While Limbaugh was trash talking Democrats, NPR had Russian Kasporov then a science section on aging, why?

Question

Does this symbolize in some small way the difference between the broadcasting mediums? One, a demagogue with a big mouth and a one way conversation to its listeners, the other offering reporting on interesting topics of the day...

Answer 1

This a loaded question???? grinnnnn.....
I'm an NPR listener too. Can you guess why the Neocons tried to stop funding for public radio and TV? I believe that the conservative right wing pundits fear ideas more than anything else. They aren't afraid of Hillary or Obama, but they are scared to death of the idea that there may be a rational for even a small redistribution of the wealth of the powerful industrialists, both within and outside our boarders. They fear the idea that perhaps being healthy is a right, and should not simply be dependent upon your birthright or weather or not you have a job with insurance.

The conservative American politically active right wing march to a different drummer than most Americans. They are generally satisfied with having someone else put emotional thoughts into their heads, freeing their synapses from the need to connect in any original or dynamic fashion.

NPR on the other hand, thrives on IDEAS. Ideas from all over the board. You may hear a very conservative author discuss his ideas on global warming, and an hour later hear a more liberal academic discussing the loss of glacers in the Andies.

Rush and his type depend on listeners who don't want to think for themselves, or can not form independent thoughts for themselves. NPR on the other hand insists that listeners hear both sides to an issue, weigh the ideas and consequenses, and come up with their own opinion of an issue. That's pretty dangerous to guys like Rush.

Answer 2

Russians, Africans, Gays, Minorities, Socialist poets, dissident Americans. That seems to be the requirement to be on NPR. Every essay and conversation is accompanied by sound effects and music that makes certain you will be depressed once it's over.

Did you ever hear of the 'Driveway Factor'?
It's touted in NPR's fund raising campaigns.

They say that when your commute home from work is over, you still sit in your car listening to NPR when you pull into your driveway.

Why? BECAUSE THEY NEVER GET TO THE POINT!!!!!
I'm still waiting. You already have so much time invested in listening you just can't turn away. It's intellectually dishonest.
What's interesting about that? The most interesting part of what they do is that, when they are done blaming capitalism and corporate America for all the problems of the world, they say: This segment has been made possible by a grant from, Ford Motor Credit, DuPont, Monsanto, Exxon, Georgia Pacific......... What the.....?
Yes, Limbaugh is a fat-head and his style gives me a nervous tick but, at least it comes to an end and there is no ambiguity about what his point was, like it or not. It's easy to move on to more intellectual pursuits. NPR is not one of them.

Answer 3

Like beauty, "interesting" is in the mind of the listener.

I don't listen to Rush because I find his work to be repetitive, one-note, and sour and while I think the intent is "humor," I find his humor mean spirited.

I listen to what some of the other posters characterize as "boring" because it is varied. I can hear about frogs one day and space exploration the next. The news they are condemning as "biased to the left" is not as negative to the administration as they would have you believe.

The "driveway moments" are rarely political in nature, but usually human interest. The "point" is to see life through someone else's eyes, which may be why some of your answerers never understand that they have reached a point.

It not only symbolizes the difference in broadcast media, but in the listeners and the general philosophies they exhibit, I think.

Edit-- *smiling here* And I get a negative for my observations....statistical evidence of the whole "eye of the beholder" point I was making. It's nice to see such immediate verification.

Answer 4

Limbaugh is an entertainer and he is good at what he does. He counts on people getting mad at him and going off the deep end that makes other people curious and they start to listen. Liberal radio doesn't seem to work because they are on the air for one reason to stop Limbaugh and the others . A lot of people feel that the conservative talk shows must be telling the truth because if they are lying they would be stopped.

Answer 5

I could care less if your listening to how to make steve shwetties famous balls on NPR or listening to Genine Gurofalo on Air Unamerican or watching fake documentaries by Michael Moore, or reading books by Al Franken...
What do you care who is listening to Rush Limbaugh? This shows me that your threatened by this. See you going on about the slanted lib coverage that you think of as fair and balanced doesnt bother me. You just prove the stereo type.

Answer 6

That symbolizes the difference in a Big way!

But the real difference between those shows is that NPR goal is to inform the public while Limbaugh is a comedy show.

Answer 7

I can only surmise that a daily mega-dosage of FOX news, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Bill O'Reilly has carved a fascist niche into the psyche of otherwise decent people. The last retort that I received was, "Bush is our president." To which I responded, "He is not my president". The comeback was, "The people elected him president". Did we now? How quickly people forget? Or do they make up history in order to justify accepting and documenting their own lies and that of their maximum leader? Al Gore received a-half million more votes than George W. Bush in the presidential election of 2000. That election was stolen by the Supreme Court by a plurality of just one vote. The "democratic process" within the United States, then, was subverted as a-half million more votes for Gore were subjugated to just one more vote for Bush. The improprieties of the Bush administration and the Republicans in the 2004 election have consolidated the theft of both elections in the minds of many millions of voters. Millions in the United States, including this writer, no longer believe that federal elections, and perhaps, all elections, can be conducted in a fair and impartial manner. We see that elections are being bought and stolen by those who possess the capital and power to buy and steal them. Elections are won through lying, cheating, deceit, disinformation, character assassination, gerrymandering, stuffing the ballot box, letting the dead vote, and denying qualified people the right to vote. Both Democrats and Republicans can be thusly accused, but the Bush administration and the neo-conservatives have raised the impropriety to both a science and an art-form. They have institutionalized deceit by incorporating it into their business plan.

Answer 8

I would agree that Rush Limbaugh offers reporting on interesting topics of the day. NPR does have a liberal biased big mouth style. Rush has to compete in the marketplace of ideas and he wins. NPR steals from taxpayers to fund their liberal drivel and they don't win, thankfully.

Answer 9

if you don't like rush turn the dial don't listen, seems a lot of people like him tho!

Answer 10

I disagree with your assessment. Rush Limbaugh has a huge following, maybe 20 million listeners ever day. NPR is clearly biased to the left. If there are more than 200,000 listeners a day, they would have to prove it to me.