tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post805433306167801801..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: More TroopsMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-80554563903191572412006-12-24T15:12:00.000-06:002006-12-24T15:12:00.000-06:00Well Mytwords, I have a feeling that your excrutia...Well Mytwords, I have a feeling that your excrutiatingly truthful suggestions for Scott Simon to ask those eminent experts will go by the wayside. Another missed opportunity for NPR to peer out of its widening rut of irresponsible broadcasting. I truly wonder if such thoughts even occur to NPR reporters? Could they really be that clueless? That dim? Of course, when you've signed on to a specific company line, the nail that stands up will get hammered down. Scott Simon may fancy himself a champion for the downtrodden and the underdogs of the world, but the timidity that he exhibits in the interview in question here, has 'Vichy' written all over it. Superficial questioning often masks covert cooperation.<br /><br />I have yet to encounter a sustained questioning in the US mass media about the issues and conditions that cause terrorism in the first place. The list you offer up is certainly withon the top 20 reasons why. But of course, any admittance of collusion must and will be repressed, even within small-time media like NPR.<br /><br />In an earlier comment I mentioned the recent film, 'Why We Fight' as a clear and well-constructed explanation of the military-industrial complex's intense interest and involvement in most of the world's conflicts today. If Simon has never heard of the film, or if he has seen it and did not grasp what it was saying, then he's a much bigger dumbass (and company man) than I thought. But then sycophants are pretty impressionable, usually in the wrong directions.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.com