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Vivian Schiller. (Stephen Voss/The Washington Post)
AND NOW, FOR THE BACKGROUND ON NPR:
via DAKOTA VOICE
Public Broadcasting in America–PBS and NPR–are government creations that go back to the 1960s and a time when there were few TV channels and relatively few radio stations available. The government created a TV and radio network using taxpayer funds, and this has continued even though there are now hundreds of TV channels, hundreds of radio stations on AM and FM as well as satellite radio.
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigns from radio network
By Melissa Bell
Vivian Schiller. (Stephen Voss/The Washington Post)
Vivian Schiller, CEO and president of NPR, resigned Wednesday. Schiller came under heavy criticism last year for the dismissal of Juan Williams, a former employee who was fired after making comments about Muslims on a Fox News show.
Tuesday an undercover video of NPR executive Ron Schiller (no relation to Vivian Schiller) brought more negative press to the network. In the video Ron Schiller can be seen saying "tea party people" aren't "just Islamophobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people." - MORE
AND NOW, FOR THE BACKGROUND ON NPR:
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NPR Executives Caught On Video Slamming Conservatives, Praising Liberals
Public Broadcasting in America–PBS and NPR–are government creations that go back to the 1960s and a time when there were few TV channels and relatively few radio stations available. The government created a TV and radio network using taxpayer funds, and this has continued even though there are now hundreds of TV channels, hundreds of radio stations on AM and FM as well as satellite radio.Conservatives like myself have long called for the taxpayer de-funding of public broadcasting. It isn’t a legitimate expenditure of taxpayer funds, and obviously it isn’t needed. Public broadcasting can survive like every other broadcasting company does…or it can fail on its own merits.
Recently, independent filmmaker James O’Keefe and some friends did some undercover journalism on NPR. They met at Café Milano in Georgetown with NPR senior exec Ron Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving. The undercover filmmakers portrayed themselves as Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust and said they were thinking of giving a large donation to NPR.
They caught these objective, taxpayer-funded NPR folks making some rather partisan statements disparaging of conservatives, Republicans and Tea Party patriots.
From the Daily Caller:
“The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move,” declared Schiller,
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On the tapes, Schiller wastes little time before attacking conservatives. The Republican Party, Schiller says, has been “hijacked by this group.” The man posing as Malik finishes the sentence by adding, “the radical, racist, Islamaphobic, Tea Party people.” Schiller agrees and intensifies the criticism, saying that the Tea Party people aren’t “just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it’s scary. They’re seriously racist, racist people.”Schiller goes on to describe liberals as more intelligent and informed than conservatives. “In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives,” he said.
These NPR bigshots also seemed very pro-Palestinian with a cold shoulder for the only stable democracy in the Middle East: Israel.
Now these objective, taxpayer-funded people are entitled to their opinion, but they aren’t entitled to propagandize at taxpayer expense. And we interestingly see such Leftist bias finding its way onto the airwaves all the time at Public Broadcasting.
With our nation $14 trillion in debt and with a $1.5 trillion budget deficit, the time is long past to cut off Public Broadcasting from the taxpayer trough. In fact, Schiller seems to agree.
Later in the lunch, Schiller explains that NPR would be better positioned free of federal funding. “Well frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long-run without federal funding,” he says. “The challenge right now is that if we lost it all together we would have a lot of stations go dark.”When one of O’Keefe’s associates asked, “How confident are you, with all the donors that are available, if they should pull the funding right now that you would survive?,” Schiller answered this way: “Yes, NPR would definitely survive and most of the stations would survive.”
Congress, this is your green light. Let’s do what should have been done a long time ago.
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