Moyers: NPR Is Like Art, Unlike Talk Radio, the ‘Right-wing Romper Room’
Former PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers is at it again, agitating against Republicans for daring to oppose National Public Radio subsidies. In the latest installment (with Michael Winship) on The Huffington Post, Moyers concluded with a quote illustrating “the importance of a public media whose obligation is not to a political or corporate paymaster, but to the integrity of the work and the trust of the listener.” NPR, he claimed, was like Kennedy's tribute to the poet Robert Frost: “The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state ,” Kennedy said. “… In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having 'nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.'”
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on March 21, 2011. Filed under