tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post8350753994022020728..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Q TipsMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-31907090555920807222012-07-02T04:00:51.641-05:002012-07-02T04:00:51.641-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.JayVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02892272648798100594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-6160215383136275442012-06-28T08:56:08.674-05:002012-06-28T08:56:08.674-05:00^ (giggles)^ (giggles)bpfb!!!!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-82386763608288353832012-06-22T17:00:30.077-05:002012-06-22T17:00:30.077-05:00""We don't normally fact check #GOP...""We don't normally fact check #GOP #Romney but when we do and they lie, we call it 'chutzpah' Stay cowardly my friend" -NPR<br /><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/06/21/155524643/romney-to-latino-voters-you-have-an-alternative" rel="nofollow">Romney To Latino Voters: 'You Have An Alternative' : NPR</a>GRUMPY DEMOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076837066633851919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-8784327820953137152012-06-19T09:38:21.288-05:002012-06-19T09:38:21.288-05:00We started out hearing about "mysterious grou...We started out hearing about "mysterious groups" (Mood head of UN observers), then we heard about "Islamist groups", and now we hear about Islamist groups "influenced by al-Queda". Eventually we will learn about US support for its former existential foe as long as it fights Syria and Iran. D. Amos couldn't find anything when she reports from damascus other than brave freedom fighters (operating in neighborhoods which is terrorism in Iraq). She never mentioned the suicide bombers but in Iraq NPR was able to pin the blame and even the size of the bomb before the shrapenal fell back to earth.<br /><br />We've always been on the side of the Syrian Free Army so they can not be "terrorists. <br /><br />I guess Carvin (what the heck is Director of Strategic planning at NPR anyway?) heard Bush yell about "helping the terrorists out" rather than the task of smoking them out. Hope there are no drone missle strikes on NPR headquarters or NPR West. And is there a need for NPR to get lawyered up?<br /><br />edkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-1895726741065062132012-06-16T09:14:58.182-05:002012-06-16T09:14:58.182-05:00Whyy is now taking money from the Marcellus Shale ...Whyy is now taking money from the Marcellus Shale Coalition. And I "hear" that the word frack or fracking is somehow negative, at least to the MSC. I wonder when those terms will be eliminated from any reporting done by WHYY?<br /><br />edkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-57811592360155357652012-06-11T07:48:47.570-05:002012-06-11T07:48:47.570-05:00Click and Clack always characterized themselves as...Click and Clack always characterized themselves as being odd bedfellows with the NPR crowd,"<br /><br />and never missed an opportunity to remind everyone that they both went to MIT.<br /><br />The thing I always wondered (still do) is "If these guys are so smart why the hell did they spend their 'careers' working in radio (with some of the dumbest people on the planet -- Glenn Beck, Steve Inskeep, Scott Simon, etc) and doing such a stupid program to boot"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-64022849410560561652012-06-10T12:44:31.290-05:002012-06-10T12:44:31.290-05:00Of course, Click and Clack always characterized th...Of course, Click and Clack always characterized themselves as being odd bedfellows with the NPR crowd, presumably because they attempted to appeal to the blue collar types. "Don't make the mistake of just governing for the people in the capitol - take into account those in the close-in suburbs, too." - the Karzai Bros.gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-12578172007870962922012-06-10T12:35:09.020-05:002012-06-10T12:35:09.020-05:00Or, given NPR's pro-war obsessions, "Seek...Or, given NPR's pro-war obsessions, "Seek and Sack."gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-53248430352692583172012-06-09T19:55:21.611-05:002012-06-09T19:55:21.611-05:00Given NPR's whoring for ANGA, "Frick '...Given NPR's whoring for ANGA, "Frick 'n Frack" would probably also be apropos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-2762142352477103342012-06-09T08:49:28.152-05:002012-06-09T08:49:28.152-05:00Maybe we could have a contest to see the two peopl...Maybe we could have a contest to see the two people picked to replace the Car Guys (Kharzi Talk is NOT in the running!!!).<br /><br />We could have Simon and Innskeep (Quack and Flack) or perhaps Siegel and Norris (Sad and Sack.<br /><br />edkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-63380927010788118992012-06-08T20:23:36.800-05:002012-06-08T20:23:36.800-05:00oh, my.
Flushable Scotty is starting to get it fr...oh, my.<br /><br />Flushable Scotty is starting to get it from all directions.<br /><br />Lots of folks are calling him on his -- and NPR's -- flushable crap.<br /><br /><br />Following is from<br />Hold That "Hot" Fukushima Sushi<br />by Harvey Wasserman<br />We all knew it was coming. <br />Pacific Bluefin Tuna <br />http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/08-5<br /><br />Radioactive tuna has been caught off the coast of California. The fingerprint of cesium 137 is unmistakably from the exploded reactors at Fukushima. <br /><br /><br /><br /><i> "National Public Radio has assured us all that the radioactive tuna are perfectly safe to eat. This is the same network whose Scott Simon glibly told us that there were no injuries at Three Mile Island, "not even a sprained ankle." </i><br /><br /><i>"But as long-time radiation expert Robert Alavarez warns, "it's not harmless." Fukushima released far more cesium-137 than the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many decades ago lesser fallout from nuclear testing forced the confiscation of more than 4 million pounds of fish. </i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-4934773498227690532012-06-08T12:02:20.794-05:002012-06-08T12:02:20.794-05:00The car Talk guys are retiring.
Thank god for sma...The car Talk guys are retiring.<br /><br />Thank god for small favors.<br /><br />What a couple of stupid clowns.<br /><br />How anyone could listen for more than about five minutes to those guys laugh at their own stupid jokes -- which nearly always involved putting down the callers -- is beyond comprehension.<br /><br />And as far as providing useful information, you can get more of that from a real mechanic in 2 minutes than you could get from those clowns in 2 years.<br /><br />I think the thing that bugged me most about them is what bugs me most about NPR announcers in general: their "I'm smarter (and better) than you" are attitude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-82216901388894789322012-06-08T11:28:44.796-05:002012-06-08T11:28:44.796-05:00Scott Simon is about as much of a real Quaker as G...Scott Simon is about as much of a real Quaker as George Bush and Dick Cheney are real Methodists, or as Osama bin Laden was a real Muslim, for that matter.<br /><br />None of these religions countenances violence.<br /><br />What these folks all have in common is that they are all fakes who use their professed religions to gain "credibility" among the gullible masses.<br /><br />I don't happen to believe in God and Heaven and Hell, but I'm pretty sure that if there is a God and she is just, Simon, Bush and the rest will be spending a lot of time in a hot place together (and it won't be Bermuda).<br /><br />And if by chance there is a God who is NOT just and ends up welcoming folks like Simon and Bush and Cheney and bin Laden to Heaven, then all I can say is I hope I go to the other place cuz i could not stand to spend eternity with people like Simon.<br /><br />Simon is one of the best reasons going for pulling the plug on NPR.<br /><br />The irony is that even his colleagues at NPR are too stupid to see what damage he has done to NPR's credibility over the years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-40488913165842037732012-06-07T05:00:36.729-05:002012-06-07T05:00:36.729-05:00That American Dream series from Ari Shapiro. All I...That American Dream series from Ari Shapiro. All I could think of was American Exceptionalism. Those "experts" he's had on have no clue about how global changes, especially with the climate, are effecting permanently everyone, not just Americans. The series seems to say because we are Americans we have a right to consume, consume and grow, grow no matter what.JayVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02892272648798100594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-69076131527253082182012-06-06T17:05:48.888-05:002012-06-06T17:05:48.888-05:00MFW looks more like bin Laden than bin Laden -- no...MFW looks more like bin Laden than bin Laden -- not a difficult feat, since the latter-day OBL hardly looked like himself.mirandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-17811763121911644972012-06-05T22:39:49.043-05:002012-06-05T22:39:49.043-05:00Ha ha, "Moist flushable wipe." Yeah, I&...Ha ha, "Moist flushable wipe." Yeah, I'm starting to develop nostalgia for the old days of exposing SS. Remember the <a href="http://garyflood.org/osama_simon.gif" rel="nofollow">the morph</a>? Good times...not.so.much. Swell that Counterpunch is taking up the mantel.gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-46007340657482781952012-06-05T08:38:35.208-05:002012-06-05T08:38:35.208-05:00NPR Checkers, please do not miss this takedown of ...NPR Checkers, please do not miss this takedown of the Moist Flushable Quaker.<br /><br />"However, Simon – as much of a Quaker in his commitment to peace as fellow Quaker Richard M. Nixon was – prefers war as the method of solving international crises."<br /><br />http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/04/scott-simon-npr-the-empire/mirandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-14874482737140478092012-06-02T10:32:41.260-05:002012-06-02T10:32:41.260-05:00What do you suppose the chance is that any of the ...What do you suppose the chance is that any of the former Mubarack apologists at NPR will admit they were wrong now that Mubarack has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for killing protesters?<br /><br />I'd say zero.<br /><br />The folks at NPR will just do what they usually do: "disappear" (without a trace) the previous stories from their web site and act like they never said any of the stuff they did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-10650583208167475462012-05-30T18:04:42.186-05:002012-05-30T18:04:42.186-05:00Just noticing this "Responsibility to Protect...Just noticing this "<a href="http://www.bits.de/NRANEU/docs/ICISS1201supplement.pdf" rel="nofollow">Responsibility to Protect</a>" doctrine that was largely supported by the Joan Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies: <br /><br />Väyrynen, Raimo et al. Inventive and Preventive Diplomacy. Notre Dame: Joan B. Kroc Institute for<br />International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1999.<br /><br />Uh huh. That's got that NPR doublespeak New World Order/New American Century goop dripping all over it.gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-69331086879241820712012-05-29T08:59:21.572-05:002012-05-29T08:59:21.572-05:00It doesn't surprise me that Americans don'...It doesn't surprise me that Americans don't no diddly-squat about anything other than who wins on American Idol. Yet NPR continues to tell its listeners they are all "above average", to coin a phrase. But . . .<br /><br />The American Dream is being examined by npr. Wonder if we will hear about Marx's contention that a person's financial situation is NOT determined by God but by intervention and manipulation(FaceBook IPO???)by humans.<br /><br />We are about to undergo a 13 year remembrance of that other war founded on lies. I'll bet by the time it's over we will have statements from N. Vietnamese PT boat commanders that they actually did attack the Maddox and the Turner Joy. My Lai? Never happened. And the best thing of all? WE WON!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-51356033927286266682012-05-26T16:58:59.238-05:002012-05-26T16:58:59.238-05:00Listening to the horrific reports coming out of Ho...Listening to the horrific reports coming out of Honduras, I <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/search/index.php?searchinput=honduras&tabId=all&sort=date" rel="nofollow">searched </a>NPR to see how they're covering this. Uh-huh. Aside from a few AP stories (see <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=153267636" rel="nofollow">here </a> and <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=153175223" rel="nofollow">here</a>) that didn't get broadcast, nada.gDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301694571913815244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-53474258621132272372012-05-24T11:48:57.329-05:002012-05-24T11:48:57.329-05:00Follow up to post about study:
It shows the sad s...Follow up to post about study:<br /><br />It shows the sad state of journalism in the US that people who listen to NPR end up ranking as being the most well-informed. <br /><br />It shows what a poor job most media are doing at fulfilling their mission to enable people to make informed decisions.<br /><br />And, how few people are well-informed at all.<br /><br />And, of course, what a good job the Fawning Corporate Media are doing of protecting the powerful and privileged.<br /><br />For me, this is the root of our problems. When people are not well-informed, the powerful and privileged get to do what they want.<br /><br />My hope lies in Occupy and other truly populist movements (not the Faux Tea Party). And more other movements worldwide. Most recently, the historic civil disobedience occurring in Montreal. I hope that these become so large that it will become increasingly difficult to ignore them.<br /><br />Montreal<br />http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/23-5<br /><br /><br />Similarly in Mexico, demonstrations against media bias<br />http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/24-3Nate Bowmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-57674929092383633242012-05-23T20:23:57.897-05:002012-05-23T20:23:57.897-05:00Don't often tune into NPR News these days -- t...Don't often tune into NPR News these days -- the BBC feed is far superior -- much more interesting and much less parochial.<br />However, happened to tune in yesterday and was regaled by Tom Bowman reporting on how much better things are in a town in Afghanistan two years after our brave heroes drove out the Taliban. So thanks to the US it's gherkins not gunfire in the town square.<br />It struck me as propaganda even cheaper than usual. Who are NPR kidding with this crap? Come home Tom and stop wasting everyone's time and money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-3245191163455344042012-05-23T10:40:52.088-05:002012-05-23T10:40:52.088-05:00"...the study concludes that media sources ha..."...the study concludes that media sources have a significant impact on the number of questions that people were able to answer correctly. The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly — a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all. On the other hand, if they listened only to NPR, they would be expected to answer 1.51 questions correctly; viewers of Sunday morning talk shows fare similarly well. And people watching only The Daily Show with Jon Stewart could answer about 1.42 questions correctly."<br /><br />http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/final.pdf<br /><br />I don't think it's a stretch to say that NPRcheckers would rate even higher.<br /><br />h/t poynter.orgNateBowmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-37786427489652383442012-05-23T10:34:19.451-05:002012-05-23T10:34:19.451-05:00^ & ^^ - And no doubt in that scary "big ...^ & ^^ - And no doubt in that scary "big bad wolf" bedtime story affected delivery of hers.<br /><br />edsharp ormilt (i think...)bpfbnoreply@blogger.com