That does it! I'm no longer an NPR listener!!

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28. Power was off yesterday; had battery powered radio only. It was 99.99% trash.

Heard repeated ABC broadcasts moaning about Iran's carpet industry reduced by westerners not buying their $10,000 luxury Persian rugs.

And an interview with a woman who had been making them daily since she was 6 years old. No questions about that, just 'how beautiful' they were. And Iran is getting competition from India and China for selling rugs.

I thought, what are they really saying? Who are they saying this for? The upper class that has $10K to blow on a rug? Really?

There is the question of Iranian economic interests being hurt, saying one in eight works on making these rugs. Really, that's over 10% of their economy, rugs?

Does the world need these rugs to live? Why was that the focus?

And that wasn't all that was wrong in their coverage. They kept repeating about the LAX shooter. Fine and dandy. But they added in something about what a shame it was that taxpayer dollars will be spent to take care of the shooter. And then added in, it's the same program that pays for 'the poor.'

To me, that added in was like Rush's little 'seeds of hate' that I used to hear him use in the nineties. The ones where he'd out of the blue mention a report about the money wasted on the disabled. At the same time he was railing about Hillary's death panels. No comment, just left it there which nearly made me mad enough to call in, but I didn't. Just a seed planted, all it was, as people don't forget what they hear, it goes into their subconscious. To be pulled out later as a construct for the demagogues later.

It was expressed in the same terms the Third Reich did, fussing about how much money with figures added in the billboards, of the 'good, hard working people' were paying taxes to care for the mentally / physically handicapped.

They named them 'worthless mouths' and posted pictures of them, drooling in wheel chairs. The Weimar Republic had a social safety net. The Nazis laid out those seeds, just as the media has, to lay dormant in the mind as needed when a crisis appears to be in the making and people get all stressed and look for someone to blame.

Old as the Nazis, much older that that, and very effective. The next thing the Nazis did when they got some seats in the government, was shut everything that worked down and made only one voice in the media.

It's why FDR made the FCC to prevent it happening. Of course to us at DU, who know some of the history, we can see it coming. But so many don't know a thing, they are fully educated by FNN, etc. NPR has the music you like; other venues have things to attract people but they will always put in the poison seed.

Anyway, good luck on finding anything, I've given up on any progressive radio. It's much worse than it was before Bush and even during Bush. They are really flexing their power.