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August 17, 2006
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Funny, the last three out of four times I have turned NPR on while in the car, I turned it right back off, after disgustingly concluding that what I was listening to were not “News reports” but covert commercials for various products, and Ideologies.
How Public is Public Radio?
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Aug 17 2006 11:14 utc | 1
Now, I ask you, what is the Irony of finding this out in a CBC online news site?
FCC probes ‘fake news’ at U.S. TV stations
Also see, More news but less depth in US media: study
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Aug 17 2006 12:20 utc | 2
Also, before anyone has a hissy fit, sure it’s been reported here but to what depth, did they mention Free Press and the Center for Media and Democracy filed the initial complaint, or give indication as to who received its letters? Or a hundred other investigative journalist questions as to solving the dilema? See, my second link above…
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Aug 17 2006 12:53 utc | 3
I favor the dismantling of Public Radio. The lies they transmit are far more pernicious than Rush and his ilk because they are directed, quite successfully, at the educated co-ordinator class of society.
For some other thread, which I can’t find at the moment:
When Bush talks, he isn’t being an idiot as even people on this blog are so wont to say. He is talking to his base — the 35% of the population who are completely clueless and live in a total fantasy reality — as well as the additional 15-20% who are marginally clueless. When 50% of the population believes that Iraq had WMD, you have to work continually to revalidate their ignorance and buy-in to a simplistic, fantasy, good vs bad narrative. Bush may actually be an idiot, but his idiotic speeches are carefully crafted. Just like Amadinejad. Face it, he has more people believing him than Reagan had. Give the guy credit for his successful prevaricating and deal with it.
Posted by: Malooga | Aug 18 2006 1:15 utc | 4
Bush is like the sales guy who doesn’t know jack s. about the product he is selling but who knows how to convince a fool that he is their buddy, the best thing since sliced bread. The worshipful fool and his money are soon….
Problem is the same type of jerk sales guy fills the other political party too. They don’t know jack s. about the product they are selling either. Plus they don’t know how to sell. But their particular fools hand over the money anyway, out of pity and guilt for wasting the bad sales guy’s time, and happiness of believing they are being helpful. These are the NPR donor types.
Posted by: gylangirl | Aug 18 2006 22:16 utc | 5
This week I was listening to NPR in the morning.
The anchor was trying to do a war story on public opinion or the general consensus in Iraq by interviewing a reporter in Baghdad who said that she never left her hotel but watched TV news broadcasts there to get the sense of what was being felt.
It was a Jon Stewart moment for me.
Posted by: gylangirl | Aug 18 2006 22:36 utc | 6