Terry discusses local officials touting the expansion of Waterfront Park into WEST LOU-UH-VUL, a name we stole from a town in western Kentucky. (If you say WAH-FAH instead of WiFi, then Loo-uh-vul fits right into your Jethro laden elocution skeelz!).
In Washington, members of Congress went on the attack against left-leaning NPR. Jim Jordan and Jamie Comer tried to derail NPR CEO Katherine Maher. She's like, "who me? I drive down the center lane on the highway."
Opinion is part of the media universe, albeit separate from general news gathering. That's what the AP stylebook would have us all believe.
But news consumers like to hear their own biases reflected back toward them. MSNBC viewers are convinced that they're hearing unbiased news reporting and sensible commentary. The exact opposite sentiment is embraced by conservatives consuming Fox News.
Today's issue: the Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives don't want to fund liberal NPR and PBS opinions but are fine with conservative views on various media platforms.
Conservatives control all three branches of government right now so expect this battle over funding public media to remain active for now.
In Washington, members of Congress went on the attack against left-leaning NPR. Jim Jordan and Jamie Comer tried to derail NPR CEO Katherine Maher. She's like, "who me? I drive down the center lane on the highway."
Opinion is part of the media universe, albeit separate from general news gathering. That's what the AP stylebook would have us all believe.
But news consumers like to hear their own biases reflected back toward them. MSNBC viewers are convinced that they're hearing unbiased news reporting and sensible commentary. The exact opposite sentiment is embraced by conservatives consuming Fox News.
Today's issue: the Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives don't want to fund liberal NPR and PBS opinions but are fine with conservative views on various media platforms.
Conservatives control all three branches of government right now so expect this battle over funding public media to remain active for now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On Poul Miles News Radio eight forty. Yes, and then
there'll be a board of trustees meeting a little while
at u of L. Yeah, it's about five o'clock. Okay,
let me know if anything happens. There's so much speculation online,
it's fascinating. Yeah, give them some time. There'll be an
executive session for a while. That means nobody's allowed to snoop,
but they have something to announce. They come out and
(00:21):
they say, where's Paul Miles. We're not making the announcement
until Miles is here. I'm in the office. Unfortunately, that's
them news cracker, Paul Miles. We'll find out if there's
anything of significance shaping up at the University of Louisville
this afternoon. And that's what we do. We're news collectors.
That's where that goes. We'll find odd things that go on.
We'll find interesting things like the mayor and the governor
(00:44):
there talking about the westward expansion of Waterfront Park. That's
awesome because it's just been such a great front porch,
if you will. Ever since they got rid of the
Blues families scrap Piles. I love the Blues. They're great folks.
But you know, for a long time, people will just
(01:07):
roll down the Ohio River. Well, yeah, I want us
putting this old scrap this done down the river bank.
And we just had these piles of scrap metal. And
then obviously somebody said, you know, this is no way
to operate. That's the heck of a front porch you
have there, just Junkyard, I mean you know those the
soap plant over there, the pall Mall of Plants was
(01:27):
a prison until one hundred years ago, was a prison.
They'd bring people down the river all right, convic and
get out. Well aren't you going to go to the shore?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Just swim there. Captain's got you right there. He's got
a rifle pointed at you. Don't try and swim down river.
We'll pop you. And then the guys swim in. They
put him in the prison that became the pall Mall
of Plant eventually, and then we had junk piles over
here on this side. And then some nice smart people
came along here in the nineteen eighties I think it was,
(02:00):
and said, let's clean up the riverfront. And it looks
so good now. So now we're expanding our westward reach
in too. I think tenth to fourteenth streets right now
to expand the waterfront park footprint, although obviously it gets
a little challenge to certain areas where there's crossover highways
and so forth. Some people want those ring movements, like yeah,
(02:22):
I don't think that's gonna happen. Anyway, there you go.
The mayor was out there today, is very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
All.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This is, without a doubt, without it, as.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Fine of a park as you can build, not just
in West Louisville, not just in Louisville, not just in Kentucky,
but anywhere in the world. We'll put this playport up
against any other space.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Really would you did you put it up against I
don't know, Yellowstone National. I don't think you would. But
still it's a nice addition. Little hyperboles throw it around
there in West Louville. That's what that's hillbilly talk, of course,
for Louisville and West loowis Louisville. West Louville or West
(03:03):
Louisville is a town down near Owensboro. But we always,
I don't know why we go to this weird semantics
thing here. There's the west end, the east end, the
south end are recognized terms for portions of the city,
But a lot of reporters like thrilling around to West Louville.
We're going to West Louville. Yeah, it's a little town
(03:25):
just south west of Owensboro. Look it up. They already
have the name. We're stealing their intellectual property. The governor
was here too, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Because of this expansion, ten thousand more Kentuckians will live
within twenty minute walk to a park. It'll provide great
experiences to families at no cost, close to their home.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The tricks getting anybody to think they're going to walk
for twenty minutes. I mean, come on, let's live in
reality around here. We need one of those those ski
lift things, you know, you take them from four Argolois.
What do they call those guys? I just call them
a ski left. But it's got some other fancy term
he does, and I can't think of it. I'm talking about. Yeah,
(04:11):
you know, just monorail whatever. It takes something to whip
people around the whole downtown area.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Remember when they put this, this is very long ago,
the Caesar's Casino in They were going to put a
system over the river. That's where you could go from
Louisville over to the casine exactly right. A little tram system,
that's what it is. Tram that was I'm like what
they have those amusement parks all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, I'd be like from Shawnee Park or whatever over
to the gambling house. There a tram to get up
on there. I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem at all.
Now those teenagers climbing up on top of those cars on.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
At the casino, we've got lick it up, gonna jump off.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
In the river. So that's locals leaders out there today,
and they're celebrating that. On the national stage. We have
Representative Jim Jordan challenging in PR. You may have heard
about this a lot of the public radio stations around America.
They're all like, oh, well, go to Trump's bag. Oh no,
And of course NPR is a leftist thing. Everybody pretends like,
(05:13):
oh no, we're journalists. Yeah, you're lefty journalists. I mean,
all you gotta do is follow the reporting and you
see that that's just but that's that's not right or wrong.
It's just that's the flavor. And people are drawn to
that because they like what they're hearing. It's the echo
chamber mentality we have in our universe. But anyway, Jim
Jordan questioning the CEO of NPR, I believe her name
(05:36):
is Catherine mo Ma Ma.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Right here we go, certainly, And I wrote, he wrote
a long story about what you do at NPR is MPR.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Biased, Congressman, I have never seen any instance of never
of pro political bias determining editorial decisions.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Now well, miss mister Berliner in his story a last
year wrote, I've in the DC area editorial positions at MPR.
He said he found eighty seven registered Democrats, zero Republicans.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Is that accurate?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
We do not track the numbers or the voter registration,
but I find that the.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Award winning journalists who worked twenty five years at MPR,
mister Berlin or was he lying when he wrote that.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
I am not presuming such. I just don't have We
don't track that information about.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I don't get out of here with that nonsense. We
didn't know we didn't have the Democrats, we don't have
any Republicans. Please, we all work together. Everybody knows what
everybody else's life's about. Come on, you work with someoney
for more than fifteen minutes. You know what they are,
you know what they're like. Stop with that anyway, Catherine, nice,
(06:49):
nice poker face. I mean, you really fooled me now,
James Comer, I think eastermove around western Kentucky too, maybe
over by West Law and he but they didn't. They
jerry mander the whole segment of Kentucky. So they put
a little fish hook on there so he could live
in Frankfort and still be technically in his district. I
(07:11):
know the answer is yes. Anyway, Comber's up there, he's
running the hearing today, and he does He's not quite
sure about the phrase editorial standards, and that's a little embarrassing.
I'm sorry, James Comber. We used to call him Jamie
back when he didn't take himself so seriously, we have
called him James.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Now, do you want to dispute anything that I said
in the remaining thirty seconds?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Thank you, Congressman. First of all, I want to recognize
your concerns. One of the first things that I did
in coming in in May was to beef up our
editorial standards. I directed my editor in chief, who, by
the way, I was in PR even doing editorials. I'm
I'm sorry, do editorial. I don't mean editorial in terms
of opinion editorial.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Do you even need a What does it matter if
you're if you're a federally funded entity that's supposed to
provide the news, not provide the news?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Of course, of course, Congressman, I mean editorial standards. For
our journalism was to beef up our editorial practices, bringing
in more editors, to make sure that we have more
points of view reflected in every story. I've engaged in
a number of actions and time, I've lost confidence of
public radio.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I don't think, madam Chaerr they should get a pity
a federal fund.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Are you back? Are you back? Right now? Editorial standards
are about structuring what you're doing, editing and all. That's
also part of that umbrella term. I just thought i'd
clarify that too for James Comer, who thought y'all knowing editor, Well,
yeah they do. That's how that works. There's lots of
news organizations who have people who who use the sub
(08:47):
head that says opinion, so that you know it's an opinion,
and of course you know it's an opinion three words in.
That's what some people do. You know, the guys Clay
and Buck that are on before me. They're absolute right
all the time, doesn't matter what happens. They're taking the
side of the right every time. And then like for
local flavor, like on the Courier Journal, you have Joe Girth.
(09:07):
He writes columns and he's a lefty. It's it's always
about lefties. That's just his gig. That's why they chose him,
because they wanted him to pump out that sort of opinion,
that view. I mean, Joe Girth, he's got a pretty
sweet gig. I've known him for years and years. He
has to go in and write a column and then
the only other thing on his job description is on
(09:28):
his way home, he's supposed to run over at least
three people wearing a Trump hat. That's just all it is.
And then he goes home and that's the end of
the day. How was work today, dear? My column wasn't
that good. But I wiped out six trumpies today. That's
his job. Welcome to show Biss back in a few
You're on news radio a forty whas
On Poul Miles News Radio eight forty. Yes, and then
there'll be a board of trustees meeting a little while
at u of L. Yeah, it's about five o'clock. Okay,
let me know if anything happens. There's so much speculation online,
it's fascinating. Yeah, give them some time. There'll be an
executive session for a while. That means nobody's allowed to snoop,
but they have something to announce. They come out and
(00:21):
they say, where's Paul Miles. We're not making the announcement
until Miles is here. I'm in the office. Unfortunately, that's
them news cracker, Paul Miles. We'll find out if there's
anything of significance shaping up at the University of Louisville
this afternoon. And that's what we do. We're news collectors.
That's where that goes. We'll find odd things that go on.
We'll find interesting things like the mayor and the governor
(00:44):
there talking about the westward expansion of Waterfront Park. That's
awesome because it's just been such a great front porch,
if you will. Ever since they got rid of the
Blues families scrap Piles. I love the Blues. They're great folks.
But you know, for a long time, people will just
(01:07):
roll down the Ohio River. Well, yeah, I want us
putting this old scrap this done down the river bank.
And we just had these piles of scrap metal. And
then obviously somebody said, you know, this is no way
to operate. That's the heck of a front porch you
have there, just Junkyard, I mean you know those the
soap plant over there, the pall Mall of Plants was
(01:27):
a prison until one hundred years ago, was a prison.
They'd bring people down the river all right, convic and
get out. Well aren't you going to go to the shore?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Just swim there. Captain's got you right there. He's got
a rifle pointed at you. Don't try and swim down river.
We'll pop you. And then the guys swim in. They
put him in the prison that became the pall Mall
of Plant eventually, and then we had junk piles over
here on this side. And then some nice smart people
came along here in the nineteen eighties I think it was,
(02:00):
and said, let's clean up the riverfront. And it looks
so good now. So now we're expanding our westward reach
in too. I think tenth to fourteenth streets right now
to expand the waterfront park footprint, although obviously it gets
a little challenge to certain areas where there's crossover highways
and so forth. Some people want those ring movements, like yeah,
(02:22):
I don't think that's gonna happen. Anyway, there you go.
The mayor was out there today, is very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
All.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
This is, without a doubt, without it, as.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Fine of a park as you can build, not just
in West Louisville, not just in Louisville, not just in Kentucky,
but anywhere in the world. We'll put this playport up
against any other space.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Really would you did you put it up against I
don't know, Yellowstone National. I don't think you would. But
still it's a nice addition. Little hyperboles throw it around
there in West Louville. That's what that's hillbilly talk, of course,
for Louisville and West loowis Louisville. West Louville or West
(03:03):
Louisville is a town down near Owensboro. But we always,
I don't know why we go to this weird semantics
thing here. There's the west end, the east end, the
south end are recognized terms for portions of the city,
But a lot of reporters like thrilling around to West Louville.
We're going to West Louville. Yeah, it's a little town
(03:25):
just south west of Owensboro. Look it up. They already
have the name. We're stealing their intellectual property. The governor
was here too, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Because of this expansion, ten thousand more Kentuckians will live
within twenty minute walk to a park. It'll provide great
experiences to families at no cost, close to their home.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The tricks getting anybody to think they're going to walk
for twenty minutes. I mean, come on, let's live in
reality around here. We need one of those those ski
lift things, you know, you take them from four Argolois.
What do they call those guys? I just call them
a ski left. But it's got some other fancy term
he does, and I can't think of it. I'm talking about. Yeah,
(04:11):
you know, just monorail whatever. It takes something to whip
people around the whole downtown area.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Remember when they put this, this is very long ago,
the Caesar's Casino in They were going to put a
system over the river. That's where you could go from
Louisville over to the casine exactly right. A little tram system,
that's what it is. Tram that was I'm like what
they have those amusement parks all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, I'd be like from Shawnee Park or whatever over
to the gambling house. There a tram to get up
on there. I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem at all.
Now those teenagers climbing up on top of those cars on.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
At the casino, we've got lick it up, gonna jump off.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
In the river. So that's locals leaders out there today,
and they're celebrating that. On the national stage. We have
Representative Jim Jordan challenging in PR. You may have heard
about this a lot of the public radio stations around America.
They're all like, oh, well, go to Trump's bag. Oh no,
And of course NPR is a leftist thing. Everybody pretends like,
(05:13):
oh no, we're journalists. Yeah, you're lefty journalists. I mean,
all you gotta do is follow the reporting and you
see that that's just but that's that's not right or wrong.
It's just that's the flavor. And people are drawn to
that because they like what they're hearing. It's the echo
chamber mentality we have in our universe. But anyway, Jim
Jordan questioning the CEO of NPR, I believe her name
(05:36):
is Catherine mo Ma Ma.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Right here we go, certainly, And I wrote, he wrote
a long story about what you do at NPR is MPR.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Biased, Congressman, I have never seen any instance of never
of pro political bias determining editorial decisions.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Now well, miss mister Berliner in his story a last
year wrote, I've in the DC area editorial positions at MPR.
He said he found eighty seven registered Democrats, zero Republicans.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Is that accurate?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
We do not track the numbers or the voter registration,
but I find that the.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Award winning journalists who worked twenty five years at MPR,
mister Berlin or was he lying when he wrote that.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
I am not presuming such. I just don't have We
don't track that information about.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I don't get out of here with that nonsense. We
didn't know we didn't have the Democrats, we don't have
any Republicans. Please, we all work together. Everybody knows what
everybody else's life's about. Come on, you work with someoney
for more than fifteen minutes. You know what they are,
you know what they're like. Stop with that anyway, Catherine, nice,
(06:49):
nice poker face. I mean, you really fooled me now,
James Comer, I think eastermove around western Kentucky too, maybe
over by West Law and he but they didn't. They
jerry mander the whole segment of Kentucky. So they put
a little fish hook on there so he could live
in Frankfort and still be technically in his district. I
(07:11):
know the answer is yes. Anyway, Comber's up there, he's
running the hearing today, and he does He's not quite
sure about the phrase editorial standards, and that's a little embarrassing.
I'm sorry, James Comber. We used to call him Jamie
back when he didn't take himself so seriously, we have
called him James.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Now, do you want to dispute anything that I said
in the remaining thirty seconds?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Thank you, Congressman. First of all, I want to recognize
your concerns. One of the first things that I did
in coming in in May was to beef up our
editorial standards. I directed my editor in chief, who, by
the way, I was in PR even doing editorials. I'm
I'm sorry, do editorial. I don't mean editorial in terms
of opinion editorial.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Do you even need a What does it matter if
you're if you're a federally funded entity that's supposed to
provide the news, not provide the news?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Of course, of course, Congressman, I mean editorial standards. For
our journalism was to beef up our editorial practices, bringing
in more editors, to make sure that we have more
points of view reflected in every story. I've engaged in
a number of actions and time, I've lost confidence of
public radio.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I don't think, madam Chaerr they should get a pity
a federal fund.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Are you back? Are you back? Right now? Editorial standards
are about structuring what you're doing, editing and all. That's
also part of that umbrella term. I just thought i'd
clarify that too for James Comer, who thought y'all knowing editor, Well,
yeah they do. That's how that works. There's lots of
news organizations who have people who who use the sub
(08:47):
head that says opinion, so that you know it's an opinion,
and of course you know it's an opinion three words in.
That's what some people do. You know, the guys Clay
and Buck that are on before me. They're absolute right
all the time, doesn't matter what happens. They're taking the
side of the right every time. And then like for
local flavor, like on the Courier Journal, you have Joe Girth.
(09:07):
He writes columns and he's a lefty. It's it's always
about lefties. That's just his gig. That's why they chose him,
because they wanted him to pump out that sort of opinion,
that view. I mean, Joe Girth, he's got a pretty
sweet gig. I've known him for years and years. He
has to go in and write a column and then
the only other thing on his job description is on
(09:28):
his way home, he's supposed to run over at least
three people wearing a Trump hat. That's just all it is.
And then he goes home and that's the end of
the day. How was work today, dear? My column wasn't
that good. But I wiped out six trumpies today. That's
his job. Welcome to show Biss back in a few
You're on news radio a forty whas
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