her real passion – the creation of a national 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 <[email protected]> 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. > > ------------------------------------ > > Report any problems, suggestions or abuse to > [email protected] > > Yahoo! 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