[Rhodes22-list] Public Radio and TV

[Saroj Gilbert]

Heavens, I don't even know how to respond to this.. may have to leave it up 
to the eloquence of Stan...

Are you saying that public radio promotes communism and socialism?
Are you saying that public radio and TV promote control of individuals?
They are promoting the control of the point of view of the masses?
They are somehow disdaining individual freedom?

That they are biased in some way I would grant you... it is impossible to be 
a human being or an organization of any kind and not be biased... you are 
too... we all are.. it is the nature of being a human being...or group of 
human beings...  I've been listening to NPR for years, and I never picked up 
on this... hmmm... just dense maybe.. somehow intellectually defective?  I 
find them innovative, focused on presenting representation of the arts in a 
way that can't be found anywhere else, whether literature, drama, music.

Why don't you suggest they read Natan Saransky's book on Democracy.... they 
no doubt would... maybe I should read it... I haven't...

However if you are concerned about control of the individual then you MUST 
be against public education... that is the biggest and most incidious form 
of it we have in this country..  I know I am.

Saroj

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ed kroposki" <ekroposki at charter.net>
To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:28 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Public Radio and TV


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


> 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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