[Rhodes22-list] Public Radio and TV

[Saroj Gilbert]

I agree with you too... hehehe... I think we are on the downslope of the 
"Fall of the great USA" a la the "Fall of the Roman Empire"

Saroj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Public Radio and TV


> Agree with you again.  I am a super liberal and they want us to pay.  If 
> evangelistic congress folk want other countries to be just like the US so 
> badly, let them cough up their own dough for their forced feeding and stop 
> stealing the surplus we had and taxes that could be better spent.  For 
> years I have been preaching:  Make this country a paradise and the rest of 
> the world will follow.  Mess up what we had going here and you see what 
> the rest of the world is starting to think about us.
>
> stan/gbi
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Philip Esteban" <3drecon at comcast.net>
> To: <sanderico at earthlink.net>; "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" 
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:10 PM
> Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Public Radio and TV
>
>
>> Typical of most liberals they want the rest of us to pay.  I agree with 
>> you,
>> if they want it so bad, cough up the dough, their own dough and stop
>> stealing tax dollars that are better spent.
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org]On Behalf Of Rik Sandberg
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:18 AM
>> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>> 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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