Sometimes I wonder just what it takes to open the eyes of the American voting public. I not talking about the dead people and convicts that helped vote President Hussein Obama in office, I mean just plain folks like us. And, who didn’t see this issue of NPR’s train wreck getting the attention and interference by Obama. When a business owner has a division that is problematic, and not making any moves to improve itself, then the owner takes action. That’s what has happened to the major players in the month’s long debacle that began with the firing of Juan Williams.
NPR has long been losing in the game of “fail and balanced” reporting and commentary, that’s reality folks, not my opinion. Also, I’m not surprised that the conversation has turned to the validation of NPR, that is, why does that organization even exist, where’s the value? The bar for NPR has been to become the American version of the BBC, but when compared, the BBC beams true news and commentary around the globe, and not everything that everyone hears on the BBC they agree with, but is there a secret agenda there, I think not. Does NPR still exist just because the funding is there, and it’s a good place to park left leaning cronies that have a track record of making poor management decisions? It would seem to me, that if the President of the United States truly wanted the very best for this country, he would be looking at NPR sideways, making tough decisions about where best to place hard working American’s tax dollars. No, he feels the need to throw good money at a skunk, and NPR has really been stinking up the place.
Question, does the President belong in the debate over the validation of NPR?
Deep Thinkers (DT) talking points;
- Once again NPR has shown almost every wrong management move that there is. No plan, no internal communication (about the plan they don’t have), no team cohesiveness (managers not singing the same verse from the same page), no accountability, except in cases (handled very poorly) where accountability was wrongly placed (Juan Williams).
- If an organization is to be managed, competent MANGERS should be hired and tasked to do that. As we’ve seen, placing cronies that didn’t exactly make it rain with their previous employers in high places with much responsibility is a recipe for failure.
- DTs think that the American people would be better served with a President that would focus on the important business of the people, but it’s too late for that. President Hussein Obama is much more concerned with the (rights) of the unions, and with his re-election campaign and with giving even more money to NPR, than the needs of the country.
We have a President that is more focused on just being President that doing the work of our President. That is, maybe he should take the time to actually meet and know the name of 60% of his cabinet members. DTs think that instead of sending thousands of paid pro-union protestors to the Wisconsin capital, the President should apologize to Israel for treating them like a three legged dog. On March 9th, White House spokesman Jay Carney said that President Obama considers increasing the appropriation of funds to The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports NPR from $420 million to $451 million as “worthwhile” and an “important priority”. Increasing funding to NPR, instead of cutting them off during a time when the national deficit is 14 trillion dollars, is reckless and indicative of a President that has never had to meet a payroll. It’s pretty evident that the strong sense of enablement and lack of concern for getting the right things done for the right reasons from the current administration will end in 2012.
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