Elinda wrote:
gbaji wrote:
The reality is that the views expressed by Schiller (the other one) are exactly in line with the typical views of the people who control the programming at NPR.
Ms Schiller's views and the views of those 'others' that control programming are irrelevant as they have not made them public.
Of course they're relevant. They "control programming". They get to control what topics get discussed, and who discusses them, and who's even on the payroll to discuss topics, and a hundred other aspects of programming that can vastly impact how it's perceived by the public.
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As a frequent NPR listener I was pretty shocked, as shocked as I can be over political gossip, that Schiller said what he said.
Here's the thing. I'm not even a little shocked. I would not be shocked to find that most of the executives working for NPR, as well as most of the employees and affiliates hold similar views, and if they thought they were talking to someone within that same mindset-circle, would express them just as he did. Why is that? Because as a conservative, I've been seeing this trend in media for decades now. It's not surprising to me because I see the subtle hints of that mindset every single day. I see its effects in the form of ideas expressed by the public, and on this forum.
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Btw, most of npr's programming is not political in nature.
Correct. But every single bit of it that is slants pretty far liberal. The problem is that most media has gradually slanted left such that most people don't even realize it. I suspect that if more people took their own advice and exposed themselves to ideas other than those they hear on their existing media sources, they might just realize how biased what they've been listening to all these years really is. Maybe.
And then they wouldn't be shocked when they hear an NPR exec say the kinds of things Schiller said.
Edited, Mar 9th 2011 4:28pm by gbaji