Mitt says he'll fire Big Bird!

[piece-itpete]

John, anybody

Pete

[piece-itpete]

A tea party customer sent me some bumper stickers, attached

Pete

PS sorry for the craptacularness, I can't manipulate PDFs.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

A tea party customer sent me some bumper stickers, attached

Pete

PS sorry for the craptacularness, I can't manipulate PDFs.

BFD-he's right and we're coming for your guns next. You can keep Bachman.

[piece-itpete]

You ain't takin my guns! BAM!

Pete

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Has Murdoch and his pet Sheik actually turned a profit? I've heard they spent money like water brainwashing you teabaggers....

Yes, they make money now but the hemorrhaged money for something like 10 years before they hit the black. I don't know whether they've made enough yet to cover their initial losses though.

You have to remember that FOX News was never intended as a business in the traditional sense. It was always to be a propaganda outlet for the Right. Why else put a political hack like Roger Ailes in charge?

John

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Which ones lean right?

Pete

""Mr Ralph Nader's take from 2011, concluding that PBS was leaning to the Right then.

""PBS’s Charlie Rose has had war-loving William Kristol on thirty one times, Henry Kissinger fifty five times, Richard Perle ten times, the global corporatist cheerleader, Tom Friedman seventy times. Compare that guest list with Rose’s interviews of widely published left of center guests—Noam Chomsky two times, William Grieder two times, Jim Hightower two times, Charlie Peters two times, Lewis Lapham three times, Bob Herbert six times, Paul Krugman twenty one times, Victor Navasky one time, Mark Green five times and Sy Hersh, once a frequent guest, has not been on since January 2005.

Dr. Sidney Wolfe, the widely-quoted super-accurate drug industry critic, who is often featured on the commercial TV network shows, has never been on Rose’s show. Nor has the long-time head of Citizens for Tax Justice and widely respected progressive tax analyst, Robert McIntyre.

Far more corporate executives, not known for their leftist inclinations, appear on Rose’s show than do leaders of environmental, consumer, labor and poverty organizations.""

""Here is a solution that will avoid any need for Congressional contributions to CPB. The people own the public airwaves. They are the landlords. The commercial radio and TV stations are the tenants that pay nothing for their 24 hour use of this public property. You pay more for your auto license than the largest television station in New York pays the Federal Communications Commission for its broadcasting license—which is nothing. It has been that way since the 1927 and 1934 communication laws.

Why not charge these profitable businesses rent for use of the public airwaves and direct some of the ample proceeds to nonprofit public radio and public TV as well as an assortment of audience controlled TV and radio channels that could broadcast what is going on in our country locally, regionally, nationally and internationally?"" ........ link to article, http://palestinechronicle.com/view_a...s.php?id=16721


Just about every day when listening to NPR or PBS I hear plenty of points of view I do not agree with but still listen and try to understand them. With radio shows like Diane Rehms, Terry Gross, Talk of the Nation along with the tried and true Morning Addition and All Things Considered all putting opposing sides on.

I think back to right after 911 my Sisters both Right leaning TParty FOX news types. Listen exclusively to NPR in the morning because of the excellent coverage.








Barney

[JBS...]

This is some funny chit...


http://thehill.com/video/260893-new-...it-wall-street

[piece-itpete]

Barney, are you saying Rose is a rightie?

Pete

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Barney, are you saying Rose is a rightie?

Pete

I'll let Barney answer that question but I'll just toss in here that the underwriters of The Charlie Rose Show can and do exert an influence on what guests appear on the show.

John

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Barney, are you saying Rose is a rightie?

Pete

I would have no idea to as his leanings as it should be. He is of the old school were in that it is all about the person being interviewed. No coloring or embellishing just let the true person being interviewed come out. Now I do not flatter myself in thinking PBS is totally unbiased or influenced by funding. But I think they still strive to be a balanced neutral approach to reporting the facts.

What I was attempting to show was the majority of PBS shows are trying to show a balance of views and ideas. No matter how painful for the viewers.




Barney