🚀 go-pugleaf

Media pundit outputs moderate modulation:

On the topic of devmedia, hello you all.  In this era of extreme
stupification of the US public through muddled commercial media and the push
to topple publicly funded non-commercial media, it is nice to have a campfire
to warm one's heart and devmedia is the spot.  I have been lurking here for 3
months reading messages about Chiapas and other places.

(Note that I am ignoring the tirade by the ditto head and moving on to more
stimulating topics.  Not pissing on anyone, golden showers be damned)

I have been wondering about the problems of pubic broadcasting of late.  In
many ways, the CPB and its offspring, NPR and PBS are creations of the
Democratic Party.  And so too, in many way, the people who work there from
Susan Stamberg to Ray Suarez seem to reflect a certain moderate liberal
sensibility that makes them left wing in a country so bent to the right at
this point.  And that must be the reason that Gingrich (his pledge rap for
listener contributions notwithstanding) and his ilk are so determined to
weaken pubic broadcasting.  Yet, when you ask these guys, even rather dull
characters such as Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland claim to listen to NPR all the
time.  It is as if they know that they are supposed to listen to this stuff
so that they can claim a certain level of erudition.  So they listen to it
(maybe), but they are vehemently hoping that others won't so that eventually
all that will be left on the dial in many parts of the country will be
Limbaugh or Stern.  These Republicans must eat contradiction flakes for
breakfast.