Harry has said on numerous occasions that the credit they wouldn't read was that "The Big Uneasy" was a documentary "about the flooding of New Orleans," which in itself doesn't strike me as at all political (even if the doc itself is).
I won't complain about NPR funding credits, though, as one of them led me to my new job. --Dave Sikula On Sep 22, 11:31 am, "Mark J." <[email protected]> wrote: > A funder I actually heard on WBEZ in Chicago this morning while > walking out of a store (I assume it's an NPR funder, since BEZ tends > to have their own people read the NPR funders instead of run Gene > Tavares' voice): "Support for this program is provided by Fox > Broadcasting Company, where Simon Cowell returns to television > on..." (I left the room, but I think you can finish it.) > > Outside of the fact that it's from a dvision of News Corp., the > screaming to message boards and the inbox of the NPR ombud from the > far left that believes that NPR is as right wing as Fixed Noise and > the highbrows/upper-middlebrows who think that NPR has "dumbed down" > to serve corporate masters should be voluminous. I recall when > "Morning Edition" did an interview with Keifer Sutherland a few years > ago without knowing that Fox had bought some funder spots on NPR to > promote "24," the conspiracy theorists were having a field day. > > And Harry Shearer, who claims that NPR censored the funder for his > Katrina doc when he tried to buy funder spots when I think their > policy is that Gene Tavares does not read political advocacy > statements. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
