tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post8546274589278953623..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Tea Party RadioMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-65414584162188793812009-09-03T18:32:27.290-05:002009-09-03T18:32:27.290-05:00I took photos of the Sacramento Tea Party Express ...I took photos of the Sacramento Tea Party Express event. Take a look at the photos: <br /><br />http://www.coffeesee.com/2009/09/02/151/amoureux des visageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00335260022870174416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-77185493638528913562009-09-03T11:25:28.501-05:002009-09-03T11:25:28.501-05:00NPR exists only to "pacify" the American...NPR exists only to "pacify" the American management class.<br /><br />edkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-74273367877100527872009-09-02T18:40:25.837-05:002009-09-02T18:40:25.837-05:00So glad I have shunned NoPR for 'Teen Kid'...So glad I have shunned NoPR for 'Teen Kid's News' - much more substance. Tee hee hee~beeeg!peeeenk!feeeezy!beeeeny!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-86829663871313833842009-09-02T17:17:15.780-05:002009-09-02T17:17:15.780-05:00Here are the propaganda techniques used by NPR jus...Here are the propaganda techniques used by NPR just for that tea bagger report:<br /><br />"they appear to be folks who work pretty hard for a living." <br />(Plain Folks)<br /><br />they are motivated by broad ideals."<br />(Glittering Generalities, Assertion)<br /><br />"people are comfortable using language most others left behind with the end of the Cold War." <br />(Transfer)<br /><br />"We don't need a communist nation. And that's what Obama's taking us to."<br />(Testimonials, Name calling, Simplification, Pinpointing the enemy)<br /><br />"The goal is to bring together different groups concerned about what he calls heavy handed government policies."<br />(Assertion, simplification, pinpointing the enemy )<br /><br />Of course, the whole NPR report on the tea baggers is an example of the "Bandwagon" technique, since the goal is to make it appear that these people represent a much larger fraction of the American public than they do.<br /><br />And NPR makes almost constant use of "card stacking" (here and elsewhere) when they omit highly relevant information (dictator Obama, birth certificate nonsense, etc)<br /><br />Sadly, almost every "news" report that NPR produces is chock full of such examples of their use of these propaganda techniques. <br /><br />Pathetically, they don't even try to hide their use of such techniques. Most of them are blatant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-60007229359951307472009-09-02T16:46:39.324-05:002009-09-02T16:46:39.324-05:00This FOX-lite smooth jazz propaganda is really dis...This FOX-lite smooth jazz propaganda is really disturbing given the lack of any coverage on the broadcast side of the (14?) Teabaggers showing up gun a couple of weeks ago.<br /><br />I bet the guys with guns were having a lot of fun too.GRUMPY DEMOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076837066633851919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-52314519986751791502009-09-02T12:47:56.702-05:002009-09-02T12:47:56.702-05:00I can imagine my good Phil Reeves entering NPR HQ ...I can imagine my good Phil Reeves entering NPR HQ and thinking, 'Get me the hell out of here - NOW!'<br /><br />A back alley in Bombay has more soul and more humanity than that sterile place...Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-49439766883264140472009-09-02T12:44:24.335-05:002009-09-02T12:44:24.335-05:00Good point, Anon.
NPR-niks clearly have no choice...Good point, Anon.<br /><br />NPR-niks clearly have no choice but to be elitists. From Cokie's 'but the Democrats' to Ari's nasally inflections, everyone at NPR HQ looks down on the Great Unwashed with either amusement or repugnance.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-28644112797873373222009-09-02T11:38:11.187-05:002009-09-02T11:38:11.187-05:00The real irony is most of those at NPR undoubtedly...The real irony is most of those at NPR undoubtedly have nothing but contempt for most of these folks. <br /><br />Can you imagine what Cokie Roberts, Steve Inskeep, Terry Gross and the others must say about the tea baggers in their private conversations?<br /><br />They are basically using the tea baggers to further their own (libertarian) agenda.<br /><br />The tea baggers are basically their proxies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-34936018854155766152009-09-02T11:19:26.121-05:002009-09-02T11:19:26.121-05:00Yes indeed, NPR, Fox and their kind - the usual su...Yes indeed, NPR, Fox and their kind - the usual suspects - are doing their utmost to encourage people to abandon civilized behavior in favor of reactionary and sensational (thus, ratings-boosting) emotionalism.<br /><br />My head-shaking cynicism reverts to: we are witnessing a civilization in rapid decline.<br /><br />My occasions of optimism reply with: if we had a responsible media that preferred intelligence to profit, things need not go this way.<br /><br />An idealistic humanitarian might say: these people (e.g. Teabaggers) need HELP, not enablement. The media is enabling them to make utter fools out of themselves.<br /><br />Indeed, the militia movement represents the same kind of benighted mental perversions, rooted in selfishness, mind#@$*s, and deep personal unhappiness.<br /><br />Nevertheless, my verdict after this mini-seminar: a civilization in decline.<br /><br />I would consider it an honor to be proven wrong.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-29295373043890450342009-09-02T10:38:41.589-05:002009-09-02T10:38:41.589-05:00meant to say Fox is a little more in your face..
...meant to say Fox is a little more in your face..<br /><br />but now that i think about it, it's six of one, a half dozen of the otherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-72142090872896300012009-09-02T10:36:54.878-05:002009-09-02T10:36:54.878-05:00It is no secret that NPR is run by Libertarian typ...It is no secret that NPR is run by Libertarian types so it is no surprise that they would support this kind of stuff on an ongoing basis.<br /><br />The fact that NPR even covers these <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/protester-holds-up-copy-o_n_274611.html" rel="nofollow">fruitcakes</a>(when they regularly remain silent on far more important things like the fraud in the banking system that led to the meltdown, where all the bailout money has gone, downing street minutes (way back when), conflicts of interest of Senators and others opposing health care reform, etc, etc speaks <i>volumes</i> about NPR's biases.<br /><br />I had to laugh out loud when i read this part "I think the one thing that just about everyone had in common is that they feel like they're not being heard."<br /><br />funny NPR never said that about the 70+% of the population when we had the Bush Cheney gang "leading us" (off the cliff).<br /><br />or for that matter, NPR has never said that about those who favor Single payer, US out of Iraq and Afghanistan, prosecution of the Bush torturemeisters etc, etc.<br /><br />NPR inevitably dismisses the latter as "disaffected liberals" [NPR's catch all phrase with anyone who disagrees with what Bush/Cheney did].<br /><br />I remember first learning about <a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/proptech.htm" rel="nofollow">"propaganda" techniques</a> back in 7th grade social studies class and it occurs to me that NPR uses every single one of those techniques on a regular basis.<br /><br />They are really different from Fox ONLY in degree (and only a couple degrees at that) and subtlety (NPR is a little more in your face -- just a little).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-86317649278880821992009-09-02T09:53:29.365-05:002009-09-02T09:53:29.365-05:00Salts of the Earth -- with guns. I'm going to ...Salts of the Earth -- with guns. I'm going to read "It Can't Happen Here" again.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_HereJuan "Toss" Ensaladahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863718055252256536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-61453386761189482322009-09-02T08:40:25.417-05:002009-09-02T08:40:25.417-05:00This is quite mystifying. I heard the first two re...This is quite mystifying. I heard the first two reports and got the impression that NPR was willfully ignoring the controversial aspects of the teabaggers -- details that have a been a feature of reports on this "movement" since it began in the spring. Did they think we weren't going to notice? Did they actually think we were going to say "Wow, those teabaggers are actually splendid fellows, not a bunch of cranks, racists, wingnuts and lunatics as we have been led to believe. Thanks NPR!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com