By now you’ve no doubt heard that House Republicans voted to strip federal funding from National Public Radio. The bill, which was rushed through before the scheduled House recess, passed 228 to 192, with only seven Republicans voting against it. If passed by the Senate, the bill would keep an estimated $90 million from NPR. […]
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National Public Radio under attack and in jeopardy
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Anthony Weiner, corporate media, FOX News, fundamentalist religion, guns, Ira Glass, James O'Keefe, John Boehner, Joyce Slocum, library privatization, Libya, media consolidation, mochery, Muammar Gaddafi, Muslim Brotherhood, National Public Radio, NPR, racism, reality deficient, Ron Schiller, sarcasm, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, tomahawk missiles, Vivian Schiller, xenophobia 24 Comments
Astroturf wars, and the battle to defund NPR
The following video, taken last year during a training session for Tea Party activists in Nashville, is of a young man from a group called the American Majority. His name is Austin James, and, on the video, he can be seen instructing folks how they should go about waging guerilla warfare online by, among other […]
Posted in Media, Politics Also tagged Amazon, American Liberty Tour, American Majority, astroturf, Austin James, book reviews, Koch brothers, manipulation of the stupid, movie reviews, National Public Radio, Shirley Sherrod, stop watching NPR, tea party, teabots, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism 10 Comments
Voting out the sane Republicans
It’s good to be reminded on occasion that there are sane, responsible Republicans… We were in the car last night, on our way to have dinner with friends in Detroit, when we caught an NPR report on how the upcoming elections are likely to affect climate change legislation, and I was really struck by how […]
Posted in Environment, Politics Also tagged Bob Inglis, BP, cap-and-trade, Climate Change, Global Warming, global warming denial, Jim Demint, Koch brothers, NPR, republican primary, sane Republicans, Sarah Palin, South Carolina, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the collapse of the Republican party, the future of journalism, those anti-science Republicans, Trey Gowdy 7 Comments