NPR's Andrea Seabrook fed up with all the lies quits

[Iggy]

74. This is Mostly NPR's and MSM's Fault

let's back up a bit--

years ago the CEO, Dwayne Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland.. a huge agribusiness giant located in IL, got busted by
the federal government for price fixing of a major food additive (Andreas was a big supporter of Nixon, and
once gave Nixon's secretary a bag of $1,000 dollar bills to assist him with his Watergate problem). The federal
indictment/fine handed down by the gov't was at the time the largest in US history.

when Andreas sat before the senate committee investigating ADM, he flat our stated, "when it comes to
agriculture, there is no free market system". this honesty caused nary an eye to blink among the
committee members. I suspect that's because these senators knew how big business is done in the U.S.-- it's
more about monoplization of commodities than the "free market".

not long after this ADM paid NPR (I believe it was around $250,000) to assist ADM with a PR, damage repair campaign.
I was listening to NPR at the time and note several times a day they ran positive, feel good sort of general
info ads-- regarding ADM.

this is when I stopped believing in NPR as "alternative media". in my opinion, their moniker should be NPRR, "National
Public Relations Radio".

re: Seabrook leaving the station-- no surprise.. the surprise is NPR has anyone of any quality working for them.

"We need to stop coddling lawmakers, stop buying their red team, blue team narrative and ask harder questions of them."

The lame excuse NPR officials invariably drag out is, "it's all about access.. we can't get politicians to come on our show
if we ask questions that are too hard.. or that are on their list of questions not to ask".

WTF? really? then why exactly should I listen to NPR? how is NPR different from mainstream media?

they aren't, that's the point.

In 1993, ADM was the subject of a lysine price fixing investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. Senior ADM executives were indicted on criminal charges for engaging in price-fixing within the international lysine market. Three of ADM's top officials, including vice chairman Michael Andreas were eventually sentenced to federal prison in 1999. Moreover, in 1997, the company was fined $100 million, the largest antitrust fine in U.S. history at the time.[9] Mark Whitacre, FBI informant and whistleblower of the lysine price-fixing conspiracy, would also find himself in legal trouble for embezzling money from ADM during his time as an informant for the FBI. In addition, according to ADM's 2005 annual report a settlement was reached under which ADM paid $400 million in 2005 to settle a class action antitrust suit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Daniels_Midland