<html><body> <br /><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:500px;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "doug mckenty" <dougmck@gmail.com></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:28:19 -0800<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [Kzyxtalk] NPR's All Things Considered<br /><br /><br />
David,<div><br /></div><div>I don't really think its my place to say, and advocate for the implementation of the programming advisory committee to make specific choices by consensus.</div><div><br /></div><div>Personally, if you want to know, I think the station could have one hour of Morning Edition and one of ATC as well as Terry Gross at noon and that's plenty. I definitely think there is way too much NPR on the weekends but have absolutely no preference as to which to keep or cut. Perhaps a survy of those who like NPR would help to discern their favorites?</div>
<div><br /></div><div>I would love to see more locally produced public affairs on the weekend and think an hour long Sunday local news debate on a certain subject would be fun. Just some ideas for a future PAC to think about.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>Doug<br /><br />On Wednesday, February 19, 2014, David Gurney <<a href="mailto:jugglestone@gmail.com">jugglestone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px .8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12px Helvetica;">Why does NPR suck?</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12px Helvetica;">For a play by play account of the biased, mainstream, boring, limp-wristed and excessively sanguine reporting on NPR, check out the blog "Why NPR Sucks!</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12px Helvetica;"><a href="http://whynprsucks.blogspot.com/">http://whynprsucksblogspot.com/</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12px Helvetica;">KMUD out of Southern Humboldt is a local station that's very entertaining, has a news department, and provides a daily forum (and other call-in shows) and it truly represent its community, </p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12px Helvetica;">They manage to do without NPR entirely. Go figure.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:12px Helvetica;">…</p></div></div><div><br /><br /><div>On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Patricia Kovner <span dir="ltr"><<a>pkovner@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px .8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">Is the reason KZYX no longer has a full news hour, because NPR programming has priority and there is not enough $$ for both? I'd like to know how KMUD budgets it's much smaller income to expand its already full news hour, with several reporters, and no NPR.<br />
--------------------------------------------<br /><div>On Wed, 2/19/14, doug mckenty <<a>dougmck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br /><br />
Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] NPR's All Things Considered<br /></div> To: "<a>kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a>" <<a>kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a>><br />
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 11:22 AM<br /><div><div><br />
Tim,<br />
I thought the total programming fee<br />
of 32k included the 22k for individual programs plus<br />
membership fees like 8k for the NPR membership. So the<br />
total payout for programming was the 32k number. Perhaps<br />
you are right and they should be added for a total of<br />
55k.<br /><br />
I stopped believing NPR<br />
programming after observing their coverage of the run up to<br />
the war in Iraq. It has become my feeling that they are<br />
just another corporate news source heavily influenced by the<br />
corporate/government complex. I know many believe it to be<br />
an alternative, but I feel they are one and the same.<br />
Their foreign policy is very one sided, from the point of<br />
view of the American military establishment, with little to<br />
no time for alternative perspectives. The vast majority of<br />
their "experts" come from establishment think<br />
tanks such as Rand, Brookings, and the CFR, all of wich are<br />
funded by corporate or foundation money. NPR is heavily<br />
influenced by the left/right paradigm which it then reduces<br />
to the two party system they present as functional, with<br />
little corruption influencing the game. Alternative,<br />
independant, and third party factions are almost totally<br />
ignored. <br /><br />
NPR does very little<br />
investigative journalism of its own, and after years of<br />
paying close attention to alternative news sources, I have<br />
found that if an anti-government or anti-corporate meme<br />
starts to gain traction, NPR is always there to present a<br />
very softball view of what are sometimes serious<br />
civil/individual rights abuses. <br /><br />
I am also skeptical of its<br />
attitude that it is completely objective. By giving<br />
equal credence to two points of view I often find that<br />
NPR's coverage manages to give a measure of authenticity<br />
to ideas that, on their own, would be completely<br />
ludicrous.<br /><br />
The fluff pieces often<br />
stuck between NPR's coverage of real news reminds me of<br />
the soma pills taken in A Brave New World. After an hour<br />
of NPR we are all meant to feel pacified. There is nothing<br />
to worry about. The USA is the greatest country in the<br />
world. Its military spreads peace and democracy and its<br />
people enjoy freedom and abundance. There is nothing to<br />
see here, move along.<br /><br />
I just don't trust<br />
it.<br />
Having said that,<br />
I have never advocated ditching it at KZYX. I know a lot<br />
of people do trust it, and a lot of them are paying members.<br />
I would just like to see less of it and more Independant<br />
and locally produced journalism and I would like to be able<br />
to have this conversation on the air instead of on this list<br />
serve. I think discussion critical or complimentary of all<br />
news sources should be part of the function of community<br />
radio.<br /><br />
Doug M.<br /><br /><br />
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014, <<a>nsi@mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br /><br />
Thank you, Rick. --beth<br /><br /><br />
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From: "Mitch<br />
Clogg" <<a>mitchc@mcn.org</a>><br /><br />
To:<<a>kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a>><br />
Cc:<br /><br />
Sent:Tue, 18 Feb 2014<br />
20:38:24 -0800<br />
Subject:Re: [Kzyxtalk]<br />
NPR's All Things Considered<br /><br /><br />
Why are people so<br />
reluctant to cop to<br />
liking stuff on public radio? NPR, Public Radio<br />
International,<br />
Canada radio and a slew of others put superb stuff in<br />
the air. My<br />
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