tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post7657017853680015532..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Q TipsMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-53184308818235687002010-12-11T15:26:54.775-06:002010-12-11T15:26:54.775-06:00The third, if you count Hillary. :)The third, if you count Hillary. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-37183437781275352452010-12-11T13:23:19.920-06:002010-12-11T13:23:19.920-06:00So Inskeep has interviewed Obama on the tax deal a...So Inskeep has interviewed Obama on the tax deal and the payroll tax holiday opens the way for a Social Security fight down the line. <a href="http://www.progressiveblue.com/diary/5877/what-is-president-obama-talking-about" rel="nofollow">Ain't it grand?</a>The Boss of Youhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597266775692604529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-89511033775422319162010-12-11T09:14:01.057-06:002010-12-11T09:14:01.057-06:00Obama: The second Black, moderate, Republican to ...Obama: The second Black, moderate, Republican to be in the WH in 18 years! And NPR is doing its' part - send money!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-11379022713076559522010-12-10T16:18:49.029-06:002010-12-10T16:18:49.029-06:00What I find sickening in recent Obama speeches is ...What I find sickening in recent Obama speeches is the way he talks to his base like we are a bunch of children who should just suck it up and shut up when he does the opposite of what he promised in his campaign.<br /><br />Obama seems to have far more patience for the Republicans who are holding him captive (and ultimately out to destroy his Presidency) than he does for the people who put him in office (who would "dare" criticize his about-faces on the extension of tax cuts for the rich, government secrecy, civil liberties or anything else)<br /><br />It's bizarre -- almost Stockholm syndrome like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-52168289084122791122010-12-10T14:47:41.579-06:002010-12-10T14:47:41.579-06:00Yes indeed, the double talk from all angles has mo...Yes indeed, the double talk from all angles has morphed into triple and quadruple talk. They're all playing the same game, of course.<br /><br />PS: I picked up Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' for 3 bucks and was duly impressed, especially the extra with Chris Hedges. 'Single' talk at its best, so to speak.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-72252567141192527302010-12-10T13:16:05.373-06:002010-12-10T13:16:05.373-06:00I thought about listening to the Obama interview t...I thought about listening to the Obama interview this morning but the smarm factor from Inscreep combined with how I've now also developed the same reaction to Obama's voice as I did when Bush was on the air meant there was no way I was going to put up with that much garbage even for a short time.<br /><br />I can only imagine what NPR is doing with Bernie Sanders and Mary Landrieu's filibustering of Obama's latest capitualation.Patrick Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12398291623086774963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-65957745919129275282010-12-10T13:00:48.903-06:002010-12-10T13:00:48.903-06:00Ron Paul tells it like it is on wikileaks.
He'...Ron Paul <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDp1izlMQT0&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">tells it like it is on wikileaks.</a><br /><br />He's several orders of magnitude above Obama in both the intelligence and truth departments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-13352180591035825482010-12-10T13:00:35.148-06:002010-12-10T13:00:35.148-06:00Sorry, HTML hell-code blinked out the Inskreep quo...Sorry, HTML hell-code blinked out the Inskreep quote. Here it is:<br /><br />"This week, my colleague Scott Horsley asked you if there was a different possibility here. He asked if you were going to use this two-year window to push for a broader overhaul of the tax code. You said yes. I want you to expand on that "yes.""Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-51703996367783111752010-12-10T12:59:23.425-06:002010-12-10T12:59:23.425-06:00A tiny but telling nuance from Inskreep's trop...A tiny but telling nuance from Inskreep's trophy Oval Office session with POTUS this morn:<br /><br /><><br /><br />Note the 'I WANT'. No NPR-nik would EVER have spoken that way to Dubya. What Steve WANTS, Steve shall have, even though it be from a POTUS. Just a shade of the - uh - 'plantation owner' in the Inskreep, maybe? Oh, I suppose that's mean of me...<br /><br />And Renaay & Hoarsely's little innuendos surrounding the interview were classics of NPR-Approved Condescension. As if, 'we're MUCH smarter than that Oval Office Occupant'. Again, such innuendos or notions or subtleties - whatever you want to call them, were never in play during NPR's reverential treatment of Bush2, no matter what dumb#@$! things he came up with.<br /><br />Of course, the model was set by Blob Siegel & Maw-ra Liarsson's masterful 'handling' of sex fiend Bill Clinton in those days of yore.<br /><br />Inskreep ends his showcase with a little witty flourish: 'After our interview, the President donned his coat and went out to light the White House Christmas tree.'<br /><br />Why not conclude with a trivialization of a runaway Kenyan Muslim slave passing as an Uppity Negro?<br /><br />Yes, this is all 'subliminable' (to use an endearing Dubya-ism), but to me it all hinged on that particular 'I want' demand. Tiny, but telling.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-17998325555917386142010-12-10T12:14:09.440-06:002010-12-10T12:14:09.440-06:00While NPR's changing titles of stories around ...While NPR's changing titles of stories around may seem like "no big deal", it actually indicates a great deal about their journalistic ethics (or lack thereof).<br /><br />They seem to have no problems changing things around and giving no acknowledgment that they did so -- which makes it hard to avoid the conclusion that they don't want anyone to KNOW that they changed it.<br /><br />That shows a profound contempt for truth and honesty.<br /><br />You really gotta wonder: How many times has NPR changed the actual content of stories after the fact?<br /><br />How many times have they put out "new facts" (time-lines, etc) to please those who feed them?<br /> <br />Unfortunately for NPR, when they put the title in the link, they can't change that because others may already have linked to it (and if they DID change the link entirely, that would attract LOTS of attention to their change, which they certainly wish to avoid)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-25632814731645010632010-12-10T12:00:25.630-06:002010-12-10T12:00:25.630-06:00As documented on NPR Check before, NPR’s history o...As documented on NPR Check <a href="http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-story-is-tricky-one-obviously.html" rel="nofollow">before</a>, NPR’s history of Afghanistan leaves much to be desired. Now comes a <a href="http://www.npr.org/series/131962070/untamed-land-afghanistan-s-wars-past-and-present" rel="nofollow">Blast from the past BONANZA</a> of misinformation at the same great price! In “For Invaders, A Well-Worn Path Out Of Afghanistan” a convenient timeline of propaganda is offered which includes “1978-1979: Pro-Soviet Afghan leaders face civil unrest; Soviet forces invade.” – followed directly by – “1986: U.S. begins supplying weapons, support to mujahedeen fighting the Soviets.”<br /><br />When you are US state-run news it is crucial to leave out that the US desired to give the Soviets their own <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/brzezinski.html" rel="nofollow">VIETNAM</a> by aiding the mujahadeen BEFORE the Soviets invaded. Including this might lead your loyal citizens to conclude that their government has given them ANOTHER Vietnam!<br /><br />“NPR: That’s the Government’s official story and we’re stickin’ to it.”informedveterannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-59425205894812974612010-12-10T11:07:30.720-06:002010-12-10T11:07:30.720-06:00Don't miss Glenn Greenwald's takedown of o...Don't miss Glenn Greenwald's takedown of our state-run news media on FAIR's Counterspin Podcast!informedveterannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-84425671691193028132010-12-10T10:25:16.830-06:002010-12-10T10:25:16.830-06:00The first title to that Gjelten story (still embed...The first title to that Gjelten story (still embedded in the link) "Battle Over WikiLeaks Hits Turning-Point" [toward "anarchy"] actually indicates the slant of the piece:<br /><br />"Wikileaks is going to produce a strong backlash and therefore less press freedom in the end"[which, we can all agree is a bad thing]<br /><br />It's little more than "concern trolling" -- and transparently so, at that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-52726706190700175852010-12-10T10:21:31.582-06:002010-12-10T10:21:31.582-06:00I'm over caffinated this morning, sooooo here&...I'm over caffinated this morning, sooooo here's another post your resident typo king"<br /><br />NPR's reporting on jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiabo seems a bit low key to me.<br /><br />Take yesterday's <a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/12/09/131940673/China-s-Nobel-Crackdown-Echoes-1936" rel="nofollow">China's Nobel Crackdown Echoes 1936</a><br />why it as an interesting history lesson about a anti-Nazi German dissident, I keep getting the feeling that NPR was changing the subject.<br /><br />I wonder if NPR is embarrassed about <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2009/07/china_national_radio_1.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>?<br /><br />GDGRUMPY DEMOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076837066633851919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-82810475902222003462010-12-10T10:03:56.716-06:002010-12-10T10:03:56.716-06:00Gramp's NPR "Deficit Reporting" Chec...Gramp's NPR "Deficit Reporting" Check list is perfect:<br /><br />1) Start with fear mongering: America just list like Spain, Greece, Iceland!<br />2)Misrepresent public opinion: "Everybody" is worried about the Deficit [but nobody's got the guts to do something about it].<br />3)Only interview Right Wing economists: Almost always AEI, CATO, or Perterson [and Republican Senators bought by same]<br />4)Never [ever] mention cutting defense spending.<br />4.5) Offer slight encomium to slightly left of center right types before...<br />5)Closing story with [a hard twist of] repackaged GOP talking points as the bottom line.<br /><br />Rinse and repeat [twice] daily.gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-43860818560789382782010-12-10T09:55:02.805-06:002010-12-10T09:55:02.805-06:00The folks at NPR actually give clowns a bad name.
...The folks at NPR actually give clowns a bad name.<br /><br />As usual, the real comedians like Colbert (as opposed to the [fake] "journalists" at NPR and other news media outlets) are <a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/368131/december-09-2010/international-manhunt-for-julian-assange---daniel-ellsberg" rel="nofollow">reporting the real issues in the wikileaks case</a><br /><br />Very sad, but very true.<br /><br />In the US, at least, many of those who call themselves "journalists" (especially at NPR) have become far too comfortable with the power elites -- and far too self-righteous.<br /><br />Time and again, they have gotten major stories (eg, WMD in Iraq) completely wrong, but instead of admitting their massive screwups and making the changes so they don't repeat the screwups in the future, their response has simply been to circle the wagons and cry that "Journalism itself is under siege. These people are not real journalists. They are irresponsible and childish anarchists" (says the NPR "anal-yst".)<br /><br />yes indeed, "journalism is under siege", by a rag tag group comprised of just a handful of individuals actually DOING what journalists are supposed to do.<br /><br />Could this get ANY more pathetic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-42931880288202052052010-12-10T09:49:44.906-06:002010-12-10T09:49:44.906-06:00Here's a nice take down by the CJR on NPR'...Here's a nice take down by the CJR on NPR's Right wing slanted (my words not theirs) reporting on the deficit. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/npr_plays_ebenezer_scrooge.php?page=all" rel="nofollow">NPR Plays Ebenezer Scrooge: Another lopsided Social Security Story</a><br /><br />Here's my NPR "Deficit Reporting" Check list:<br />1) Start with fear mongering: America just list like Spain, Greece, Iceland!<br />2)Misrepresent public opinion: "Everybody" is worried about the Deficit.<br />3)Only interview Right Wing economists: Almost always AEI, CATO, or Perterson.<br />4)Never mention cutting defense spending.<br />5)Close story with repackaged GOP talking points.<br /><br />Rinse and repeat daily.GRUMPY DEMOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076837066633851919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-34328053629284815852010-12-10T09:26:52.987-06:002010-12-10T09:26:52.987-06:00It's this type of reporting that makes me want...It's this type of reporting that makes me want to bang my head on the radio in my car.<br /><br />How do you a story "Silencing WikiLeaks A Free Speech Challenge For U.S. by Tom Gjelten" and no mention once that the US Government has actively worked to silence Wikileaks by shutting down their internet access and threatening banks that process their donations?<br /><br />Easy when you're National Propaganda Radio, as Glennzilla points out the dominate meme in the media is "It's OK/Legal/Ethical when the US government does it". <br /><br />See prior comments by others about NPR's lack of concern about journalist who aren't cause celeb of Right Wing warmongers.GRUMPY DEMOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076837066633851919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-78432267933554660932010-12-10T07:54:13.682-06:002010-12-10T07:54:13.682-06:00"Battle-Over-WikiLeaks-Hits-Turning-Point&quo..."Battle-Over-WikiLeaks-Hits-Turning-Point" is now named "Silencing WikiLeaks A Free Speech Challenge For U.S." Maybe if these clowns didn't spend so much time reediting their stories they would have time for actual reporting.informedveterannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-40058782815282451532010-12-09T18:13:28.645-06:002010-12-09T18:13:28.645-06:00In Battle-Over-WikiLeaks-Hits-Turning-Point we lea...In <a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/12/09/131940669/Battle-Over-WikiLeaks-Hits-Turning-Point" rel="nofollow">Battle-Over-WikiLeaks-Hits-Turning-Point</a> we learn that <br /><br><i>Over the past few days, more radical elements within the [Wikileaks] movement have carried out cyberattacks on companies that have cut ties with WikiLeaks, exposing the movement to charges that it advocates anarchy and lawlessness. </i><br /><br>Interesting turn of Newspeak here, since it's Wikileaks that has exposed the lawlessness of the USG. It is precisely the tendency of governments to become authoritarian, secretive and to perpetrate lawless conspiracies to bully the many in favor a few insiders, that we need the "Fourth Estate" and first amendment freedoms to protect us from. Thankyou leakers and Wikileaks!gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-89979443620466345962010-12-09T13:35:02.674-06:002010-12-09T13:35:02.674-06:00informedveteran:
They don’t move the comments whe...informedveteran:<br /><br /><i>They don’t move the comments when they put a new AP story on this page so the comments make less and less sense every time they do it.</i><br /><br />I beg to differ.<br /><br />If you ask me, the comments are the ONLY thing that make any sense on NPR's website.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-24414366453814076712010-12-09T13:30:43.631-06:002010-12-09T13:30:43.631-06:00Now there is yet another (3rd at least) story post...Now there is yet another (3rd at least) story posted on the exact same web page, this one with the title- <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130650152" rel="nofollow"> Protests, Cyber-Skirmishes Rage Over WikiLeaks</a>. They don’t move the comments when they put a new AP story on this page so the comments make less and less sense every time they do it. I don’t get it. This latest story is dated 12/9, but the comments go back to 10/22.informedveterannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-71356258123467732592010-12-09T12:59:51.921-06:002010-12-09T12:59:51.921-06:00Former NPR Ombot Jeff Dvorkian has called Assange ...Former NPR Ombot Jeff Dvorkian has called Assange "childish" and "irresponsible" for the way he has released documents, contrasting that to how the "responsible" journalists (like himself) behave.<br /><br />But the reality is quite different from the way Dvorkian is spinning it.<br /><br />AS <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/08/wikileaks/index.html" rel="nofollow">Glenn Greenwald notes about this very same issue</a><br />"the Time article then refers to "a distinction between WikiLeaks' indiscriminate posting of the cables -- which [Nicholas] Burns called 'nihilistic' -- and the more careful vetting evidenced by The New York Times." This is a "distinction" that exists only in the minds of establishment-serving, falsehood-spewing "journalists." <br /><br />Obviously, releasing 1/2 of 1% of the documents one possesses [the reality of what wikileaks has done] is not "indiscriminate" under any recognized meaning of that word. More to the point, the overwhelming majority of cables posted thus far by WikiLeaks were first published by one of its partner newspapers, and contains the redactions applied by those papers."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-31512361254066872322010-12-09T12:48:36.564-06:002010-12-09T12:48:36.564-06:00Just in time Barbie Promotion: dolls-grow-up-a-lit...Just in time Barbie Promotion: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/12/09/131853392/dolls-grow-up-a-little-for-the-holidays" rel="nofollow">dolls-grow-up-a-little-for-the-holidays</a><br /><br>I've been worried sick about how are young people aren't buying enough Barbie dolls these days. Fortunately, NPR is on the job. <br /><br><i>Barbie [is] the "undisputed queen of the doll aisle," [though] Barbie's growth has slowed.<br /><br />Young girls have left Barbie and other dolls for computer-based games and social media sites, [but] the hope is that making dolls taller will help them appear like pre-teen and early teen dolls, instead of babies and adults.</i><br /><br>Yes, NPR is keeping hope alive.gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-63564798050289208502010-12-09T10:59:05.935-06:002010-12-09T10:59:05.935-06:00informed veteran
regarding NPR's link changin...informed veteran<br /><br />regarding NPR's link changing:<br /><br />That's pretty pathetic (and hardly the first time they have done it)<br /><br />I frequent a lot of scientifically oriented blogs and the good ones ALWAYS note when they make a correction or change. In fact, they usually leave the old version up with a line through it so everyone can see the error/change.<br /><br />These are BLOGS, mind you, which the folks at NPR are always belittling:<br /><br /><br />"What we have now is a Wild West of media...We have part of the media operating in a responsible manner and others doing whatever they think necessary." --Jeffery Dvorkin, former NPR ombot and journalism prof at the University of Toronto.<br /><br />he was talking about wilikeaks in particular but its pretty clear that his snide "We're real journalists and you're not" comment was aimed at others like bloggers as well.<br /><br />It's pretty bad (downright pathetic!) that an organization like NPR that claims to be engaged in journalism would just change things without even telling anyone.<br /><br />"NPR: All the news that's fit to change"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com