tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post1985285826288494188..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Q TipsMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-13363555354010487492010-01-01T16:20:35.963-06:002010-01-01T16:20:35.963-06:00Our ombudsman got on Daniel Zwerdling's case f...Our ombudsman got on Daniel Zwerdling's case for not discovering that the person he was interviewing had criminal convictions in her past. Apparently, word didn't reach Jim Zarolli when he did his piece cheerleading people into investing in the stock market.<br /><br />I left the following at the ombudsman's blog:<br /><br />I guess Mr. Zwerdling's not researching Ms. Bagley's past only applies to this story.<br /><br />Jim Zarolli did a piece on the stock market and used Henry Kaufman as a source and identified him as a Professor and economist, intimating he is an academic.<br /><br />Mr. Kaufman is apparently president of Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc., a firm specializing in economic and financial consulting according to Forbes.<br /><br />And, according to Wikipedia, "he was on the Board of Directors of the now defunct Lehman Brothers where he served as chairman of the Finance and Risk Committee prior to the firm's bankruptcy. On March 19, 2009, Kaufman was named as a defendant in a lawsuit launched by New Jersey governor Jon Corzine on behalf of the state of New Jersey alleging fraud and misrepresentation associated with securities offerings undertaken by Lehman Brothers immediately prior to the firm's bankruptcy."<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=122102292Nate Bowmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-72748315380672143862009-12-31T20:37:52.936-06:002009-12-31T20:37:52.936-06:00Graceful anon, the link worked fine; yes that'...Graceful anon, the link worked fine; yes that's what I was referring to, the Gopinator linked to it about half a year ago. May you all have finely-tuned bullshit filters for the next decade!larry, dfhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-41367775366984856522009-12-31T20:34:29.301-06:002009-12-31T20:34:29.301-06:00Graceful anon, the link worked fine; yes that'...Graceful anon, the link worked fine; yes that's what I was referring to, the Gopinator linked to it about half a year ago. May you all have finely-tuned bullshit filters for the next decade!larry, dfhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-49490908181622305512009-12-31T19:29:24.791-06:002009-12-31T19:29:24.791-06:00One good fup deserves another - watch at your peri...One good fup deserves another - watch at your peril: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gplYhBUJY&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">Bush Lives in You</a>gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-48563494479053874052009-12-31T19:07:01.678-06:002009-12-31T19:07:01.678-06:00I f'd that link up!
It was our dear and valued...I f'd that link up!<br />It was our dear and valued (lol) Ombudsman's role in Gary Webb blackballing.<br />I'll find accurate link!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-18160690603872333032009-12-31T19:06:04.699-06:002009-12-31T19:06:04.699-06:00Bush Lives in You and on PBS, thanks to Chevron, M...<a rel="nofollow">Bush Lives in You</a> and on PBS, thanks to Chevron, Monsanto, ADM, Dow and Boeing.gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-68211777193416114432009-12-31T19:01:03.132-06:002009-12-31T19:01:03.132-06:00Yes, Alicia a minder!!
Have you read this?
www.cou...Yes, Alicia a minder!!<br />Have you read this?<br />www.counterpunch.org/webb212172004.html - Cached -<br />I hope this is correct link.<br /><br />I think Grumpy linked this some time ago.<br /><br />Cheers! GraceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-62924519267509125972009-12-31T18:36:28.013-06:002009-12-31T18:36:28.013-06:00Larry dfh
That is horrifying!!
http://www.commondr...Larry dfh<br />That is horrifying!!<br />http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/23-0<br />Moyers to Bush .. nfw<br /><br />Grumpy, Happy New Year!<br />You will have to be reborn if they don't allow you back!<br /><br />Madchen, ditto on Cassel!!<br /><br />Happy New Year All and here's hoping edk finds those DoD earmarks for domestic media....we all know they are there...as well as at State Dept!!!<br />GraceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-87211401297824812412009-12-31T18:33:49.052-06:002009-12-31T18:33:49.052-06:00So that makes alicia his 'minder'?So that makes alicia his 'minder'?larry, dfhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-6748702512686291832009-12-31T15:52:19.933-06:002009-12-31T15:52:19.933-06:00Ugh. That's "leaking a copy" not &q...Ugh. That's "leaking a copy" not "leading a copy"gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-35120941163469769212009-12-31T15:50:55.971-06:002009-12-31T15:50:55.971-06:00The Curious Case of Daniel Schorr's Career
I&#...<b>The Curious Case of Daniel Schorr's Career</b><br /><br>I've come across several references to Schorr recently I thought I'd run by y'all.<br /><br>First, in reading <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CwijfdYbkC0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=dark+alliance&client=firefox-a&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow">Dark Alliance</a> (finally getting through the last chapter) where on page 442 (missing from the Google book?) you'll find the following:<br /><br><i>CBS newsman Daniel Schorr was demonized by the CIA and conservative commentators for leading a copy of a secret Congressional report of CIA abuses to the Village Voice in 1976, after CBS had declined to make it public. Eventually, Schorr was dumped by the network and virtually blackballed. A decade later, a similar fate befell Robert Parry and Brian Barger of the Associated Press after they broke several stories on Contra involvement with drug trafficking and Ollie North's secret resupply operation. In both case, the mainstream journalistic community uttered barely a peep of protest.</i><br /><br>Apparently, if you apologize enough for honest investigative reporting and promise fealty to the Agency, they'll let you spread disinformation for them. It may actually increase your value as an asset when you sell out. <br /><br>Robert Parry, on the other hand, has not sold out and continues to scrape by on the fringes at consortiumnews.com, where his partner, Ray McGovern, a 27-year veteran of the Agency himself, recently penned a pair of pieces including the curious Schorr quote below:<a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/122909b.html" rel="nofollow">Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA?</a> where we read the following about Schorr:<br /><br><i> Additional detail came from a March 2001 conference on the Bay of Pigs, which included CIA operatives, retired military commanders, scholars and journalists. Daniel Schorr told National Public Radio that he had gained one new perception as a result of the “many hours of talk and heaps of declassified secret documents”:<br /><br />“It was that the CIA overlords of the invasion, Director Allen Dulles and Deputy Richard Bissell, had their own plan on how to bring the United States into the conflict.… What they expected was that the invaders would establish a beachhead … and appeal for aid from the United States. …<br /><br />“The assumption was that President Kennedy, who had emphatically banned direct American involvement, would be forced by public opinion to come to the aid of the returning patriots. American forces, probably Marines, would come in to expand the beachhead.<br /><br />“In fact, President Kennedy was the target of a CIA covert operation that collapsed when the invasion collapsed.”</i><br /><br>So, curious! In his <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120612056" rel="nofollow">StoryCorps piece</a> there's this revealing exchange with his son:<br /><br><i>Mr. JONATHAN SCHORR: So the thing that's fascinating is that you would think that the results of that would be that you would be really concerned about keeping your job.<br /><br />SCHORR: And I am.</i>gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-29521463458320461692009-12-31T15:06:30.846-06:002009-12-31T15:06:30.846-06:00Well, I guess some of the little elves got coal fo...Well, I guess some of the little elves got coal for X-mas: From <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/" rel="nofollow">Democracy Now!</a> <br /> <b>"EPA Criticizes New York State Plan for Natural Gas Drilling</b><br /><br />And the federal Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it has major concerns about New York State’s plan to allow hydraulic drilling for natural gas in upstate New York in the Marcellus Shale watershed. The EPA said it was particularly concerned about how the drilling will affect the regional water supply and air quality. The EPA’s comments come one week after New York City environmental officials demanded that the state reverse its decision to allow natural gas drilling upstate because chemicals used in the drilling process could contaminate the city’s water supply." <br />Those naughty little elves apparently couldn't loll everybody to sleep. Add anga to the lengthening list of corrupt assholes with which npr chooses to 'do business'.larry, dfhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-61376032488828674942009-12-31T14:34:40.649-06:002009-12-31T14:34:40.649-06:00Who was that madman with the alarming story about ...Who was that madman with the alarming story about the Afghan war spreading through Central Asia, who even called the concern "a modern domino theory" without for a second realizing how that undercut his whole premise?<br /><br />Why it could only be the very special Tom Gjelten, of course!<br /><br />(Hint, Tom: though we wasted lives and dollars, we didn't stop the Communists in Vietnam, but the swath of countries between there and Australia never turned red. Hunh. Think about it.)biggerboxhttp://nosmallplans.com/rants/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-28332852442898892702009-12-31T11:00:42.737-06:002009-12-31T11:00:42.737-06:00Liked that I didn't have to log-on or create a...Liked that I didn't have to log-on or create an account to take that survey - when asked how I listen to WESat or WESun, I replied with complete honesty "nprcheck.blogspot.com". How refreshing to provide input as a lapsed, displaced, disaffected listener.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.nprsurveys.org/se.ashx?s=01D9796E5CE4258C" rel="nofollow"><br>Weekend Mornin' McNuth'n</a><br /><br />Go 'head - tell 'em "The Check" sent ya~b$p$f$b$noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-44066813641664542232009-12-31T09:38:53.634-06:002009-12-31T09:38:53.634-06:00On ME today: "Charitable Giving Down In 2009&...On ME today: "Charitable Giving Down In 2009"<br /><br />But, NPR made up for it by (a) laying off employees and cutting benefits, (b) taking payola from their corporate overloads (ANGA), and (c) sucking up more tax dollars recycled through Ally Bank.<br /><br />NPR corporate bureaucracy meets public bureaucracy. How are they any differet than the banksters? They missed the housing bubble, the global economic crisis, and in the end, they are feeding from the government teat?<br /><br />m/mAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-76903892116336029582009-12-31T09:05:45.009-06:002009-12-31T09:05:45.009-06:00When (and how) will GrumpyDemo return? I like his ...When (and how) will GrumpyDemo return? I like his banker pov when it comes to taking on Inscreep and DWeeb (David Wessel).<br /><br />m/mAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-42032675633520274522009-12-31T09:01:25.811-06:002009-12-31T09:01:25.811-06:00BoulderDude,
I move to Phoenix in January. Thanks...BoulderDude,<br /><br />I move to Phoenix in January. Thanks for asking.<br /><br />m/mAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-58166147039435791632009-12-31T08:58:58.445-06:002009-12-31T08:58:58.445-06:00Hehe, well good to know that Nate and I had the ri...Hehe, well good to know that Nate and I had the right feeling about Madchen/Mara being one in the same. :)<br /><br />Yeppers, there was a lot of things to smack around today, it's going to be a big job.<br /><br />Are you moved in yet?Boulder Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12302667693965940615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-67988160764568572932009-12-31T08:40:41.344-06:002009-12-31T08:40:41.344-06:00The NPR Technique
Economy is 1/2 Full
"Frag...<b>The NPR Technique</b><br /><br /><b>Economy is 1/2 Full</b><br /><br />"Fragile Recovery On The Horizon For Housing"<br /><br />"Jobless Factory Worker Trains For Office Work"<br /><br /><b>Politics is 1/2 Empty</b><br /><br />"Economy Casts Pall On Administration's Goals"<br /><br />madchen/maraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-36513579892978097092009-12-31T08:33:32.490-06:002009-12-31T08:33:32.490-06:00Economists Who Understand the Economy Are Not Hope...Economists Who Understand the Economy Are Not Hopeful that the Economy Created Jobs in December<br /><br />Morning Edition had a segment this morning interviewing David Wessel, the Wall Street Journal's economics editor, about the state of the economy. At one point Wessel told listeners that economists are hopeful that the December employment report, which will be released next month, will show that the economy added jobs in the month.<br /><br />Actually, there is little reason for this hope. Weekly unemployment claims have averaged well over 460,000 in the four weeks between the November and December surveys. The economy generally will not be adding jobs if claims are over 400,000 per week. Given the current rate of unemployment claims, it is very unlikely that the economy actually added jobs in December.<br /><br />--Dean BakerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-20348338536019100422009-12-31T08:30:26.226-06:002009-12-31T08:30:26.226-06:00Steve Inskeep to David Wessel: "The stock mar...Steve Inskeep to David Wessel: "The stock market recovered in 2009, can the rest of the economy be far behind?"<br /><br />And, so it goes...<br /><br />madchen/maraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-25120859421928085972009-12-31T08:27:25.093-06:002009-12-31T08:27:25.093-06:00"Fragile Recovery On The Horizon For Housing,..."Fragile Recovery On The Horizon For Housing," on Morning Edition today.<br /><br />Glass nearly empty, but NPR acts as if it is half full. Has NPR seen recent Case Shiller data?<br /><br />And, so it goes...<br /><br />madchen/maraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-37238139039502318412009-12-31T08:23:38.876-06:002009-12-31T08:23:38.876-06:00John Ridley snarks away on NPR's Morning Editi...John Ridley snarks away on NPR's Morning Edition page today. Triumph of the banal over ego, or just the opposite? NPR reports; you decide.<br /><br />madchen/maraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-61195736636100788722009-12-31T08:18:42.517-06:002009-12-31T08:18:42.517-06:00Steve Inskeep and David Wessel are telling us how ...Steve Inskeep and David Wessel are telling us how great the economy is at the end of the year; that we recovered from the 2nd Great Depression -- The Wall Street economy, that is.<br /><br />And, so it goes...<br /><br />madchen/maraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-83501764963871502392009-12-31T08:17:21.130-06:002009-12-31T08:17:21.130-06:00Tom Gjelten is applying the domino theory to Centr...Tom Gjelten is applying the domino theory to Central Asia on Morning Edition today.<br /><br />And so it goes...<br /><br />Madchen/MaraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com