NPR ran several stories this morning about the scandals of the Obama Whitehouse

[Orrex]

They went so far as to tie him into the perceived "curse of the second term" afflcting Presidents over time, and they specifically mentioned the ongoing Benghazi investigation.

In none of these stories did they point out that the scandals have evaporated, nor did they mention the fact that Republicans falsified emails and that the news media were complicit in catapulting the propaganda.


NPR. Proud member of the The Liberal Media establishment.

[Blue_Tires]

1. Last week even the BBC of all people had Judith Miller's pukeworthy analysis

[Octafish]

2. Cokie Roberts sunk to a new low legitimizing the Tea Party.

Sick stuff.

[titaniumsalute]

3. I heard Cookie Roberts as well

I usually turn her off on Monday mornings.

Yes, no mention that Issa knew about the investigation of the IRS a year ago. No mention that the Republicans had doctored the Benghazi emails for "THEIR" spin. No mention that the Republicans knew about and approved the tapping of the AP.

[KG]

4. Cokie Roberts; the fact she has a voice there is all you need to know

about the state of NPRs 'journalism'.

[Orrex]

5. Yeah, she's horrible

I'm thankful that the timing of my commute no longer subjects me to her recitations of the GOP's talking points for the week.

[a kennedy]

8. If I know her story line is coming up on NPR, I turn to my local music station

until her segment is over. She lost my attention to her a long time ago. Ugh.

[Blue Owl]

24. Oh, Kochie...

n/t

[Ikonoklast]

30. They sobered her up for this early in the morning?

NPR must have run out of anyone actually relevant to spew for the AEI:Heritage:Koch Foundation line.

[spanone]

6. m$nbc doing the same

[Pragdem]

7. Apparently, the new definition of "scandal" is the government doing its job.

Since they were getting nowhere with Benghazi, they had to focus on non-issues they knew would get the press and other loons gnashing at the teeth.

[Buzz Clik]

9. NPR has no obligation to be a Proud Member of The Liberal Media Establishment.

In fact, they should not be. So let's dismiss that comment as ridiculous.

Having just listened to the "second-term curse" story, your representation of it was, well, as if you didn't listen to it. Did you?

[uponit7771]

10. I'd like them to be a proud member of reality, posing the stupid to appear bypartisan or for what

...ever reason it's done is asinine at best

[Buzz Clik]

11. Do you listen to NPR? If not, you've chosen wisely based on your personal biases.

If you do listen to them, why?

[Scuba]

29. I listen, and in the last 10 years I've observed a dramatic change ...

... they now allow fully debunked lies to be spouted without challenge. That's new, and I don't like it.

[Ikonoklast]

32. Longer than ten years now.

If it wasn't for Heritage and AEI she wouldn't have two out of three of her guests.

[cordelia]

13. Thank you.

Apparently you and I heard the same story.

[Orrex]

14. Yes, I listened, and I found it to be a non-story fluff piece.

The upshot was this: some of the less than 50% of presidents who've won a second term have faced challenges in that second term due to a number of factors; presidents who did not win a second term did not face those challenge.

In other words, Presidents must face difficulty except when they don't. That's some cutting-edge reportage there, and I hope that the guy who spent 8 years writing a book about that tautalogy is well compensated for his self-published efforts.


NPR's choice to tie Obama to this "curse" through the mechanism of the current "scandals" is bullshit and feeds squarely into the Rightwing talking point of his supposedly failed Presidency. Their additional choice to omit any mention of the fact that the "scandals" are GOP-created fictions, as well as continuing to report on the "scandals" as if they're real problems of Obama's creation, shows how faithfully they cling to the GOP propaganda schedule.


I don't require NPR to be part of the Liberal Media, in part because there's no such thing, practically speaking. Instead, I was pointing out the idiocy of the repeated GOP claim that NPR is a liberal news outlet.

[Buzz Clik]

16. Are you one of those who listens to NPR, yelling at the radio the entire time?

You might consider finding something else.

[Orrex]

17. No. Why do you ask?

And what do you do with your time, aside from failing to comprehend NPR news stories?

[Occulus]

18. Notice how he dismissed as unworthy of discussion everything relevant you said

and instead concentrated upon building a perception among other DU readers that your interpretations are faulty, that you're an inattentive reader, that your comprehension of read materials is faulty, etc.?

Is there a word for that?

[Orrex]

19. Maybe I'll get fired from Chili's.

Sauce for the goose. He suggested that I hadn't heard the news story on which I was commenting (which is false), and he followed by implying that I spend my time shouting at the radio (which is also false).


That leads me to conclude either that he failed to understand what I posted, that he failed to understand the news report, or that he deliberately chose to put forth a falsehood. Take your pick.

[Occulus]

20. .

[Orrex]

21. It was petty and stupid. I apologize.

Deleted.

[Occulus]

22. Hey, no problem

[Scurrilous]

12. How Billionaire David Koch Gets PBS To Dance, Monkey, Dance

<snip>

"Doesn't this old voiceover bring back wholesome childhood memories: "Funding for this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and viewers like you." But thanks to Republicans and people like David Koch, only 12% of PBS's funding comes from the federal government. "Viewers like you" can barely pay their rent, let alone donate sizable amounts to PBS. So the public's network is forced to "create content that educates, informs and inspires," so long as it does not offend the plutocrats who keep it alive—even if that means censoring documentary filmmakers.

According to a deeply depressing report in this week's New Yorker, David Koch withheld a "seven-figure" donation to New York's cash-starved PBS affiliate, WNET, after a documentary critical of the Kochs aired in November. Jane Mayer, somewhat of an authority on the Kochs, reports that Koch's influence essentially killed the airing of another film on PBS entitled Citizen Koch.

Koch, a WNET trustee until he handed in his resignation last week, pulled his donation after the movie Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream aired last November, despite "unprecedented" measures from WNET's president to soften the impact of the film by offering Koch opportunities to rebut the movie's claims and mute its message."

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/20/how_billionaire_david_koch_gets_pbs.php

[kickysnana]

15. Carl Reiner plugging his fund drive special on PBS, paraphrasing here,

"..and there is 25% crap and I hope they do something about that soon."

[geek tragedy]

23. Nice Polite Republicans nt

[Faryn Balyncd]

25. NPR needs to run 100 stories on how Bush installed Republican propagandists to head NPR --- the REAL

....scandal.



NPR has become nothing more than a kinder, gentler version of Fox "News", and as with cover provided by the false Right Wing meme of a non-existent "liberal" media, NPR, in their status as Right Wing mole-in-chief, is capable of much more damage than Fox "News".

Moreover, since no-one considers Fox un-biased, Fox is only able to move the public discourse further to the right by virtue of Fox's ability to get the corporate and "public" media to incorporate Right Wing memes & assumptions.

[Corruption Inc]

28. All that needs to happen is for people to stop listening to NPR's lies

But many people won't, they want to be lied to. The people who don't want to be lied to simply turn NPR off and do other things.

You are correct, NPR sold out a long time ago as has 90% of the rest of the media. But, if NPR/Fox/CBS etc.., suddenly started reporting actual news it's devoted listeners and enablers would just jump to the next lying media frauds and listen to them.

[City Lights]

26. Ugh!

They are horrid.

[Rex]

27. The M$M has a RWing agenda and knows that no one can stop

them from owning the media. That is sad about NPR.

[msanthrope]

31. NPR was 26th out of 28 in accurate polling for the 2012 election.

Rasmussen, Fox, and Newsmax did better. And NPR hasn't substantively addressed this.


http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/07/the_most_accurate_polls.html


Tells me all I need to know about them.