tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post4867179693367715390..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Q TipsMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-39070389045934104642009-10-30T09:50:01.260-05:002009-10-30T09:50:01.260-05:00In regard to comments from Anonymous at 10/29/09 9...In regard to comments from Anonymous at 10/29/09 9:14 AM and following posts about the deluge of ads on teevee from ANGA and API, I ask:<br /><br />Conspiracy or coincidence?<br /><br />Indoctrination or education?<br /><br />Payola or public service?<br /><br />NPR, serving the military-corporate complex since Newt Gingrich brought them to heel.<br /><br />As George Harrison might say "Isn't it a pity?"RepubLiecanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07884946790670280371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-12191678237587526262009-10-30T08:47:14.605-05:002009-10-30T08:47:14.605-05:00The chimps over at Planet Monkey are still trying ...The chimps over at Planet Monkey are still trying to type that masterpiece, or wash that cat in the sink, or whatever. I am not really sure.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114287968" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is their little screed about GM taking the money and not being able to pay it back.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=10&year=2009&base_name=npr_gets_the_gm_deal_wrong" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is Dean Baker's retort.<br /><br />I have ceased being amazed at how much Planet Monkey can get wrong is such a short space, but then I remember, "They are not human beings!"<br /><br />-JETJuan "Toss" Ensaladahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863718055252256536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-47805039799672539402009-10-30T07:29:40.553-05:002009-10-30T07:29:40.553-05:00This reminds me a lot of NPR.
Unlike NPR's (t...<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/10/podcast_gmacs_hail_mary_pass.html" rel="nofollow">This</a> reminds me a lot of NPR.<br /><br />Unlike NPR's (truely) alternative news competitors (Democracy Now!, Pacifica and web-based news outlets like Alternet, Common Dreams, truthout, etc), NPR (through "payments" from its member stations, who get millions from the federal government) gets a huge amount of government funding and is therefore able to offer lots of stuff that its competitors can't (cushy $300k+ salaries for its CEO and announcers and stupid programs like Planet Money, though I'm sure Democracy Now would never offer anything so dumb as the latter no matter how much money they got!).<br /><br />NPR gets all the benefits of public funding but is NOT required to abide by the restrictions -- eg, ban on propaganda -- because no one is enforcing them.<br /><br />Another similarity:<br /><br />NPR claims to be "non-commercial", but we all know what a joke that is (ads for Natural gas accompanying NPR pieces about fracking anyone?).<br /><br />So, NPR has all the advantages of being "non-profit", but none of the usual restrictions.<br /><br />NPR is a perfect example of an organization run by accountants whose sole purpose is finding loopholes to exploiting government money for all it is worth.<br /><br />If not corrupt, it is certainly unethical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-88132757139252203692009-10-30T05:55:07.160-05:002009-10-30T05:55:07.160-05:00NPR: Always on the moneyNPR: Always on the moneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-11393798085810340872009-10-29T22:10:41.265-05:002009-10-29T22:10:41.265-05:00NPR's motto oughta be, Do you need to 'mak...NPR's motto oughta be, <i>Do you need to 'make it so'? With enough underwriting, we can say it's so and so make it so. NPR, saying so for dough.</i>geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-28740383007666199622009-10-29T17:02:02.441-05:002009-10-29T17:02:02.441-05:00Yes, as anon eloquently queries, what the frack? ...Yes, as anon eloquently queries, what the frack? <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/business/energy-environment/28drill.html?_r=2" rel="nofollow">Gas Company Won’t Drill in New York Watershed </a>? <br /><br>Why the frack not, I wonder? When NPR has so clearly articulated the many and wondrous bounties to be had? Why haven't I heard protesting from the Schillers? Or even reporting?geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-65275116153708439972009-10-29T09:31:12.959-05:002009-10-29T09:31:12.959-05:00NPR? What the Frack?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com...NPR? What the Frack?<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/colorado-oil-and-gas-chie_n_327476.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-15596346350983866102009-10-29T09:29:22.203-05:002009-10-29T09:29:22.203-05:00NPR? What the Frack?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/1...NPR? What the Frack?<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/business/energy-environment/28drill.html?_r=1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-31647018031301025522009-10-29T09:28:53.997-05:002009-10-29T09:28:53.997-05:00NPR? What the Frack?
http://planetgreen.discovery....NPR? What the Frack?<br />http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/split-estate-oil-resign.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-3804614071055218902009-10-29T09:14:36.116-05:002009-10-29T09:14:36.116-05:00Don't know if many of you have noticed, but th...Don't know if many of you have noticed, but the American Natural Gas Alliance and the American Petroleum Institute have been saturation bombing the airwaves with advertisements, disguised as testimonials, pumping the NatGas meme.<br /><br />In one ANGA spot, a geeky-looking little girl is praising the wonders of NatGas while holding a compact fluorescent bulb. Oh the wonder!<br /><br />In an API ad, there is some geeking-looking 20- or 30-somthing talking about how taxes are bad for energy companies and for averages "Joes" just like him.<br /><br />What is astonishing for me is that I have, and liberally use TiVo to skip commercials, yet I have still managed to catch a dozen or so in just the past couple of weeks.<br /><br />The ANGA and the API sure are "educating" all of us, aren't they. America's NEW natural gas is not only super clean, it's good for America because it's anti-tax, setting aside all the subsidies and negative "externalities" we have already paid for it. <br /><br />NPR's new motto should be: "SHOW ME THE MONEY {so we can educate you}!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-6340523045811326962009-10-29T08:53:18.281-05:002009-10-29T08:53:18.281-05:00Planet Monkey, powered by Blogic.
Blogger + Logic ...Planet Monkey, powered by Blogic.<br />Blogger + Logic = Blogic<br /><br />madchen vapidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-89806723465823393712009-10-29T08:49:49.394-05:002009-10-29T08:49:49.394-05:00That's clearly a doctored image (if you will p...<a href="http://media.npr.org/assets/blogs/health/images/2009/10/ghost.jpg?s=3" rel="nofollow">That's clearly a doctored image</a> (if you will pardon the pun).<br /><br />It's obviously supposed to be Little Bo Peep (from the back)<br /><br />Just like in <a href="http://www.beetlebugs.net/shop/images/LittleBoPeep.jpg" rel="nofollow">this image</a>, she's got a crooked staff in her left hand, is wearing a bonnet, a dress with scalloped pleats at the bottom, and there is even a sheep "arched" above her looking to the left, with outstretched front legs.<br /><br />I could produce the same nonsense in about 5 minutes with photoshop.<br /><br />I wonder if the NJM would publish it.<br /><br />My respect for that journal just went WAY down (NPR lost no respect because they had none to lose)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-83066696521641481082009-10-29T08:34:08.437-05:002009-10-29T08:34:08.437-05:00Anon,
Re: Planet Monkey
I have noticed, and note...Anon,<br /><br />Re: Planet Monkey<br /><br />I have noticed, and noted on the NPR Blog, Ms. Conaway's construct many times. Here is what I posted today.<br /><br />+++<br /><br />OMG! This Planet Money shtick is so tiresome! Here is what passes for news on the PM Blog when they title there stories:<br /><br />1. Fact 1<br />2. Fact 2<br />3. Summary or Conclusion: What up with THAT?<br /><br />Case in point: Market Rises, Confidence Falls. Now What?<br /><br />1. Fact 1: Market Rises<br />2. Fact 2: Confidence Falls.<br />3. Summary or Conclusion: Now What?<br /><br />Ms. Conaway is particularly susceptible to this construct. With it she attempts, I suppose, to insinuate or show some sort of relationship between Fact 1 and Fact 2. What she reveals, with respect to news, is usually nothing. What she reveals with her construct is that she doesn't really understand economics, and if she actually does, she doesn't know how to explain it. Thus, she shows an ineptitude with both economics and journalism.<br /><br />But nobody can argue that she's sure developed that unenlightening blogger technique.<br /><br />What's up with THAT!<br /><br />madchen vapidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-7703751399663209492009-10-29T08:33:32.504-05:002009-10-29T08:33:32.504-05:00I thought it said "NPR Health Blog" [sic...I thought it said "NPR Health Blog" [sick], but I <i>must</i> have been mistaken...<br /><br />I must have stumbled upon Ripley's Believe or NOT!<br /><br />or perhaps a site documenting Virgin Mary sightings<br /><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/10/ghost_in_the_brain_an_appariti.html" rel="nofollow">Ghost In The Brain: An 'Apparition Hemorrhage</a><br /><br />What utter rubbish.<br /><br />It's hard to say which is worse: that they publish such crap in the New England Journal of Medicine, or that NPR propagates the nonsense (to appeal to all their evangelical listeners?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-81425690456251719632009-10-29T06:43:06.716-05:002009-10-29T06:43:06.716-05:00The planet Monkeys are still spouting gibberish:
...The planet Monkeys are still spouting gibberish:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/10/market_rises_confidence_falls.html" rel="nofollow">Market Rises, Confidence Falls. Now What?</a><br /><br /><br />Consumer confidence fell in October, the Conference Board reports. This was the month the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 10,000 mark again, and yet this rally hasn't had the usual effect."<br /><br />What Laura Begoneaway (Don's sister) does not seem to understand is that while the Consumer confidence index can (and does) impact the Dow, the converse is not true.<br /><br />Most people do not base their economic confidence on the level of the stock market.<br /><br />They base it on things that affect them directly -- like whether they have a job and whether they are worried about losing that job.<br /><br />The idea that we should somehow be "surprised" (as Conaway is) that Consumer confidence is down despite the fact that the Dow was up (even over 10,000 briefly) is just nonsense.<br /><br />The only thing surpising to me is that someone who is as clueless about economics as Laura Conaway can be hosting a program on National radio that purports to be about economics.<br /><br />her "Market Rises, Confidence Falls. Now what?" is just garbage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-49611336825706765602009-10-28T13:39:46.900-05:002009-10-28T13:39:46.900-05:00I just noticed the relevant link to William Black&...I just noticed the relevant link to William Black's comments above is broken.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/04/william_k_black_on_the_prompt.html" rel="nofollow">Here it is</a>.<br /><br />NPR is not only lying, but Obama et al have actually BROKEN the law in failing to put the failing banks into receivership.<br />Here's the relevant text, as well:<br /><br /> WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, certainly in the financial sphere, I am. I think, first, the policies are substantively bad. Second, I think they completely lack integrity. Third, they violate the rule of law. This is being done just like Secretary Paulson did it. In violation of the law. We adopted a law after the Savings and Loan crisis, called the Prompt Corrective Action Law. And it requires them to close these institutions. And they're refusing to obey the law.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: In other words, they could have closed these banks without nationalizing them?<br /><br />WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, you do a receivership. No one -- Ronald Reagan did receiverships. Nobody called it nationalization.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: And that's a law?<br /><br />WILLIAM K. BLACK: That's the law.<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: So, Paulson could have done this? Geithner could do this?<br /><br />WILLIAM K. BLACK: Not could. Was mandated-<br /><br />BILL MOYERS: By the law.<br /><br />WILLIAM K. BLACK: By the law.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-43037702783264862432009-10-28T11:10:00.721-05:002009-10-28T11:10:00.721-05:00I have heard only 2 things about National Swine fl...I have heard only 2 things about National Swine flu emergency announcement (the announcement itself and that it was like "preparing for an hurricane") so I looked it up. Might interest us to know what it means since NPR only talks about fake cures/swine flu parties.<br /><br />edkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-50538903446785729922009-10-28T10:43:43.778-05:002009-10-28T10:43:43.778-05:00NPR is part of the same criminal conspiracy. They ...NPR is part of the same criminal conspiracy. They missed the bubble, and now they are playing propaganda to cover it up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-50690292910483935662009-10-28T10:02:50.075-05:002009-10-28T10:02:50.075-05:00Morning Edition introduced a piece that reported o...<i>Morning Edition introduced a piece that reported on the House Financial Services Committee plans to deal with too big to fail banks by telling listeners that we had a choice last fall between allowing huge financial institutions to fail, with substantial risks to the economy, or give them hundreds of billions of dollars to keep them afloat."</i><br /><br />That's an outright lie. If the NPR announcer really claimed that, he/she should be fired AND Vivian Schiller should be fired as CEO.<br /><br />Such LIES are not only disgusting, but they are ILLEGAL. Congress has banned the use of public money for propaganda.<br /><br />The banks could have -- SHOULD HAVE, BY LAW! -- been put into receivership like the failed S&L's were back in the late 80's.<br /><br />Such receivership probably would have involved firing many of the people heading up the banks -- ie, the people who implemented the policies that led to failure.<br /><br />Such receivership is precisely what people like former S&L fraud expert/investigator William Black were calling for. Indeed, he pointed out that receivership is <a rel="nofollow">mandated by law in such cases.<br /> </a><br />receivership would have involved keeping very good track of where public dollars were going and whether they were having the intended affect (increased lending).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-45719290642708578342009-10-28T09:51:43.937-05:002009-10-28T09:51:43.937-05:0011:00 Anne Heller: "Ayn Rand and the World Sh...<i>11:00 Anne Heller: "Ayn Rand and the World She Made" </i><br /><br />Wouldn't that be more aptly titled "Ayn Rand and the bed she made?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-44974466135400163002009-10-28T09:47:19.516-05:002009-10-28T09:47:19.516-05:00NPR Keeps the Economic Choices on the Banks Narrow...NPR Keeps the Economic Choices on the Banks Narrow<br /><br />Morning Edition introduced a piece that reported on the House Financial Services Committee plans to deal with too big to fail banks by telling listeners that we had a choice last fall between allowing huge financial institutions to fail, with substantial risks to the economy, or give them hundreds of billions of dollars to keep them afloat. <br /><br />This is not true, we could have given them money and totally transformed them by slashing pay for their executives (push into the six figures, from seven and eight figures) and change the way they do business. We could have ended many of the speculative practices of these firms and make them more boring. This option was generally ignored by the media at the time and it is still largely being ignored.<br /><br />The piece itself forget to mention that the regulators failed to see the housing bubble. In making plans for new and complex regulatory structures, it is important to remember that our team of regulators all claimed to believe that nationwide house prices could not fall. If this was actually true, then banks were not taking excessive risks and the regulators acted properly. The problem was not the lack of the right regulatory agencies, the problem was the failure of regulators to correctly understand the economy. <br /><br />NPR did not discuss the housing bubble at the time and it is still not accurately presenting the crisis caused by its collapse to its listeners.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-71251542179008869302009-10-28T09:46:38.084-05:002009-10-28T09:46:38.084-05:00http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_...http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=10&year=2009&base_name=npr_keeps_the_economic_choicesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-9156290371324712242009-10-28T09:45:13.561-05:002009-10-28T09:45:13.561-05:00Dean Baker nails NPR again.
http://www.prospect.o...Dean Baker nails NPR again.<br /><br />http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=10&year=2009&base_name=npr_keeps_the_economic_choicesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-3921128448447743382009-10-28T08:23:41.842-05:002009-10-28T08:23:41.842-05:00The Diane Rehm is busily doing its part to keep th...The Diane Rehm is busily doing its part to keep the DC yacking class employed.<br /><br />While conservatives in Congress are hurriedly trying to re-inflate the housing bubble, DR Show Guest Host Frank Sesno, is doing his best to re-inflate the GOPer bubble.<br /><br />NPR: Fair and Balanced.<br /><br />http://wamu.org/programs/dr/<br /><br />10:00 State of the G.O.P.<br /><br />Guest host: Frank Sesno<br /><br />Conservatives gaining ground. A new poll finds independents are moving to the right. How this trend might play out in political contests across the country and implications for the Republican Party.<br />Guests<br /><br />David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and managing associate with Carmen Group, a D.C.-based governmental-affairs firm<br /><br />Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of the "Cook Political Report"<br /><br />Mickey Edwards, lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School; former Republican Congressman from Oklahoma (1977-1993)<br /><br />11:00 Anne Heller: "Ayn Rand and the World She Made" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)<br /><br />Guest host: Frank Sesno<br /><br />A new biography of the Russian-born philosopher whose mid-20th century novels, "Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged", extol the virtues of individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism and still spark debate today.<br />Guests<br /><br />Anne Heller, A magazine editor and journalistJuan "Toss" Ensaladahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863718055252256536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-64732095496113210362009-10-28T08:00:42.474-05:002009-10-28T08:00:42.474-05:00Democracy Now!'s Any Goodman puts the phony jo...<a href="http://www.truthout.org/1027098" rel="nofollow">Democracy Now!'s Any Goodman puts the phony journalists at NPR (ie, pretty much everyone) to shame.</a><br /><br />I realize there are probably not many reading this who do, but to anyone who still gives to NPR I would suggest asking yourself what are you getting for your money? and might I get more from DN for the same contribution? <br /><br />I think the answer to the second question should be obvious.<br /><br />With a contribution to NPR you are basically paying the high (six figure) salaries of Vivian Schiller, Steve Inskeep, Meeeeeeshell Norris, Scott Simon and Alicia Shepard (that's right, NPR's ombudsman gets $150k per year to make excuses about why NPR can not say "torture" and write other drivel on her NPR blog page)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com