You can’t make this shit up. The Boomers just won’t go away.
The fact that you posted this in the Pit suggests that you think that there’s some reason why this is a bad thing. Would you care to explain just what that bad thing is? Because guy who used to be in charge of one radio station now being in charge of a different radio station sounds perfectly normal and unremarkable, to me.
Yes NPR is banking on gullible kept liberals not perceiving the problem.
And apparently you don’t, either.
See thread title, bud.
I don’t know much about the guy, but he doesn’t sound all that bad to me.
“Four years ago, Lansing was named by President Barack Obama to be the first chief executive of the broadcasting outfit that was renamed the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Lansing has won plaudits from journalists for his rousing defense of a free press even while serving in the Trump administration, which has been notably hostile to traditional notions of the role of journalism in civic life.”
I’m not much of an NPR listener but hope it stays viable. Having an experienced and successful broadcast executive in charge is a plus.
Is there a discussion here? I listen to NPR; I’d be interested in a discussion on any changes to the organization. Thoughts?
Explain the thread title, bud.
My WAG is that it has something to do with VOA and its mission to broadcast what Farnaby considers capitalistic propoganda…
The revolving door between oil, gas, and coal company lobbyists going into and out of the Trump administration ((Scott Pruitt, Vincent DeVito, Joe Balash) doesn’t get the OP’s hackles up enough to post, but NPR hiring a guy who once led a liberal radio station does.
That kind of braindead, partisan hackery can only come from a complete and utter troll with the IQ of day old rat feces.
::checks OP’s name::
I nailed it in one!
The current chief at NPR was formerly heading up propaganda operations for the US govt. If you are relying on NPR for information, it is highly suspect now if it wasn’t before.
I would think individuals in a free society would not want to be influenced by propaganda, but perhaps I’m wrong.
In 1993, IBM hired Louis Gerstner as their CEO. He previously was the CEO of RJR Nabisco. After that, IBM started making cookies instead of computers! Remember that?
No? Well, maybe it’s possible for someone to do work at one job and then do different work at a different job. I don’t know, it sounds crazy to me, but it just might be possible.
[del]Excuse me if I don’t take your reportage at face value[/del]I wouldn’t trust you to read the ingredient list on a bottle of water without trying to put a sleezy right-wing twist to it.
I’m against him for a different reason. This hack spent two decades in for-profit commercial television. This is the fucker who did things like produce interesting TV shows just to sell ads and make a profit. These greedy capitalists can’t be trusted — just because he has been lining his pockets in the media business, he’s supposed to know something about broadcast journalism?
Down with the baby boomers who use their position to enrich themselves!
I don’t “rely on NPR for information”, so I guess I don’t have anything to worry about.
Presumably you know of some non-propaganda information source? If so, care to share it?
That’s rich, coming from a guy who consistently defends propaganda. Or is only bad when it’s pro-democracy propaganda, not when it’s pro-totalitarianism?
RT = beacon of truth
NPR = statists killing babies
It’s WillFarnaby. There is always the same thing at the core of his message: Democratic War Mongers, Aaargh!
Fuck you.
Fuck your rampant, undeniable, intractable idiocy.
Fuck your hypocritical partisanship.
Fuck your incessant, insipid trolling.
Just fucking FUCK YOU.
Yeah, I fed the troll. I try not to do it, but sometimes, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Gee, I think WillFarnaby is a bit of an ass. I thought so before, I think more so now.