Hijacking NPR

Well, I guess it will be KPFA (Pacifica Radio) all the way if the Bush administration manages to infiltrate NPR. There is no way I am going to listen to a single, loud mouthed, blowhard spouting right wing propoganda on National Public Radio.

"Executives at National Public Radio in the United States are increasingly at odds with the Bush appointees who lead the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

In one of several points of conflict in recent months, the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which allocates federal funds for public radio and television, is considering a plan to monitor Middle East coverage on NPR news programs for evidence of bias, a corporation spokesman said on Friday.

The corporation's board has told its staff that it should consider redirecting money away from national news broadcasts and toward local music programs produced by NPR stations.

Top officials at NPR and member stations are upset as well about the corporation's decision to appoint two ombudsmen to judge the content of programs for balance. And managers of public radio stations criticized the corporation in a resolution offered at their annual meeting two weeks ago urging it not to interfere in NPR editorial decisions.

The corporation's chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, has also blocked NPR from broadcasting its programs on a station in Berlin owned by the U.S. government."