NPR - Doing its part for the Bush team!

[sally343434]

So here we are, listening to Weekend Edition Sunday with Linda Wertheimer filling in for Liane Hansen as host.

Let's see how they cover the three biggest stories of the week.

1. California and its sexual predator gubernatorial candidate.

Here we get to listen to a stenographer's account of Arnold's campaign. They visit one of Arnold's campaign stops in Fresno, play snippets of his "speech," and then just open the microphone for the republicans in the audience to say how "change is good" without any mention of Arnold's various "problems." And then, it's a wrap!

2. David Kay and his "report."

Here we have NPR doing its usual MO: two people reading prepared scripts to each other masquerading as an interview. Kay trots out his over-used talking point (decades, billions, hiding) immediately after admitting Iraq has no unconventional weapons. And he also uses the same weasel angle when confronted with this admission that linking no weapons to no threat is purely a "political judgment," and not his to make. True to form, Wertheimer does no follow up or challenging of these two points. I'm sure Rove will toast Wertheimer at their next cocktail party in Washington.

3. Treason in the white house.

Beyond casual one or two-sentence references as leadin to Kay's charade above and Schorr's commentary, I didn't hear ANYTHING on this scandal at all!


Since it's October fund-raising time for NPR, I guess they just want to take the lazy way and line up, hat in hand, for their corporate payoff.

Utterly disgusting.

[E_Zapata]

1. I get reamed when I say: -you're listening to that faux fox stuff?-

NPR is golden - blah blah blah

If the liberals don't wise up (and quick) all will be lost.

The lack of an ability (or desire) for critical thinking amongst americans across the entire political spectrum kind of tells me that perhaps it is time for our 'kind' to be eradicated. Survival of the fittest kind of thing.

[pretzel4gore]

2. the bald faced lies!

it's staggering the deceit some news organization neocons promote: even the CBC(!) had a program with '5 question's about politics' in which one answer was "the electoral college gives advantage in some cases, but it had no role in bush election cuz bush beat gore by 'such a huge margin!'" !! this on CBC sat morning show aimed at younger people.....(btw the show got worse but obviously even the producers knew they were lying)
didya hear about Rep. Kip Bond's aide who had website that used the tail number from the Carnahan crash airplane as its title? (haha) mygod...
that's the mentality, and some dems/libs wanna be 'above' the dirty dealings...i guess going to heaven after grim reaper does his reaping is sufficently 'above' it all to justify pretending that it helps here in world o mortality(?)!

[rucky]

3. But...but...

they did such a great feature on food allergies the other day



:eyes:

[Kolesar]

4. NPR presented a one-sided story in the lead up to the war

They were not as bad as the TV and Cable networks, but they failed to report the known truths and aided in "misleading" Americans (as Al Gore said about the administration in his NYU speech).

NPR used to do "driveway stories" that listeners would listen to in their cars before getting out. Now, I have to turn the damn network off while I am driving because I cannot stand their coverage.

(Hey, I think I just found the thesis for a great letter to my NPR affiliate during pledge week! I am a member of that station.)