• House votes to permanently ban NPR from receiving federal money
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If NPR is so great why don't you all donate some money to it? It should be funded by the public at the PUBLICS discretion. People will always fund these programs for the tax right off. It should not be the governments job to maintain and fund things like this.
[QUOTE=Bluesummers;28672652]If NPR is so great why don't you all donate some money to it? It should be funded by the public at the PUBLICS discretion. People will always fund these programs for the tax right off. It should not be the governments job to maintain and fund things like this.[/QUOTE] The idea of public radio is that it's funded by the public sector, aka the government. [editline]18th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=s0beit;28672312]I don't see how that would ruin it's content. There's also the option of web-radio broadcasts so you wouldn't even really need those extra radio stations. They could streamline non-profit radio so easily.[/QUOTE] You know how I know you don't have a car?
[QUOTE=zombieslaya;28657164]If NPR is so great how come it needs federal funding?[/QUOTE] Because they don't distort the news in order to gain ratings. Pretty simple, really. [editline]18th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=PrismatexV8;28672665] You know how I know you don't have a car?[/QUOTE] Owned
[QUOTE=Bluesummers;28672652]If NPR is so great why don't you all donate some money to it? It should be funded by the public at the PUBLICS discretion. People will always fund these programs for the tax right off. It should not be the governments job to maintain and fund things like this.[/QUOTE] Yeah we should donate for tax right offs. That makes sense. Some of us donate because we enjoy the programs. With your logic, the government shouldn't fund Nascar because someone else enjoys it other than me.
[QUOTE=s0beit;28672312]I don't see how that would ruin it's content.[/QUOTE] If you spent some time listening to commercial radio, you would. [QUOTE=s0beit;28672312]Yes but that's just their opinion.[/QUOTE] Yes, they have opinions and you have an opinion. That's why this thread is here, to debate the [i]merits[/i] of NPR. That's fine. The only position I ever took is that saying "it can't run on donations and is therefore worthless, gotcha!" doesn't make sense, and that a debate over a public radio station should be focused on its merits, not its profitability. [QUOTE=s0beit;28672312]Want to respond to my question of what limits you would put on public funding? I'm interested to hear it.[/QUOTE] That question would need a really complicated answer that I don't have the legal background to give. But I do think it's good to have news media that isn't beholden to commercial interests.
News media is classified as "speech" and journalistic elements are sort of artistic, Media like radio creative radio shows and what not is a form of art/speech. And imagine in that case if all artistic pursuits are only done by profitability? That's not a good thing IMO.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;28674214]And imagine in that case if all artistic pursuits are only done by profitability? [/QUOTE] lol not even ayn rand would agree with that
[QUOTE=TH89;28673698]Yes, they have opinions and you have an opinion. That's why this thread is here, to debate the [i]merits[/i] of NPR. That's fine. The only position I ever took is that saying "it can't run on donations and is therefore worthless, gotcha!" doesn't make sense, and that a debate over a public radio station should be focused on its merits, not its profitability.[/quote] The issue however is i don't let my opinion on the [i]merits[/i] of NPR cloud my judgement when it comes to these matters. I don't like it or hate it, i don't like or hate republican public radio either (if such a thing exists, i wouldn't know) but i want them shut down too. I already said this particular bill is stupid because it is just picking on NPR. I don't discriminate because it's more practical to argue the merits of public radio as a whole rather than one station (or a set of stations). This is what happens when you pay for things with taxpayer dollars, eventually people will complain that their own views aren't being expressed and then you have to doll out more dollars for them or just deny them the same level of speech you're granting the public radio stations. It's a lose/lose. [QUOTE=TH89;28673698] That question would need a really complicated answer that I don't have the legal background to give. But I do think it's good to have news media that isn't beholden to commercial interests.[/QUOTE] Might want to consider setting some limits then, some people have different limits but one boundary often compliments another. It's hard to support government funding of some things and not open the door to supporting things you also dislike greatly with government money. How does creationism public radio sound? lol [QUOTE=TH89;28673698]If you spent some time listening to commercial radio, you would.[/quote] I have, the only things I ever listened to as a kid were Q101 in Chicago and Loveline, on that station. Loveline was commercial and was also the most brutally honest, raunchy radio program i think ever to happen in the history of ever (with the exception of shock jocks and such, i didn't listen to them). They found sponsors and they just talked about sex and drugs for a few hours. Was good times.
Well how about the fact that this doesn't even save money? And why not shut down PBS and all their shows too, their all totally useless and biased [/sarcasm]
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;28677998]Well how about the fact that this doesn't even save money? And why not shut down PBS and all their shows too, their all totally useless and biased [/sarcasm][/QUOTE] As i said earlier in the thread i said the bill was stupid and the exact words i did use were [quote]there really isn't any reason to pick on NPR in particular[/quote] I also never accused them of being biased, your sarcastic comment is pretty bad. Read the thread please.
[QUOTE=Bluesummers;28672652]If NPR is so great why don't you all donate some money to it? It should be funded by the public at the PUBLICS discretion. People will always fund these programs for the tax right off. It should not be the governments job to maintain and fund things like this.[/QUOTE] I do donate, you wiener.
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