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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNPR ran several stories this morning about the scandals of the Obama Whitehouse
They went so far as to tie him into the perceived "curse of the second term" afflcting Presidents over time, and they specifically mentioned the ongoing Benghazi investigation.
In none of these stories did they point out that the scandals have evaporated, nor did they mention the fact that Republicans falsified emails and that the news media were complicit in catapulting the propaganda.
NPR. Proud member of the The Liberal Media establishment.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Sick stuff.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)I usually turn her off on Monday mornings.
Yes, no mention that Issa knew about the investigation of the IRS a year ago. No mention that the Republicans had doctored the Benghazi emails for "THEIR" spin. No mention that the Republicans knew about and approved the tapping of the AP.
KG
(28,752 posts)about the state of NPRs 'journalism'.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)I'm thankful that the timing of my commute no longer subjects me to her recitations of the GOP's talking points for the week.
a kennedy
(29,707 posts)until her segment is over. She lost my attention to her a long time ago. Ugh.
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)n/t
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)NPR must have run out of anyone actually relevant to spew for the AEI:Heritage:Koch Foundation line.
spanone
(135,874 posts)Pragdem
(233 posts)Since they were getting nowhere with Benghazi, they had to focus on non-issues they knew would get the press and other loons gnashing at the teeth.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)In fact, they should not be. So let's dismiss that comment as ridiculous.
Having just listened to the "second-term curse" story, your representation of it was, well, as if you didn't listen to it. Did you?
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)...ever reason it's done is asinine at best
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)If you do listen to them, why?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... they now allow fully debunked lies to be spouted without challenge. That's new, and I don't like it.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)If it wasn't for Heritage and AEI she wouldn't have two out of three of her guests.
cordelia
(2,174 posts)Apparently you and I heard the same story.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)The upshot was this: some of the less than 50% of presidents who've won a second term have faced challenges in that second term due to a number of factors; presidents who did not win a second term did not face those challenge.
In other words, Presidents must face difficulty except when they don't. That's some cutting-edge reportage there, and I hope that the guy who spent 8 years writing a book about that tautalogy is well compensated for his self-published efforts.
NPR's choice to tie Obama to this "curse" through the mechanism of the current "scandals" is bullshit and feeds squarely into the Rightwing talking point of his supposedly failed Presidency. Their additional choice to omit any mention of the fact that the "scandals" are GOP-created fictions, as well as continuing to report on the "scandals" as if they're real problems of Obama's creation, shows how faithfully they cling to the GOP propaganda schedule.
I don't require NPR to be part of the Liberal Media, in part because there's no such thing, practically speaking. Instead, I was pointing out the idiocy of the repeated GOP claim that NPR is a liberal news outlet.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)You might consider finding something else.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)And what do you do with your time, aside from failing to comprehend NPR news stories?
Occulus
(20,599 posts)and instead concentrated upon building a perception among other DU readers that your interpretations are faulty, that you're an inattentive reader, that your comprehension of read materials is faulty, etc.?
Is there a word for that?
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Sauce for the goose. He suggested that I hadn't heard the news story on which I was commenting (which is false), and he followed by implying that I spend my time shouting at the radio (which is also false).
That leads me to conclude either that he failed to understand what I posted, that he failed to understand the news report, or that he deliberately chose to put forth a falsehood. Take your pick.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Deleted.
Occulus
(20,599 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)<snip>
"Doesn't this old voiceover bring back wholesome childhood memories: "Funding for this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and viewers like you." But thanks to Republicans and people like David Koch, only 12% of PBS's funding comes from the federal government. "Viewers like you" can barely pay their rent, let alone donate sizable amounts to PBS. So the public's network is forced to "create content that educates, informs and inspires," so long as it does not offend the plutocrats who keep it aliveeven if that means censoring documentary filmmakers.
According to a deeply depressing report in this week's New Yorker, David Koch withheld a "seven-figure" donation to New York's cash-starved PBS affiliate, WNET, after a documentary critical of the Kochs aired in November. Jane Mayer, somewhat of an authority on the Kochs, reports that Koch's influence essentially killed the airing of another film on PBS entitled Citizen Koch.
Koch, a WNET trustee until he handed in his resignation last week, pulled his donation after the movie Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream aired last November, despite "unprecedented" measures from WNET's president to soften the impact of the film by offering Koch opportunities to rebut the movie's claims and mute its message."
http://gothamist.com/2013/05/20/how_billionaire_david_koch_gets_pbs.php
kickysnana
(3,908 posts)"..and there is 25% crap and I hope they do something about that soon."
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)....scandal.
NPR has become nothing more than a kinder, gentler version of Fox "News", and as with cover provided by the false Right Wing meme of a non-existent "liberal" media, NPR, in their status as Right Wing mole-in-chief, is capable of much more damage than Fox "News".
Moreover, since no-one considers Fox un-biased, Fox is only able to move the public discourse further to the right by virtue of Fox's ability to get the corporate and "public" media to incorporate Right Wing memes & assumptions.
Corruption Inc
(1,568 posts)But many people won't, they want to be lied to. The people who don't want to be lied to simply turn NPR off and do other things.
You are correct, NPR sold out a long time ago as has 90% of the rest of the media. But, if NPR/Fox/CBS etc.., suddenly started reporting actual news it's devoted listeners and enablers would just jump to the next lying media frauds and listen to them.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)They are horrid.
Rex
(65,616 posts)them from owning the media. That is sad about NPR.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Rasmussen, Fox, and Newsmax did better. And NPR hasn't substantively addressed this.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/07/the_most_accurate_polls.html
Tells me all I need to know about them.