I'm listening to npr talk about the 'deference of Japanese reporters

[ellenrr]

to power'

Gee,
you never find that in this country.

:sarcasm:

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. That station doesn't come in here, please tell us more details.

nt

[ellenrr]

4. when you say more details -

you mean about npr?
Known as national pentagon radio, or national propaganda radio,

oh how they love the military. They love to talk about new weapons, report back from the field.

A good site about npr-
http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/
"Tracking right-wing, pro-government, and corporate bias on NPR news."

here is today's blog:

With the cruise missile attacks and subsequent airstrikes in Libya, the US is now in it's third active war in a Muslim country (and second in a oil rich nation) and I listened to all of NPR's programming from Saturday's All Things Considered - which was packaged as "special coverage of the military situation in Libya" - and then Sunday morning's Weekend Edition.


It's truly astounding that we live in a country where the engagement in war is strictly prescribed by our Constitution to our House of Representatives. Glenn Greenwald has an excellent summary of how the US participation in the war on Libya defies any adherence to the Constitutional constraints on war-making powers of the President. It seems that some liberal Democratic Representatives are also angered at the dismissal of Constitutional concerns by our Constitutional Professor in Chief. But not NPR. You can listen to all the coverage in these important NPR news shows covering the beginnings of the war in Libya and never hear one word about the Constitutional issues raised by US military action in Libya. This is especially striking since on All Things Considered, Tom Bowman made a point of noting that War Secretary Gates made it very clear that this action in Libya "meant going to war."


The Constitutional issues are one point that any thinking US citizen should wonder about regarding the war in Libya. Another obvious question would be the rather gross hypocrisy of launching military action to "protect civilians" when the US is massively arming Saudi Arabia, one of the most radically repressive fundamentalist Islamic states in the region - a state that has helped murder unarmed protesters in its occupation of Bahrain.


To find any alternative views on the supposed "humanitarian" view of US warmaking in Libya, you'll have to go to The Independent, Chris Floyd, Common Dreams, or Al Jazeera - but if you want the Pentagon/White House presentation of this latest US military action then stick with NPR...you won't be disappointed.

[OHdem10]

2. The Pot calling the kettle black. Especially our Television Media

They are as deferential as the Japanese. Culturally
the Japanese are a very civil culture(at least in public).
Their civility creates the image of giving into power.
Our culture is a more blustery one, but the framing
the favoring of one political party over another is
really no different.

[ellenrr]

3. According to the report

the deference of the Janpanese reporters was not cultural, but was bec. if they are not deferential, they don't get access anymore.
Hey where have I heard that before?

[malaise]

5. Guess that's why we saw so much of the Wisconsin

protests on M$Greedia; guess that's why there has been no objective discussion on so called heralded values and rights such as the right to join trade unions.

No deference at home at all - they love freedom and democracy