[Peace-discuss] [sf-core] Fwd: Save NPR and PBS

Fri Feb 11 22:11:30 CST 2011

I have had no use for NPR ( National Public Radio ) and PBS TV for quite 
some time.

Cases in point....

The propoganda campaign they aired when Reagan died a few years ago ( may 
his soul rot in hell ) that presented Reagan as an idolized icon, with NO 
counter view of Reagan and his disasterous foreign ( can you say " war 
crimes " ) policy and his disasterous neo-liberal / neo-conservative 
domestic policies.

Then there was the coverage of the People's Historian Howard Zinn when he 
died a little over a year ago. The ONLY view about Howard Zinn presented on 
NPR was the trash job on Zinn done by David Howoritz.

NPR is nothing but FOX " news " for the intelligencia.

The reason of course for NPR's de-evolution is the ever increasing reliance 
over the years on corporate funding.

I could care less if NPR goes off the air.
It would be one less corporate news outlet.
What suprises me is the large number of seemingly well educated and 
supposedly " compasionate and progressive " people who still listen to NPR's 
corpoarte trash and consider it an " opposition " and " objective " news 
source.

David J.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. ESTABROOK" <cge at shout.net>
To: "Belden Fields" <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
Cc: "Walter Feinberg" <wfeinber at illinois.edu>; "Fred Coombs Fred Coombs" 
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Subject: Re: [sf-core] Fwd: Save NPR and PBS

> National Propaganda Radio? Why?
>
> NPR reports on Obama's war in the Mideast probably don't differ formally 
> from
> official Russian accounts during their invasion of Afghanistan. They would 
> have
> discussed how can we get victory, how can we destroy the terrorists, will 
> this
> tactic work, will that tactic work, we're losing too many soldiers and so 
> on. We
> assume that no one in the official Russian media asked, Do we have a right 
> to
> invade another country? And of course NPR doesn't do that either.
>
> But NPR has far less excuse. With media under totalitarian control, if you 
> said
> the wrong thing you'd go off to the gulag. Here it's just willing 
> subordination
> to power. The result is no main-stream journalism - even (particularly?) 
> NPR -
> that goes beyond the college newspaper cheering for the home team.
>
> Chris Hedges prefaces his important new book, "The Death of the Liberal 
> Class,"
> with a passage from Orwell's suppressed introduction to Animal Farm:
>
>      "At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it 
> is
> assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is 
> not
> exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to 
> say
> it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was 'not done' to mention trousers 
> in the
> presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds 
> himself
> silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion 
> is
> almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the
> highbrow periodicals" - and, he might have added, on highbrow radio.
>
> During the presidential campaign Obama said that the spectrum of 
> discussion in
> the United States extends between two crazy extremes, Rush Limbaugh and 
> NPR. The
> truth, he said, is in the middle and that is where he is going to be - in 
> the
> middle, between the crazies.
>
> Obama has a way of telling the truth about his right-wing politics, 
> certain that
> no one will hear him.  NPR certainly won't tell.
>
>
> On 2/11/11 7:55 PM, Belden Fields wrote:
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>> *From: *Troy Burks <burkstroy at yahoo.com <mailto:burkstroy at yahoo.com>>
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>>> <danielle at prometheusradio.org <mailto:danielle at prometheusradio.org>>, 
>>> Danis
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>>> *Subject: **Fw: Save NPR and PBS*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On *Fri, 2/11/11, Daniel Mintz, MoveOn.org Political Action
>>> /<moveon-help at list.moveon.org <mailto:moveon-help at list.moveon.org>>/* 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     From: Daniel Mintz, MoveOn.org Political Action
>>>     <moveon-help at list.moveon.org <mailto:moveon-help at list.moveon.org>>
>>>     Subject: Save NPR and PBS
>>>     To: "Rev. Troy A. Burks" <burkstroy at yahoo.com 
>>> <mailto:burkstroy at yahoo.com>>
>>>     Date: Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:07 PM
>>>
>>> 
>>> <http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=1>"Congress
>>>     must protect NPR and PBS and guarantee them permanent funding, free 
>>> from
>>>     political meddling."
>>>     <http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=1>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Sign the petition
>>>     <http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=2>
>>>
>>>     Dear MoveOn member,
>>>
>>>     I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
>>>
>>>     With Republicans back in charge of the House of Representatives, 
>>> *funding
>>>     for NPR and PBS is in grave danger.* Again.
>>>
>>>     The Republicans just released their budget proposal, and it *zeroes 
>>> out
>>>     funding for both NPR and PBS*—the worst proposal in more than a 
>>> decade.^1
>>>
>>>     They probably think that no one will notice these cuts in the midst 
>>> of so
>>>     many others. But the millions of listeners and viewers who rely on 
>>> public
>>>     broadcasting for "Sesame Street," "All Things Considered," and 
>>> independent
>>>     journalism will notice.
>>>
>>>     We need to tell Republicans that cutting off funding was 
>>> unacceptable last
>>>     time they were in charge, and it's unacceptable now.
>>>
>>>     Add your name to the petition to save NPR and PBS
>>>     <http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?id=26078-17377114-0nf7g3x&t=3>
>>>
>>>     The petition says: "/Congress must protect NPR and PBS and guarantee 
>>> them
>>>     permanent funding, free from political meddling./"
>>>
>>>     Thanks for all you do.
>>>
>>>     –Daniel, Amy, Michael, Wes, and the rest of the team
>>>
>>>     1. "Beyond Reason on the Budget," /The New York Times/, February 10, 
>>> 2011
>>>     http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/opinion/11fri1.html
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