tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post3638497765203972319..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: In the MainstreamMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-28518546330269448092010-02-14T10:58:49.199-06:002010-02-14T10:58:49.199-06:00N P R...
You can't spell R e P u b l i c a N ...N P R...<br /><br />You can't spell <b>R</b> e <b>P</b> u b l i c a <b>N</b> without it...Woody (Tokin Librul/Rogue Scholar/ Helluvafella!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09205896988142798901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-66137032648075975462010-02-14T09:20:10.856-06:002010-02-14T09:20:10.856-06:00Whatever happened to just reporting the news? Wha...Whatever happened to just reporting the news? What has happened in this celebrity obsessed culture is that journalists are now public personalities and those that have catapulted to stardom want to keep their status. Maintaining that status is dependent on ‘playing ball with the big boys’. At the end of last August, Steve Innskeep was interviewing Michael Steele, the Republican chair, and contrary to the typically rehearsed Morning Edition interview promoting the Republican agenda, Steve asked some hard hitting questions. However, coincidentally or as punishment, Steve was on vacation for the next week or so, and now he’s back to his usual deferential interviews with the right. <br />I have heard people say that bringing in people to comment on an issue like so many media outlets do is the lazy way of reporting. If they didn’t, it would be difficult to milk the commercial aspect. The roots for mainstream news spring from commercial interests which preclude the chance for a free press because of self-censorship. The irony is, until the Internet and forums like this, the major outlet for creating a national dialogue was television. Sadly, I don’t think the Internet will significantly galvanize enough of the population to preempt the U.S. oligarchy.Dinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00336935284234101319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-3296882939676509272010-02-13T21:21:54.309-06:002010-02-13T21:21:54.309-06:00MM
Well thought out, well put together and well w...MM<br /><br />Well thought out, well put together and well written. Thank you.<br /><br />goopDoggy<br />I rather think he is the ombudsman's ombudsman (Officer Ombie?)Nate Bowmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-16252863085608855362010-02-13T16:15:07.838-06:002010-02-13T16:15:07.838-06:00Har. Alicia looked at all that garbage the MSM ha...Har. Alicia looked at all that garbage the MSM has dumped on America and decided, rather than picking theirs up, she'd add hers to the pile. So MTW is in the role of <a href="http://www.arlo.net/obie.shtml" rel="nofollow">Officer Obie</a>? That's quite a twist - I love it! <br /><br>Truly, MTW heeds the advice of <a href="http://kjv.us/colossians/4.htm" rel="nofollow">Collosians 4:5</a> to <i>Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.</i><br /><br>The Code of Ethics is a perfect wedge between NPR pious claims and the perverse contrary behavior of their "reporters" and ombudsman/NPR advocate. For instance, <br /><br><i>16. The grant of anonymity should be a last resort.</i><br /><br>Clearly the attributions to "some" and "many" and "Pentagon spokespersons" are not anonymous! And I'm a hippopotamus!gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-47529819490441829732010-02-13T15:38:51.156-06:002010-02-13T15:38:51.156-06:00You can listen to NPR and you can get everything.....You can listen to NPR and you can get everything..."<br /><br />reminds me a of a song:<br /><br /><br />"You can get anything you want, at Alicia's Radio"<br />"You can get anything you want, at Alicia's Radio (excepting accuracy)"<br />Walk right in, ('long as you ain't black)<br />Ask for truth, and you won't get jack<br />But You can get anything you want at Alicia's RadioAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com