network to ensure that in the future, you get your news from the
government
----
no surprise ... socialism and jews go hand in hand
NPR does not even come close to representing American interests thus
should not be publicly funded.
On Mar 10, 8:44 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://townhall.com/columnists/TaraServatius/2010/10/25/npr_ceo_vivia...
> orhttp://tinyurl.com/32dmtp7
>
> NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Key Architect of FCC Govt Takeover of the News
>
> By Tara Servatius
>
> 10/25/2010
>
> NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Key Architect of FCC Govt Takeover of the News
>
> Last week, National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller took a break from
> her crusade for a government takeover of the media to swat a fly. With
> now-former NPR analyst Juan Williams suitably splattered across the
> evening news after politically incorrect comments he made on Fox News,
> Schiller can return to her real passion – the creation of a national
> network to ensure that in the future, you get your news from the
> government in general and NPR in particular.
>
> Schiller could barely contain her rage at Fox News and at Williams last
> week, saying he should discuss his fear of boarding a plane with Muslim
> passengers with "his psychiatrist." Those who understand what is at
> stake saw the Williams/Schiller dust up for what it really was – a
> declaration of war by one of the most powerful women in journalism
> against for-profit, non-liberal media. If Schiller and her liberal
> friends have their way, Fox and its viewers will pay the bill for her
> new government news network.
>
> As Schiller explained in a speech to the NPR board of directors in 2009,
> it is public radio's responsibility to fill the gap in journalism left
> by dying local television stations and newspapers.
>
> Schiller, a former New York Times executive, is one of a few dozen power
> players working with the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal
> Trade Commission and a leftist group called Free Press to "reinvent
> journalism." That's how the FTC describes it. The FCC calls what they
> are doing the "Future of Journalism." Free Press, a think tank funded by
> leftist billionaire George Soros, among others, calls it "the new public
> media."
>
> It's all the same thing, a plan to take over local news coverage from
> for-profit television, radio and print media, which Schiller and her
> friends claim is in danger of extinction. These "friends" get together
> regularly with the heads of the FCC and FTC to brainstorm the details in
> government and congressional meetings. These meetings include the
> leaders of all the country's public broadcasting outlets, including PBS,
> the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and American Public Media.
>
> They are beefing up their staffs in local news markets with herds of
> public news reporters to "take over" coverage as commercial media fails.
> Nationwide, this will cost $40 billion to $60 billion over a decade,
> they believe. Their plans, according to the FCC's Future of Media
> report, are to raise this money by taxing for-profit news organizations
> – the ones whose reporting Schiller is supposedly trying to "save." They
> want to charge "spectrum fees" of five percent of broadcast station
> revenues for use of the public spectrum and airwaves, which the
> government controls. They figure that could bring in $1.8 billion a
> year. A one percent tax on all electronic devices like cell phones,
> televisions and laptops could bring in billions more. So would a monthly
> fee on internet subscriptions.
>
> While conservatives were busy arguing that NPR should be defunded in the
> wake of the Williams debacle, Schiller was putting the finishing touches
> on the national infrastructure NPR has launched to deliver this new
> government news product to cities across the nation. A decade ago,
> defunding NPR would have sufficed. To stop Schiller now, Republicans
> would have to defund PBS and CPB as well to have any hope of torpedoing
> her plans to build a nationwide news delivery system in the style of the
> BBC, but on steroids. Schiller imagines a national public print,
> television and radio news leviathan that would compete with the top five
> news companies in the news industry.
>
> "We can create a national network around all of public radio that
> provides the kind of public service that is being not provided by other
> media companies that are suffering," Schiller told Cyberjournalist.net.
> Never mind that her planned confiscation of their revenues will cause
> them more suffering and possibly send them to an early death.
>
> Schiller calls her creation the Public Media Platform, and the left is
> very excited about it. It's a digital network in partnership with all
> the nation's public news providers, built to distribute their news
> locally, regionally and nationally. NPR has already built a
> state-of-the-art internal "wire" service in the style of the Associated
> Press to carry and distribute the news. The Corporation for Public
> Broadcasting funded seven multi-million dollar regional journalism
> centers with news teams to produce and distribute the new public news
> product.
>
> Finally, NPR's Project Argo has launched news sites at 12 NPR stations
> in major cities staffed with local reporters. That's where Soros's
> recent $1.8 million donation to NPR comes in. Those are start-up funds
> for the reporters to generate the public news product.
>
> A May Free Press report describes NPR's Public Media Platform as a first
> step in their plans for a government media takeover. The platform is in
> the early stages, and its purpose is to attract billions more in
> government funding. "We are going to strengthen and bolster our
> representation to Congress and to other entities that can help fund all
> of us," Schiller told the NPR board in her 2009 speech about a public
> media takeover of news reporting.
>
> All of this makes Schiller's very public drop-kick of Williams far more
> than a hissy fit that got out of hand. It was a declaration of war
> against commercial media in general and Fox in particular. Who wins will
> be determined by what voters do at the ballot box in the coming years.
>
> Tara Servatius
>
> Tara Servatius is a writer and radio host from North Carolina.
>
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