[Peace-discuss] National Propaganda Radio

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Your right  Carl !

I have said for years now to many liberal - academics that ; " NPR is the 
FOX News of the Inteligensia ".

If anyone thinks this is an outrageous and inaccurate statement, just look 
at this article. And this is NOT the first time. When that bastard fascist 
war criminal Ronald Reagan died ( may he rot in hell ) NPR did not have ONE 
person on criticizing Reagan.
When Michael Moore released his film SICKO, he was badgered and cut-off by 
the NPR " hosts " which was followed by numerous critics of the film.

This is the direct consequence of not having 100 % public funding and 
listener funding for " Public " T.V. and Radio, and instead having corporate 
grants.

David J.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 8:27 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] National Propaganda Radio


> [Many people who consider themselves liberals take NPR seriously. They 
> shouldn't.  --CGE]
>
> NPR Finds Right-Wing Crank to Spit on Howard Zinn's Grave
> David Horowitz in ATC obituary with substance-free attack
>
> When progressive historian Howard Zinn died on January 27, NPR's All 
> Things Considered (1/28/10) marked his passing with something you don't 
> often see in an obituary: a rebuttal.
>
> After quoting Noam Chomsky and Julian Bond, NPR's Allison Keyes turned to 
> far-right activist David Horowitz to symbolically spit on Zinn's grave. 
> "There is absolutely nothing in Howard Zinn's intellectual output that is 
> worthy of any kind of respect," Horowitz declared. "Zinn represents a 
> fringe mentality which has unfortunately seduced millions of people at 
> this point in time. So he did certainly alter the  consciousness of 
> millions of younger people for the worse."
>
> Horowitz's substance-free attack contributed nothing to an understanding 
> of Zinn's life or work, other than conveying that he's disliked by cranky 
> right-wingers.  (Horowitz has been best known in recent years for his 
> race-baiting and Muslim-bashing--Extra!, 5-6/02; FAIR report, 10/1/08.) 
> He seems to have been included merely to demonstrate that NPR will not 
> allow praise for a leftist to go unaccompanied by conservative contempt.
>
> Needless to say, it is not the case that NPR has a consistent principle 
> that all its obituaries be thus "balanced." Take its coverage of the death 
> of William F. Buckley, a figure as admired by the right as much as Zinn 
> was on the left.  Upon his death in February 2008, NPR aired six segments 
> commemorating him, none of which included a non-admiring guest.  In two 
> segments, All Things Considered (2/27/08) presented the remembrances of 
> Rich Lowry (Buckley's successor at National Review), his son Christopher 
> and his biographer Sam Tanenhaus.
>
> One of the All Things Considered segments did include a soundbite of Noam 
> Chomsky debating with Buckley: "No, I don't believe that.... In fact I 
> think that..." But what Chomsky did not believe was unclear, let alone 
> what he actually thought.
>
> Talk of the Nation (2/27/08) featured admirer William Kristol, while Day 
> by Day (2/27/08) had an extended interview with protegee David Brooks. 
> Morning Edition (2/28/08) just quoted Buckley himself.
>
> The celebration of Buckley culminated with Weekend Edition host Scott 
> Simon (2/29/08), who turned the cause of death into a eulogy:  "Emphysema, 
> such an unseemly thing for a man who was so often a breath of fresh air."
>
> In fact, there was much to criticize about Buckley, who was a supporter 
> of, among other things, white supremacism in the U.S. South and South 
> Africa, McCarthyism, nuclear war against China and the tattooing of AIDS 
> patients' buttocks (Extra!, 5-6/08). Reporting his death, however, NPR 
> didn't think it was worth bringing on a critic who would take a negative 
> view. Why the same outlet took a different approach when the subject was 
> an intellectual on the left rather than the right is perhaps something the 
> NPR ombud could answer.
>
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