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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (4633)	7/12/2001 3:23:14 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

I guess I'm tired of tuning in NPR on the way home from work and hearing some article about "gays in the military," "gays being this or that," "Aids as a disease anyone can get," etc. etc. The choice of topics is too often one near and dear to the political left. My overall impression about gay related stories is that they are more frequently than not related to discrimination. If anti-gay discrimination is not of interest to the political right; I suppose that may be one of the reasons why there is anti-gay discrimination. Aids as a disease anyone can get I think the various world health orginations would agree with that statement. I sometimes hear conservatives discount the it's important or relevance by waving it off as a "behavioral problem". It is behavioral; it's relevant to those persons that have sex. I think that's a very large non-partisan group. Pop an e-mail to NPR on a topic you want to hear about. It shouldn't take longer than it took to write the post to me. It may not do anything, but what they heck. Telling me definitely will not affect NPR programming; there's an outside chance that an e-mail to NPR could. If you want them to talk about 2nd amendment; why not? They might bring up that US vs. Miller decision of the Supreme Court though. <s> As to subtle bias on NPR: Articles about George Bush begin and end with a downer, even if the content is "balanced." Articles about a left-wing topic begin and end with an upper. Interviews feature an articulate spokesman for the left-wing topic and an inarticulate one for the opposing view. I'll pay particular attention to your point as I listen to NPR in the near future. On your last point, I can't recall ever being struck with that observation, i.e., an inarticulate right spokesman. jttmab