[Rhodes22-list] Public Radio and TV

[brad haslett]

Saroj,

The original purpose of PBS was to "serve an
underserved market".  In this day and age with TV,
cable, talk radio, satellite radio, websites and
web-blogs, and oh yea, newspapers, do we have any
"underserved markets"?  As you pointed out, every
institution has its own bias and by your admission,
PBS has one as well.  Not to be a hypocrite, PBS is
currently on in the background as my daughter is
watching a children's show.  I like PBS, listen to
NPR, and contribute money. We've purchased enough
Seseme Street tapes to fund that program for a while.
My beef with the whole concept is using taxpayer
money.  Let PBS duke it out in the marketplace.  Using
public funding to provide services that are already
well served by the marketplace is socialistic.

Brad


--- Saroj Gilbert <saroj at pathfind.net> wrote:

> Rik, of course they are pushing their own agenda...
> I wasn't clear about my 
> referential pronoun.. apologies... see my follow on
> email...
> 
> I just have never heard or picked up any indication
> that they were promoting 
> communism and socialism; promoting control of
> individuals, promoting the 
> control of the point of view of the masses, or
> disdaining individual 
> freedom.
> 
> Have you?
> 
> Saroj
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico at earthlink.net>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Public Radio and TV
> 
> 
> > Saroj,
> >
> > Anybody that thinks public radio isn't pushing
> their own agenda hasn't 
> > been listening to it much. I listen to NPR quite a
> lot because it's true, 
> > you can get some better news coverage than on most
> other radio stations. 
> > BUT, there are times when I have to turn it off
> because there's a few 
> > whiny bedwetters that are just too much.
> >
> > I think, if NPR is such a great thing, the folks
> that use it should 
> > contribute to keep it going. They all don't want
> to hear all that nasty 
> > corperate advertising but apparently aren't bright
> enough to figure out 
> > how all those other radio stations (and the people
> who work there) make 
> > their living. I contribute to NPR even though I
> don't necessarilly agree 
> > with much of their left leaning politics. If the
> people that want NPR 
> > don't want it bad enough to throw a few bucks
> their way in exchange for no 
> > advertising, I guess it can't be all that
> important to them and it should 
> > fall by the wayside.
> >
> > Rik
> >
> > ed kroposki wrote:
> >
> >>Saroj:
> >> Unfortunately your public radio and TV often
> promotes a control the
> >>masses point of view.  Communism and socialism are
> political positions 
> >>used
> >>to control individuals.  Big business is corporate
> control of the
> >>individual.  Public radio promotes the same thesis
> of controlling the
> >>individual.  Individual freedom whether political,
> educational, business 
> >>is
> >>distained by your public media. Public Radio or TV
> promotes only the view
> >>which represent their biased point of view.
> >> Has radio reader ever read Natan Saransky's book
> on Democracy?  Have
> >>they promoted writers who espouse individual
> freedoms?  They advocate just 
> >>another form of bigness...
> >>
> >>Ed Kroposki
> >>Greenville, SC, USA
> >>Addendum:  "As I would not be a slave, so I would
> not be a master.  This
> >>expresses my idea of democracy.  Whatever differ
> from this, to the extent 
> >>of
> >>difference, is no democracy."  A. Lincoln
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> >>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> Behalf Of Saroj Gilbert
> >>Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:01 AM
> >>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> >>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Commitment to war
> >>
> >>So we can have a source of news that isn't
> massaged to meet the demands of 
> >>the corporate advertisers....
> >>So we aren't bombarded by commercials...
> >>So we can listen to the BBC...
> >>So we can experience innovation that isn't
> dependent on commercially 
> >>dictated norms...
> >>
> >>It is mostly subscriber-supported and grant
> supported anyhow... but you'll 
> >>notice more and more that it receives a lot of
> commercial support too so 
> >>it may not be able to maintain its independence.
> >>
> >>Saroj
> >>
> >>----- Original Message ----- 
> >>From: "Philip Esteban" <3drecon at comcast.net>
> >>To: "'stan'" <stan at rhodes22.com>; "'The Rhodes 22
> mail list'" 
> >><rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >>Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:09 PM
> >>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Commitment to war
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Why, with hundreds of channels available are we
> funding public radio and
> >>>television, but we are told we need our taxes
> raised to meet other
> >>>requirements?  The government needs to get out of
> the radio and tv 
> >>>business.
> >>>
> >>>Philip
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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