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Octafish

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8. NPR and Pete Peterson, the Presidents' Friend?

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2015, 06:03 PM

May 2015

"...Opponents of Social Security have been working for many years to tell a much different story about Social Security in order to influence how the media and Washington decision makers view it. One example of this is Wall Street insider Pete Peterson who has dedicated $1 billion of his Wall Street fortune to the destruction of Social Security as we know it. Peterson is joined in his efforts by other wealthy special interests that have much to gain if Social Security is cut or eliminated..." -- Sen. Don Riegle and Lori Hansen Riegle

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/sen-don-riegle/post_1901_b_845106.html

That Pete Peterson.

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Look, a Deficit!: How NPR Distracts You From Issues That Will Actually Affect Your Life [View all] KamaAina May 2015 OP

NPR catapulting the propaganda? Say it ain't so! Orrex May 2015 #1

NPR has been doing this for the past 10 years. You need to pay attention to what they say and not world wide wally May 2015 #2

NPR... sendero May 2015 #3

When did NPR go wrong? philly_bob May 2015 #4

That's when it became obvious... sendero May 2015 #5

FAIR (source of the OP article) has been documenting it since the 80s JHB May 2015 #6

When public funding was cut and they had to beg corporations/foundations for funding. freshwest May 2015 #7

Guh, PBS. I remember when they were airing Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered and the Wall St. Journal Chathamization May 2015 #9

not too long before Bob Edwards left. it has been a downward slide since then corkhead May 2015 #11

Bob Edwards left in 2004 philly_bob May 2015 #12

NPR and Pete Peterson, the Presidents' Friend? Octafish May 2015 #8

A year and a half ago they were airing daily reports about how Obamacare was falling apart. Chathamization May 2015 #10