tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post1518905935457622406..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: OMG! Only 45 Shopping Days LeftMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-47911706886781571452009-11-10T18:01:38.160-06:002009-11-10T18:01:38.160-06:00http://revver.com/video/1057435/thinking-drinking-...http://revver.com/video/1057435/thinking-drinking-with-amy-goodman-part-1/<br /><br />Amy Goodman talking about how we must take back the public in public media.geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-17050891599563413732009-11-10T17:46:57.095-06:002009-11-10T17:46:57.095-06:00Couldn't help it, as NoPR McFluff brings out n...Couldn't help it, as NoPR McFluff brings out nothing but the sardonic in me - "...it's a very kind of masculine metal dense in your hand, kind of feel, not curvy like the iPhone" conjured up the notion of the radio peddler fondling his very own Steely Dan. Not the band, mind you, but its original Burroughsian affiliation.beeeg!peeenk!fuuuzy!buuuny!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-33305292786873943502009-11-10T10:16:59.185-06:002009-11-10T10:16:59.185-06:00NPR's Morning Edition is clearly using TV'...NPR's Morning Edition is clearly using TV's happy AM yak shows: Good Morning American, Today, etc. infotainment as their template.<br /><br />To call it superficial second rate journalism, would be overpraise.<br /><br />I guess this is what happens when you become "a mainstream news outlet".<br /><br />Damn I miss Bob.GRUMPY DEMOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076837066633851919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-27298077051394734712009-11-10T09:31:26.667-06:002009-11-10T09:31:26.667-06:00We here hear with ears there on either side of our...We here hear with ears there on either side of our capitated organs.geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-43268388133769320972009-11-10T09:29:58.899-06:002009-11-10T09:29:58.899-06:00Yes, this AM we here that the Poles, the Vietnames...Yes, this AM we here that the Poles, the Vietnamese, the Chinese and the Las Vegese are all happy post-communist consumer capitalist workers and the Copenhagen is some vague futurist non-concern. The NPR universe is a well-oiled pecking-order machine with great lumps of coal in everyone's Santa sock.geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-44993977794350842982009-11-10T08:32:22.773-06:002009-11-10T08:32:22.773-06:00Thanks for the heads-up about Inskeep's promo ...Thanks for the heads-up about Inskeep's promo for "Call of Duty".<br /><br />This is one of the first-person shooters used in the Army Experience Center's "gaming arena" to attract teens as young as 13:<br /><br />http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/first-person-sho0ter/michaelfuryhttp://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/first-person-sho0ter/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-53525537791567831112009-11-10T08:28:28.474-06:002009-11-10T08:28:28.474-06:00This well researched and written article (Paid Lyi...This well researched and written article (<a href="http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/061159-2009-11-09-paid-lying-what-passes-for-major-media-journalism.htm" rel="nofollow">Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism </a>)is very apt, given most of NPR's reporting.<br /><br />"Today's major media deliver propaganda and junk food news"<br /><br />"Most don't know they're getting the same corporate propaganda and "junk food news" or that<br />NPR calls itself "public" to conceal its real agenda, and why critics call it "National Pentagon or Petroleum Radio" with good reason. "<br />"FAIR found that NPR relies on the same dominant sources as the major media that include government officials, professional experts, and corporate representatives nearly two-thirds of the time."<br /><br />// end quotesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-78747605964700355522009-11-10T08:11:56.802-06:002009-11-10T08:11:56.802-06:00Meanwhile, others are reporting on unimportant mat...Meanwhile, others are reporting on unimportant matters:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/143837/10_suicides_a_month_at_ft._hood_--_war_stress_is_taking_soldiers_to_the_brink" rel="nofollow">"10 Suicides a Month at Ft. Hood -- War Stress Is Taking Soldiers to the Brink"</a>(By Dahr Jamail, Asia Times.) <br />"The shooting tragedy at Fort Hood on Friday points to a much larger problem of combat stress and overdeployment in Iraq and Afghanistan."<br /><br />///end quote<br /><br />I'm not sure why anyone would listen to the crap that Vivian Schiller and the Nation Propaganda radio gang air on NPR (other than to criticize it, that is)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-85271605934902716012009-11-10T07:52:31.704-06:002009-11-10T07:52:31.704-06:00This is how an empire dies.
Now, with more Cuddle...This is how an empire dies.<br /><br />Now, with more Cuddle Power!WarOnWarOffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-64693395417032071112009-11-10T07:28:20.616-06:002009-11-10T07:28:20.616-06:00I'd bet this is all Vivian Schiller's doin...I'd bet this is all Vivian Schiller's doing.<br /><br />Since she became CEO, NPR has become "Always on the Money"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com