{"id":1310,"date":"2008-03-09T08:42:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2008-03-09T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T13:23:37","slug":"npr-listeners-speech-is-for-me-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"NPR listeners: Speech is for me, not for thee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times’<\/a> Jennifer Harper reports this morning that NPR’s foray into conservative talk radio was met with dismayed NPR listeners, apparently unaccustomed to conservatives on that taxpayer-funded broadcaster;<\/p>\n

\u00a0National Public Radio listeners who tuned in to “Morning Edition” during the last four days of February found some atypical programming around 6:30 a.m. during the broadcasts.<\/p>\n

“Conversations with Conservatives” was heard during morning-drive time with host Steve Inskeep and a conservative of the day with much on his mind.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

According to NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard, more than 60 angry e-mails and phone calls arrived at the network, calling the programming “shameful” and a “lovefest with radical, right-wing nuts.” There were only a few, she said, that praised the series as “refreshing” and “articulate,” among other things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine that – having an opinion that runs counter to that of the regular programming on NPR is “shameful”. Actually, it should give NPR execs some pause – if running a few 7 minute spots of conservatives shock your listeners, maybe what conservatives have been saying for years is true – NPR is nothing but Leftist propaganda disguised as mainstream programming.<\/p>\n

And if you have to experiment with conservative shows to get a “sampling” of conservative opinion, maybe you’ve been fooling yourselves all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times’ Jennifer Harper reports this morning that NPR’s foray into conservative talk radio was … NPR listeners: Speech is for me, not for thee<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}