick and choose what I hear off the website, so I happily ignore their kowtowing to the conservatives in the name of "balance."

Must admit, though, when I heard the CEO of NPR was being fired for getting caught in a covert recording talking smack about the Tea Party, I was kind of like "...and your point is?" I mean, forgive my psycho-liberal craziness, but I get the impression most people who aren't them pretty much do think they're racist nutballs. Probably because most of them are