Comments on: Then They Came For Me http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/ Rory O'Connor's blog Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:25:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Jim Soderquist http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-548 Wed, 11 May 2005 00:15:00 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-548 the NY Times and Wash Post are not and never have been "mainstream mouthpieces" and "the overwhelming majority of the U.S. public is happy with PBS programming" is nonsense ... the majority of the US public doesn't watch or could care less about PBS; finally ... separation of church and state is cherised so why not separate our tax payer dollars (government funding) completely from PBS the NY Times and Wash Post are not and never have been “mainstream mouthpieces” and “the overwhelming majority of the U.S. public is happy with PBS programming” is nonsense … the majority of the US public doesn’t watch or could care less about PBS; finally … separation of church and state is cherised so why not separate our tax payer dollars (government funding) completely from PBS

]]> by: Meremark http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-545 Thu, 05 May 2005 09:47:45 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-545 I quit NPR and PBS mid-Clinton something. ('Clinton-something' taken from Harry Shearer, which, come to think of it, means I have not "quit" -- Harry is my one exception.) PBS had serious good stuff, which I can define in a minute, until Rash Lamebrain circa '89, started in and rolled out. All of broadcasting, and with public subsidized broadcasting in the lead, went mute in the presence of Lamebrain's hitlerism, mccarthyism, whatever it could be called, (because that's what it is). NPR / PBS went silentmost of all, It seemed everyone in the biz thought such hate would eventually consume itself or somehow just go away. And programmers said literally that. When Lamebrain's supremacism, racism, misogynism, (Franken had a good line, hearing today Lamebrain is going for marriage door number 4: "Marriage should be 3 strikes and you're out," lock Rash up, indeed), his zealotic nationalism, and reciprocal xenophobia, any of it <b>deserving to be fried under a magnifying lens <i>from the very first,</i></b> when pointed out, got brushed off with 'it'll go away.' It didn't. The first despot Bush, the Sinister, (as distinguished from Bush, Jughead), <b>earned subversion impeachment, not protection, <i>when he pardoned</i> Iran-Contra, and BCCI, and S & L thieves.</b> The final straw was NPR / PBS <b>not laughing in the face of Newtie nihilism and his Monica follies</b>, but instead keeping muted, in radio silence, like such banality politics was uncritically due some respect, and worse yet gave it sober low-toned serious-coverage treatment. Really, the germ that turned NPR / PBS sickly, and ultimately now, lifeless -- dead phosphors glowing -- was the cause of Rash Lamebrain, '89-91, the mean meme mesmerist, the hypnotist of hate. That mad cow bawling should have had its throat cut when it was born and PBS should have swung the knife. What was so defeating, or frustrating, was that claimed broadcast professionals did not hear the act. Namely:<i> It isn't his words, it is his tone of voice. And it is done by calculated imitation, not talent -- the repetition, the sing-song, the modulation, the neenerneenerneener, nyah nyah nyah, la-ti-da; which is why it is so easy and certain to spot.</i> I finally reconciled the mystery, of why no pro's 'got it,' as being due to them not knowing of the early radio (1938? '48?) openly conducted experiments in mass hypnosis. Experiments that found, and concluded: It works. It is real. Allowance (and regulation) for the effect must be made. (Tokyo Rose, 'brainwashing,' and proto-Manchurian Candidate topics were threads in the skein of that era.) As promised, the definition of 'serious good stuff' in the documentary or educational or news style of the public broadcast, informed citizen concept. This: Just the facts. Go, investigate, get the story, do the coverage, tell what's known, get it on the air. Nothing in that looks to see if there are politics in it, let alone which way they may lean. Evolution happens, and that's not political. Global climate warms, and that's not political. This idea that the partisanship of the audience has to be considered and carried into production values, is ridiculous, laughable-on-its-face ridiculous. Just for thinking it Tomlinson is wrong, and for saying it he's fired, a charlatan, an incompetent fool. As getting 'just the facts' on so many in this whole administration shows is the story with all of them. For a solution, now that CPB is toxic: what Frank Chisholm said: PBS must be destroyed. Disassembled to ground level, zeroed out its line item, and a new one begun and built. - I quit NPR and PBS mid-Clinton something. (’Clinton-something’ taken from Harry Shearer, which, come to think of it, means I have not “quit” — Harry is my one exception.) PBS had serious good stuff, which I can define in a minute, until Rash Lamebrain circa ‘89, started in and rolled out. All of broadcasting, and with public subsidized broadcasting in the lead, went mute in the presence of Lamebrain’s hitlerism, mccarthyism, whatever it could be called, (because that’s what it is). NPR / PBS went silentmost of all, It seemed everyone in the biz thought such hate would eventually consume itself or somehow just go away. And programmers said literally that. When Lamebrain’s supremacism, racism, misogynism, (Franken had a good line, hearing today Lamebrain is going for marriage door number 4: “Marriage should be 3 strikes and you’re out,” lock Rash up, indeed), his zealotic nationalism, and reciprocal xenophobia, any of it deserving to be fried under a magnifying lens from the very first, when pointed out, got brushed off with ‘it’ll go away.’ It didn’t. The first despot Bush, the Sinister, (as distinguished from Bush, Jughead), earned subversion impeachment, not protection, when he pardoned Iran-Contra, and BCCI, and S & L thieves. The final straw was NPR / PBS not laughing in the face of Newtie nihilism and his Monica follies, but instead keeping muted, in radio silence, like such banality politics was uncritically due some respect, and worse yet gave it sober low-toned serious-coverage treatment.
Really, the germ that turned NPR / PBS sickly, and ultimately now, lifeless — dead phosphors glowing — was the cause of Rash Lamebrain, ‘89-91, the mean meme mesmerist, the hypnotist of hate. That mad cow bawling should have had its throat cut when it was born and PBS should have swung the knife.
What was so defeating, or frustrating, was that claimed broadcast professionals did not hear the act. Namely: It isn’t his words, it is his tone of voice. And it is done by calculated imitation, not talent — the repetition, the sing-song, the modulation, the neenerneenerneener, nyah nyah nyah, la-ti-da; which is why it is so easy and certain to spot.
I finally reconciled the mystery, of why no pro’s ‘got it,’ as being due to them not knowing of the early radio (1938? ‘48?) openly conducted experiments in mass hypnosis. Experiments that found, and concluded: It works. It is real. Allowance (and regulation) for the effect must be made. (Tokyo Rose, ‘brainwashing,’ and proto-Manchurian Candidate topics were threads in the skein of that era.)

As promised, the definition of ’serious good stuff’ in the documentary or educational or news style of the public broadcast, informed citizen concept. This: Just the facts. Go, investigate, get the story, do the coverage, tell what’s known, get it on the air.

Nothing in that looks to see if there are politics in it, let alone which way they may lean. Evolution happens, and that’s not political. Global climate warms, and that’s not political. This idea that the partisanship of the audience has to be considered and carried into production values, is ridiculous, laughable-on-its-face ridiculous. Just for thinking it Tomlinson is wrong, and for saying it he’s fired, a charlatan, an incompetent fool.

As getting ‘just the facts’ on so many in this whole administration shows is the story with all of them.

For a solution, now that CPB is toxic: what Frank Chisholm said: PBS must be destroyed. Disassembled to ground level, zeroed out its line item, and a new one begun and built.
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]]> by: bARBARA http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-544 Thu, 05 May 2005 05:42:38 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-544 WOOPIE !!! FINALLY WE CAN GET THE LIBERAL LEANING PROGRAMS SHUT DOWN AND SPEND TAXPAYERS MONEY ON SOME ONE ELSES ''PORK BARREL'' [LOL] IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE THESE CRY BABIES HAVE SOME THING TO REALLY CRY ABOUT --LOOSING THEIR ''HONEY SWEET '' DO NO GOOD JOBS.. ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THE DAY 'PBS' [LOL] BECOMES EXTINCT................. WOOPIE !!! FINALLY WE CAN GET THE LIBERAL LEANING PROGRAMS SHUT DOWN AND SPEND TAXPAYERS MONEY ON SOME ONE ELSES ‘’PORK BARREL'’ [LOL] IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE THESE CRY BABIES HAVE SOME THING TO REALLY CRY ABOUT –LOOSING THEIR ‘’HONEY SWEET ‘’ DO NO GOOD JOBS.. ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THE DAY ‘PBS’ [LOL] BECOMES EXTINCT……………..

]]> by: jamie http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-543 Thu, 05 May 2005 03:15:26 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-543 We cannot have a democracy without and informed public. Only hearing from the talking heads on the right is misinformation more times than not. PBS has always been over-rated. There are a lot of documentaries they have refused to air over the years. The only channels on television who are attempting to air the truth about our world are LINK TV and FSTV on satellite. Everything else BLOWS compared to their programs and news. Sick of the MSM? Quit bitching and take action. Meet me in St. Louie! :) Media Reform Conference. http://www.freepress.net/conference/ We cannot have a democracy without and informed public. Only hearing from the talking heads on the right is misinformation more times than not.

PBS has always been over-rated. There are a lot of documentaries they have refused to air over the years.

The only channels on television who are attempting to air the truth about our world are LINK TV and FSTV on satellite. Everything else BLOWS compared to their programs and news.

Sick of the MSM? Quit bitching and take action.

Meet me in St. Louie! :) Media Reform Conference.

http://www.freepress.net/conference/

]]> by: jim dugan http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-542 Wed, 04 May 2005 23:23:58 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2005/05/03/then-they-came-for-me/#comment-542 With the garbage that PBS has put on the air(like the shows supporting homosexuality), this network should be stripped of public support. I have no problem with their right of say anything they like--I just do not want to pay for it. The government should not be in the broadcasting business or supporting the arts. where in the Constitution does Congress find the authority to provide funds for this? With the garbage that PBS has put on the air(like the shows supporting homosexuality), this network should be stripped of public support. I have no problem with their right of say anything they like–I just do not want to pay for it.
The government should not be in the broadcasting business or supporting the arts. where in the Constitution does Congress find the authority to provide funds for this?

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