tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post8026796760277251485..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Some Journalists are More Equal Than OthersMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-86484037081398616242009-06-01T21:45:52.880-05:002009-06-01T21:45:52.880-05:00If the CIA are relying on NPR "journalists" for th...If the CIA are relying on NPR "journalists" for their "intelligence", I'd have to say that the security of our country is probably at serious risk.<br /><br />Perhaps it is just an "act", but many of the people at NPR seem to be utterly clueless. <br /><br />But it might actually explain why pre-war assessments of Iraqi WMD were so far off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-6979413874216257172009-06-01T11:20:32.749-05:002009-06-01T11:20:32.749-05:00Yes, methinks NPR doth protest too much. TPM repo...Yes, methinks NPR doth protest too much. TPM reporter <A HREF="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/acanuck/2009/05/bottom-line-saberi-was-a-spy.php" REL="nofollow">acanuck</A> pretty well calls it as it is: "She was indeed a spy. Just not a very good one." I suppose that's par for NPR. Or maybe even a birdie.geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-47822839289381372632009-06-01T09:30:09.403-05:002009-06-01T09:30:09.403-05:00NPR's constant coverage of Saberi has led me to su...NPR's constant coverage of Saberi has led me to suspect that she probably was working for the CIA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-89049410244115740802009-06-01T08:24:11.296-05:002009-06-01T08:24:11.296-05:00More propaganda by omission at NPR?
We will see h...More propaganda by omission at NPR?<br /><br />We will see how long it takes for them to even mention <A HREF="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-hidary/general-rick-sanchez-call_b_209573.html" REL="nofollow">General Rick Sanchez' (former commander in Iraq) call for a truth commission to investigate torture in Iraq.</A>My guess is that if NPR even mentions it (a big if), they will "balance it" with more BS from Obama about the "need to look forward, not back". <br /><br />Unlike Obama, Sanchez understands what is to be gained by looking back (then again, maybe Obama understands that all too well)<br /><br /> "For the American people to really know what happened, " he replied, "...this was an institutional failure, a personal failure on the part of many...."<br /><br />"If we do not find out what happened," continued the General, "then we are doomed to repeat it."<br /><br />///////end Sanchez quote<br /><br />Wouldn't it be nice to have someone like Sanchez for leader? <br /><br />My guess is it will never happen. He's too damned honest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-70868584332355075582009-05-31T22:07:35.823-05:002009-05-31T22:07:35.823-05:00Ok - the first I've heard of Ellul. But it correl...Ok - the first I've heard of Ellul. But it correlates with of the creepiest radio I've heard in a while - not because it was necessarily bad radio: I'm talking about last week's This American Life episode titled <A HREF="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=381" REL="nofollow"> The Turncoat</A>. <BR><BR>The story about is about a radical anarchist turned FBI informant and involves Common Ground and the Republican National Convention in the twin cities that seems to connect a lot of weird dots. <BR><BR> It also explains a lot about someone like Robert Siegel or whoever, you know, goes into radio broadcasting with good intentions and is brought over to the dark side by a CIA operative whose own motives are highly questionable. Belligerence and world weariness mixed with a goading and toading by the pysops agent who doesn't even know why he's a psyops agent/agent provocateur - part ego, part cynism, anger at estrangement and betrayed by ideals - the typical CIA psyops dude, as I imagine him. <BR><BR> That's the sickness of having a government agency like the CIA which isn't supposed to operate domestically (in the fatherland) and NPR morphing into a domestic VOA (see Kevin Klose) but the system just can't help itself. 'Specially after 911 - gotta k'neck the doubts.geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-37320079539402278692009-05-31T18:37:46.966-05:002009-05-31T18:37:46.966-05:00NPR indubitably IS a propaganda outlet for the Cor...NPR indubitably IS a propaganda outlet for the CorpoRat State.<br /><br />And NPR's audience--educated, middle-class+, mainly affluent-- are that segment of the society which, ironically enough, is the most easily propagandized (<a href="http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/ellul.html" rel="nofollow">Ellul, 1965</a>), because it is the group which as the most at stake in believing the propagandistic utterances of the State, because they view the state as the guarantor of their status.Woody (Tokin Librul/Rogue Scholar/ Helluvafella!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09205896988142798901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-67872860644619205172009-05-31T18:00:56.369-05:002009-05-31T18:00:56.369-05:00The management at NPR may not realize it, but they...The management at NPR may not realize it, but they are really doing a number on their credibility.<br /><br />Their actions are not only unprofessional but they are incontrovertibly propagandistic.<br /><br /><br />They seem to think that they can ignore stories at will and that 1) it makes no difference because "they are not reporting untruths"<br />2) no one will notice the omission.<br /><br />But their silence speaks volumes, not unlike the silence of the Germans during WWII spoke volumes.<br /><br />Through their silence, they are complicit in crimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com