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RADAR Alert: NPR Article Diverts Listener's Attention Away From Majority of Victims
posted by Matt on 11:11 PM May 30th, 2005
RADAR Project Considering that the majority of those victimized by violent crime are men, why does National Public Radio turn a story about the Federal Crime Victim's Fund into a story about battered women?

Men are 3.4 times as likely to be murdered than women according to the U.S. Dept. of Justice. And although rates for all types of violent crime have dropped significantly in the last decade, men continue to be 38.4% more likely to be victims of violent crime than are women (see http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/vsxtab.htm).

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NPR Article Diverts Listener's Attention Away From Majority of Victims

If NPR must focus on victims of domestic abuse, why do they focus exclusively on female victims when the U.S. Dept. of Justice reports (PDF document) that 834,732 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner, constituting 36% of those so victimized?

The article claims, "Money goes to states to help families make up for lost wages or pay hospital bills or funeral expenses." But based on the organization featured in the article, it would appear that funding is going instead to organizations that blatantly discriminate against males, both adult and child. The featured organization is the Family Crisis Center's Prince Georges County "Safe House", which is listed on the DC Housing Network's website as accepting only women and their children, and then only if the children don't happen to be boys over 12.

After discriminatory organizations like that have received their cut, is there any money left to cover the lost wages, hospital bills, and funeral expenses that the program was intended to cover? Are the majority of crime victims, who happen to be male, left unserved while the funding that was intended to compensate them is used by organizations that vilify them? And why does NPR choose to glorify such organizations?

Contact National Public Radio and tell them:

1. More than three times as many men as women are murdered annually. (U.S. Dept. of Justice: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/gender.htm)
2. 38.4% more men than women suffer violent crime. (U.S. Dept. of Justice: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/vsxtab.htm)
3. Even when considering only domestic violence cases, over one-third of those victimized are men. (U.S. Dept. of Justice: http://ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdf).
4. By using only battered women to illustrate a story on the Crime Victim's Fund, they've made the majority of victims of violent crime invisible.

Here’s the contact information:

U.S. mail:
Weekend Edition
National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20001-3753

Ombudsman: Jeffrey A. Dvorkin
Send comments to Mr. Dvorkin via the webform found here.
FAX: 202-513-3329

When you write, be sure to include your name, address, and daytime telephone number.

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Man-hating National Public Radio harms us all (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 01:35 AM May 31st, 2005 EST (#1)
NPR embraces the gender feminist agenda and this show is yet one more documentation of NPR's gender feminist, man-hating agenda. It is a travesty that tax-payer funding has gone, and I believe, is still going to fund this propaganda.

Sincerely, Ray
I sent him this email (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 01:50 AM May 31st, 2005 EST (#2)
I am sickened that NPR chooses to embrace gender feminist propaganda about domestic violence. Your weekend edition show is one more documentation of NPR's gender feminist, misandry. It is a tragedy that the public gives any support at all to a propaganda tool that airs such socially irresponsible programming as that aired on your most recent NPR weekend edition here,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=4661887

FYI

1. More than three times as many men as women are murdered annually. (U.S. Dept. of Justice: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/gender.htm)
2. 38.4% more men than women suffer violent crime. (U.S. Dept. of Justice: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/vsxtab. htm)
3. Even when considering only domestic violence cases, over one-third of those victimized are men. (U.S. Dept. of Justice: http://ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdf).
4. By using only battered women to illustrate a story on the Crime Victim's Fund, they've made the majority of victims of violent crime invisible.

Ray
Re:Man-hating National Public Radio harms us all (Score:1)
by khankrumthebulgar on 04:02 PM June 1st, 2005 EST (#3)
National Public Radio is a tool of the Left and they are in bed with the Gender Feminists. The left is losing in the marketplace of ideas. Fewer and fewer Women are willing to call themselves Feminists. And if Women get Drafted when the Draft is reinstated and large numbers start dying in combat they may be killed by other Women.

Feminism is a movement that should have died along time ago. It is killing European culture. It has contributed to a plunging birth rate in Australia, a Marriage Strike in the US. And an insane level of Suicides amongst Divorced Fathers here that the media and Government totally ignores. I would love to see what the author of Freakanomics would have to say about Male Gender stats.

The FemNags lost the Presidential Election, House, Senate, and are at risk of losing the Judiciary. They are in full panic mode. They are at risk of losing an important propaganda and funding source if the VAWA is not renewed. It should be vetoed by Bush. Screw em.
man-hating radio, eh? (Score:1)
by scudsucker on 06:54 PM June 1st, 2005 EST (#5)
Then what do you have to say about our man-hating President? As for NPR being a "tool of the left", name me one source of media that has less bias than NPR.


"...show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence" George W. Bush - Republican 2005

Re:man-hating radio, eh? (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 11:30 PM June 1st, 2005 EST (#7)
Scudsucker attacks with a bigoted political message as is his intolerant forte. Is anybody else getting sick of this bigot viciously attacking posters to this site?
Re:man-hating radio, eh? (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 05:49 AM June 2nd, 2005 EST (#12)
"Then what do you have to say about our man-hating President?"

I hear your accusation, but you don't support it.

If you want to get into an ugly flame war over partisan politics here is a good thread for you to go to,
Free Republic

They are currently roasting, er, I mean hosting, Hillary Clinton.

Your man-hating femi-crat party is the one sheltering and promoting the gender feminists. You should go "Freep" and defend her and take on all those nasty Republicans. Do you find "Men's Rights Activists" frequently posting to liberal left web sites or do gender feminists not allow the "Patriarchy" to have an equal voice? It's kind of "back of the bus" for men at those places, eh?

As for NPR being a "tool of the left", name me one source of media that has less bias than NPR.

No problem, Glenn Sacks, HisSide.

"...show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence" George W. Bush - Republican 2005"

Bush should stop acquiescing to the liberal left's domestic violence agenda. You know, the one pushed on NPR.
Re:man-hating radio, eh? (Score:1)
by scudsucker on 02:16 PM June 12th, 2005 EST (#18)
I hear your accusation, but you don't support it.

Translation: you don't want to answer the question. Typical.

No problem, Glenn Sacks, HisSide.

Problem: Glenn Sacks is a columnist, not a newspaper, not a TV station, not a radio channel. I'm asking you to name me a horse and you give me a duck. Try again.

But since you mention Glenn Sacks, go look at how much he complains about liberals, Democrats and "man hating NPR". He doens't. At all. He complains about those politicians and people who hurt or disparage men. Politics are irrelevant to him, as they should be to you. Too bad your partisan politics are your first, second and third priorities.


"...show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence" George W. Bush - Republican 2005

get a grip, Ray (Score:1)
by scudsucker on 06:50 PM June 1st, 2005 EST (#4)
Taxpayer dollars also fund the salary of the man quoted in my sig. Is that evidence of the Republican's "gender feminist, man-hating agenda"? And this is just a few lines out of one show...I wonder if you would go into hysterics when something similar is said on Fox News. Somehow, I doubt it.


"...show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence" George W. Bush - Republican 2005

Re:get a grip, Ray (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 05:11 AM June 2nd, 2005 EST (#9)
Gender feminist, man-hating bigots do have strong influence at NPR. Scudsucker is the one who has interjected party politics and is grossly misinforming about which party is the big tent housing gender feminists. Scudsucker is the one, again, engaging in personal attacks against poster to this site.

Also, NPR's bias against men was much more than a few lines in their show. It was a significant portion of the show.

Sorry Scudsucker, people have a right to finger the strong bias against men at NPR. An example of that bias is the topic of this thread. Try to keep it on topic, rather than using your straw man. If you have a story or a topic you want to write about specifically why don't you post it like everyone else?

As for as your bullying tactics to others on this site. You need serious professional help. I suggest you seek out professional help to help you stop your vicious personal attacks to the people who post on this site. God knows we already have enough man-haters at NPR harming men.
Re:get a grip, Ray (Score:1)
by scudsucker on 02:10 PM June 12th, 2005 EST (#17)
Gender feminist, man-hating bigots do have strong influence at NPR.

Where. Prove it. The chairman of the the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, appointed by Bush to remove the pervasive "liberal bias" from the radio network, has done two user serveys. Both have found a remarkable lack of any bias; in fact 12% of responders said NPR had a conservative bias.

Scudsucker is the one who has interjected party politics and is grossly misinforming about which party is the big tent housing gender feminists. Scudsucker is the one, again, engaging in personal attacks against poster to this site.

My God are you guys pathetic. First you are the KKK calling anti-defamation leauge racist. Second, conservatives like you like to talk about how tought they are, and yet cry like 4 year old babies stuck by a splinter when someone dares to pierce the nice little facist echo chamber that you've set up.

Sorry Scudsucker, people have a right to finger the strong bias against men at NPR.

Except no such bias exists, and I've proved it. If three anecdotes and a 5 second quote prove that NPR is anti-male, the quote in my sig proves that Bush hates men many times as much.


"...show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence" George W. Bush - Republican 2005

gender feminist are supported by the left (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 05:27 AM June 2nd, 2005 EST (#10)
Conservative women are not gender feminists. Here are a couple of web sites of conservative women who are not gender feminists. How many times do we have to spell it out for you? Can't you handle the truth?

Independent Women's Forum
Concerned Women for America

Here is a Liberterian feminist's web site,
Ifeminist

What political affiliation do you think these two "feminist groups" (below) are?

National Organization for Women

Feminist Majority


Republicans support homosexual lifestyle! (Score:1)
by scudsucker on 01:59 PM June 12th, 2005 EST (#16)
You know that quote from Lincoln about staying silent and be thought a fool, rather than speaking and removing all doubt? You should stay silent.

If the IWF and Concerned Women for America prove that the Republican party has nothing to do with feminists, then the existence of the Log Cabin Republicans proves that the Republican party is all about being gay.

Please, spend five minutes Googling "logic" and find out what it means, because you are sorely missing it.


"...show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence" George W. Bush - Republican 2005

hey Matt! you're an idiot! (Score:1)
by scudsucker on 08:08 PM June 1st, 2005 EST (#6)
Did you bother to listen to the show? Did any of you spastic, hand wringing male-feminazies listen to it? The show is all about changes to the federal fund for crime victums. That's it: crime victums. Not male victums of crime, not female victums of crime, not african-american-samoan victums of crime. There is zero spin from NPR. They get quotes from various officials and the Bush administration, who wants to use the money to pay down the budget defecit.

Some of the people interviewed are from a domestic violence shelter. The people who come in are refered to as "clients", not "helpless women running in terror from our male-privledged patriachial society". The person at the shelter rattles off three examples of people who came in, and yet those examples indeed are all women. But that's IT! Three examples! Not "omg they're taking away our VAWA funding, we'll have to turn away millions of all-important female victums." Here, I'll quote them for you, since you can't be bothered to listen to the show:
  • "I can remember a couple of years ago, we had a female that had been stabbed seven times"
  • "We have had women come in with black eyes, bruises"
  • "Sometimes we have women that are emotionally abused"
This quote from an interviewee, not anyone who works for NPR, takes up about 12 seconds out of a 4:53 segment. To extrapolate that to mean that NPR is loaded with gender feminist bias, when the other 281 seconds use gender neutral terms is ludicrous.

Get a grip, people. Go listen to the show and find a better way to spend your time.


"...show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence" George W. Bush - Republican 2005

Re:hey Matt! you're an idiot! (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 11:43 PM June 1st, 2005 EST (#8)
Yes I listened to the show. Obviously, you didn't, or you weren't comprehending what you heard. When the issue of violence came up the whole thing veered "big time" to women as victims, completely excluding men who are the vast majority of murder victims (about 75%). It was all about how this would negatively affect women's services. It was all concerned about women as vicyims of violence and how service to them would be affected with nary a mention of men who are the majority of violence victims.

Now you come on this site and start throwing around nasty political name calling and grossly misrepresenting what was said. People are sick of your intolerant bigotry, not to mention your audacious misinformation.

You are clearly mentally twisted, sick and really need some professional help to be treating others so abusively. I for one hope you start treating people respectfully as you presently, certainly are a poor representative of civilized male discourse.
Re:hey Matt! you're an idiot! (Score:1)
by scudsucker on 01:50 PM June 12th, 2005 EST (#15)
Yes I listened to the show. Obviously, you didn't, or you weren't comprehending what you heard.

What is "obvious" is that you are off in the twilight zone, and went through some very elaborate contortions to claim "NPR Article Diverts Listener's Attention Away From Majority of Victims", which is absolute nonsense. Which I will prove right now.

The program was 4 minutes and 53 seconds long. During that time, gender neutral terms are the only ones used by NPR and most of the people interviewed, save one.

When the issue of violence came up the whole thing veered "big time" to women as victims

Wrong. Go listen again. The first and only time they mention people of either sex are when they talk to the councelor, who lists off some examples, and then they listen to one of the people staying at the shelter. These are anecdotes. The plural of anecdote is not data. You might as well get pissy over the fact that they didn't explicitly interview carjacking vicutms, so NPR is ignoring carjacking!!!! If the program spent the entire time talking about anecdotes of female vicutms, you'd have a point. But they didn't, so you don't. You have no case whatsoever.

Now you come on this site and start throwing around nasty political name calling and grossly misrepresenting

LOL. The pot is throwing stones THROUGH his glass house at the kettle he is calling black.

You are clearly mentally twisted, sick and really need some professional help to be treating others so abusively. I for one hope you start treating people respectfully

Back off, jackass. Contrary to what you might have been led to believe by years of talk radio, respect is not demanding consideration of your opinions while disparaging others. You need to respect others by not misrepresenting what they have said, as I have proven you have done. You owe NPR an appology. Most of all, you need to respect the men's movement by parking your partisan politics at the door. The activists in the gun rights, anti-abortion and environmental movements are all perfectly happy to work with conservatives or liberals who agree with them, and complain about those who don't. It is only in the men's rights movement that so many people filter everything through party politics before they act.

During the presidential campaign last year, Kerry pandered to women voters, saying the president could learn about hard work from watching them, and threw out the old canard of "76 cents on the dollar". I said I wanted to slap him in the face when he said that. Now, when Bush made the quote in my sig, where were you? Did you post a story castigating Bush for his remarks? Did you post phone numbers and email addresses for his campaign so we could let him know he was off base? Yeah, that's what I thought.


"...show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence" George W. Bush - Republican 2005

Re:hey Matt! you're an idiot! (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 05:31 AM June 2nd, 2005 EST (#11)
Trolllll Alert!
Trolllll Alert!
Trolllll Alert!
Outing the “Liberal Democrats” at NPR (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 06:02 AM June 2nd, 2005 EST (#13)
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, someone over at Men's News Daily MND is name calling again. There's just no telling what those "Privileged Patriarchs" will say next.

"Liberals are loath to admit that in NPR, they have their own government-protected, lavishly supported, politically correct propaganda network created especially for Liberal Democrats. Let’s just let the truth be known."

Outing the “Liberal Democrats” at NPR

"“Liberal Democrat. www.NPR.org . Objective, in-depth & informed political coverage & analysis.”

If you search Google for “Conservative Republican,” however, you will not find any ads for NPR. It is obvious what type of listener NPR really wants to reach. Their political content is clearly biased and leans strongly to the Left.

What is NPR? One online encyclopedia calls National Public Radio a “loosely organized public radio network” that was founded in 1970 (after passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967) and created to broadcast news and cultural programming."

Re:Outing the “Liberal Democrats” at NPR (Score:1)
by scudsucker on 09:38 AM June 2nd, 2005 EST (#14)
Liberals are loath to admit that in NPR, they have their own government-protected, lavishly supported

If by "lavishly supported" he means barely a third, then yes.

If you search Google for “Conservative Republican,” however, you will not find any ads for NPR. It is obvious what type of listener NPR really wants to reach.

Um, right. If they aren't biased towards you, they're biased against you. NPR doesn't run ads catering to any political parties.


"...show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence" George W. Bush - Republican 2005

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