75 seconds on When The Wind Blew:Reading the Constitution With The Representative From Tennessee
Series: The River Is Wide
From: Susan Cook
Length: 00:04:00
While reading the Constitution recently, the wind blew a page over. The first article of the Bill of Rights was no longer at the top. Instead, the Right to Bear Arms sat there- as if Freedom of Speech was gone. I think that happened to the Tennessee Representative who voted to end NPR's Federal dollars so taxpayers don't pay to broadcast views they don't like.
That contradicts Freedom of Speech and reality . Taxpayers pay for many things they don't like, like war.
NPR has never said only likable things. They have always said things others don't notice. Occasionally, local stations toss someone off the truck for rankling Trustees- a scary precendent this firing humble truth-tellers. Everything changes.
Impartiality means leaving in the dislikes of the Tennessee Representative and mine. Together that rough beast, its hour come round at last, also known as the truth, begins to move. We all create the truth, even when the wind blows the page over. What if National Public Radio is not there to notice?
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While reading the Constitution recently, the wind blew a page over. The first article of the Bill of Rights was no longer at the top. Instead, the Right to Bear Arms sat there- as if Freedom of Speech was gone. I think that happened to the Tennessee Representative who voted to end NPR's Federal dollars so taxpayers don't pay to broadcast views they don't like.
That contradicts Freedom of Speech and reality . Taxpayers pay for many things they don't like, like war.
NPR has never said only likable things. They have always said things others don't notice. Occasionally, local stations toss someone off the truck for rankling Trustees- a scary precendent this firing humble truth-tellers. Everything changes.
Impartiality means leaving in the dislikes of the Tennessee Representative and mine. Together that rough beast, its hour come round at last, also known as the truth, begins to move. We all create the truth, even when the wind blows the page over. What if National Public Radio is not there to notice?
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75 Seconds On When The Wind Blew: Reading the Constitution with the Tennessee Representative
-Susan Cook-
While reading the Constitution recently, the wind blew a page over. The first article of the Bill of Rights was no longer at the top. Instead, the Right to Bear Arms sat there- as if Freedom of Speech was gone. I think that happened to the Tennessee Representative who voted to end NPR's Federal dollars so taxpayers don't pay to broadcast views they don't like.
That contradicts Freedom of Speech and reality . Taxpayers pay for many things they don't like, like war.
NPR has never said only likable things. They have always said things others don't notice. Occasionally, local stations toss someone off the truck for rankling Trustees- a scary precendent this firing humble truth-tel...
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