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Telemann1's avatar

Uri Berliner's argument that NPR should refuse federal funds "so that it could follow its progressive leanings" angered me. I was impressed by Berliner's earlier account - except for his apparent partisanship when it came to Israel. Unless his piece is just ironic -I hope not, the issue is too serious - the point is that NPR is part of Public Radio and TV - and it should live up that responsibility. That means that its biased coverage was inappropriate and counterproductive to its own values. It lost conservative and moderate viewers and provoked conservatives that a publicly supported service, valuable as it was, was flagrantly partisan in its coverage. Trump's margin and that giving Republican control of Congress was not that large. NPR and PBS News under Judy Woodruff may have been the difference in electing Trump

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Steve Goetz's avatar

two American academic groups—the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)—filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of fostering “a climate of repression” on campuses.

While I can understand this point of view, i certainly do not believe their position is altruistic because, unless I missed it, these same academic groups did not file similar lawsuits against this and other Universities nor groups involved in the encampments last year which certainly repressed free speech on this and other campuses across the country.

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Rebecca Kotter's avatar

I wish we would leave Greenland alone. Maybe send them a nice fruit basket and start over.

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Lisa Kinakin's avatar

Haha. Awesome

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Andras Boros-Kazai's avatar

I discovered NPR in the early 1970s as a welcome alternative to the ugly wasteland I found US radio to be.

NPR is still on almost 24-7.

Why? Because I like music and NPR, and NPR alone, gives me what I want in the way of music: From jazz to opera, from the Great Classics to little-known gems.

As any other human undertaking, NPR has its unattractive, actually quite ugly, side which is displayed when the music stops and the talkers come on.

And that's when I turn off NPR. It is also the reason I never gave a single penny to NPR.

Which is what all NPR-haters should do. It's an easy act to stifle NPR, without being hateful.

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Christine's avatar

Are you a recently engaged MAGA woman who loves thrifting but isn’t frugal—like, even a little? If so, you’re in great luck.

Why would only MAGA women want this dress?

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Dennis Bittner's avatar

I think it's a reasonable assumption. It belonged to Melania Trump. Would a Democrat buy something Melania wore? Maybe to burn it?

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Margaret's avatar

Can you please stop prefacing your first item with "But first"?

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Mr ShufflesOG's avatar

NPR? Hard pass.

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B B's avatar

Where is Chung getting the money for her legal fees to fight the Trump administration? I’d love to know more about her and how she earns a living. Surely it will shed light upon her recent participation in university protests.

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Jackson74's avatar

Has it been almost a year since the URI Berliner essay?

Great addition to FP. NPR really lost its way.

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Steve's avatar

Have They? OR were they Always This Way?

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Andras Boros-Kazai's avatar

Which "way" is that? Do tell.

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Steve's avatar

Hard Left

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Don Adams's avatar

NGO is an oxymoron, and a lie. If the government funds you, they own you. And if you receive no federal grants but have tax-exempt status, the government owns you too.

We should end all non-profit designations and give no federal grants to any businesses. Let them live or die in the free market. That's true democracy.

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Brett's avatar

Absolute garbage about Musk wanting to cut Social Security, no proof whatsoever.

This is my last evening of being a paying supporter of TFP .. the reason is for this type of reporting and the fact that it lost its way and is no longer what it set out as.

The Free Press is no longer the provider of unbiased, well researched and balanced journalism as was promised it would be .. a home away from the MSM.

Two whiney emails won't keep me here.

Go well you beautiful 'Mericans. Umtil another time, adios!

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Telemann1's avatar

Provide your evidence to those of us not intimately informed. You do no service to your perspectives to just bail out.

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Doug's avatar

Brett. One reason to stay is because the comments are a community of heterodox, open minded folks like us. Where are you going to find that elsewhere?

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Dennis Bittner's avatar

My second-favorite thing about TFP is seeing people alternately from the right or left leaving comments where they say they've had it, that's it, and they are canceling their subscriptions. That tells me I am in the correct Substack.

My favorite thing is the comments section itself. I totally agree, Doug. Ours is the best.

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Ts Blue's avatar

Please. The only reason there is an NPR is the gov money, take it away and poof, this pile of BS is gone.

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Andras Boros-Kazai's avatar

Definitely not true. Government funds make up a small percentage of NPR's budget.

But, of course, you know this: The data is widely available. Of ourse you have to read . . .

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frank tarascio's avatar

"Now, our own Maya Sulkin reports ...that, contrary to her public statements, Columbia plans to ignore most of the White House’s demands."

- Shocked. SHOCKED!

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Brian M's avatar

The Brits are notorious for being stodgy and slow to change. That was true in the 1900s and it is still true today, though now the stodginess is to give up their fixation on the Woke / DEI agenda as other developed countries are doing. Leave it to the Brits to be the last to cling to protecting the alphabet soup of gender alternatives at the expense of the "normies" whether Caucasians (the easiest to blame for everything that goes wrong) or some other racial group like Indians and Africans

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Brian M's avatar

Bibi protestors "want a deal with Hamas to return the remaining hostages." It amazes me how stupid and naive young Israelis are. One would think that with a required stint in the Israeli army that young people would be clear-eyed about the hostility all around them and would understand that peace or "a deal" with Hamas is impossible. Any deal that Hamas (or Iran) would ever make would just be to buy time to regroup and re-arm. There is zero possibility of co-existing with a people who are sworn to your extinction. The only way to deal with Hamas is to drive them out of Gaza. The same for Hezbollah and whatever militias develop in the Assad-less Syria. Create a 20-30 mile buffer / DMZ and defend it to protect Israelis, which is exactly what Bibi's military has done in Syria.

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Andras Boros-Kazai's avatar

The topic is NPR.

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Yulia Mayer's avatar

You incorrectly assume that demonstrations against Bibi are Israeli version of American progressive demonstrations. These are not stupid young Israelis busy with white guilt, young Israelis are busy fighting for Israel's life in the military. People in these demonstrations are mostly parents of young Israelis. When these demonstrators were themselves young - they too served in the IDF, and today they serve in reserve. They aren't asking for a deal with murderous terrorists because they think that they will live in peace after releasing hundreds more murderous terrorists with Jewish blood on their hands - they are asking for a deal because there are more than 20 live people held by Hamas, tortured, chained, starved, in danger of dying!

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Brian M's avatar

Thank you for your honest answer. If these are parents, as a Jewish parent myself, I understand the grief they might experience. But surely, as IDF reservists, they understand who Hamas is and that Hamas will never give up the remaining hostages because then they have zero bargaining chips. The reason they have leaked out hostages a few at a time is to buy time and also negotiate for the return of Hamas prisoners, who are not civilians but enemy combatants. They also lose that leverage to recover prisoners if they give up the Israeli hostages. So, while I appreciate the grief and pain the best solution is to allow Bibi to demolish Hamas once and for all without any constraints. The very act of protesting Bibi gives Hamas even more reason to hold on to the hostages to drive a wedge through the Israeli political system. Hopefully some hostages can be recovered. But I am doubtful many are still alive. Hamas does not need live hostages to accomplish its terrorist goals. They just need the hope of live hostages.

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Andras Boros-Kazai's avatar

The topic is NPR.

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dean verhoeven's avatar

Thank you for writing "following the death of George Floyd" rather than "following George Floyd's murder."

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