[Rhodes22-list] Public Radio and TV

[Bill Effros]

Ed,

Natan Sharansky was interviewed for an hour on Public Radio last week.  
If you would like to hear the program, click on it at:

http://wnyc.com/shows/bl/episodes/05192005

Bill Effros

ed kroposki wrote:

>Saroj:
>	Unfortunately your public radio and TV often promotes a control the
>masses point of view.  Communism and socialism are political positions used
>to control individuals.  Big business is corporate control of the
>individual.  Public radio promotes the same thesis of controlling the
>individual.  
>	Individual freedom whether political, educational, business is
>distained by your public media. Public Radio or TV promotes only the view
>which represent their biased point of view.
>	Has radio reader ever read Natan Saransky's book on Democracy?  Have
>they promoted writers who espouse individual freedoms?  
>	They advocate just another form of bigness...
>
>Ed Kroposki
>Greenville, SC, USA
>Addendum:  "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.  This
>expresses my idea of democracy.  Whatever differ from this, to the extent of
>difference, is no democracy."  A. Lincoln
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Saroj Gilbert
>Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:01 AM
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Commitment to war
>
>So we can have a source of news that isn't massaged to meet the demands of 
>the corporate advertisers....
>So we aren't bombarded by commercials...
>So we can listen to the BBC...
>So we can experience innovation that isn't dependent on commercially 
>dictated norms...
>
>It is mostly subscriber-supported and grant supported anyhow... but you'll 
>notice more and more that it receives a lot of commercial support too so it 
>may not be able to maintain its independence.
>
>Saroj
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Philip Esteban" <3drecon at comcast.net>
>To: "'stan'" <stan at rhodes22.com>; "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" 
><rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:09 PM
>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Commitment to war
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>>Why, with hundreds of channels available are we funding public radio and
>>television, but we are told we need our taxes raised to meet other
>>requirements?  The government needs to get out of the radio and tv 
>>business.
>>
>>Philip
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