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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 08:17 PM
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I though NPR was doing a follow-up on the letter writing propaganda
I though NPR was doing a follow-up on the letter writing propaganda?

What happened to that? Someone here said they sent an Email to NPR with links about Calcillo’s (sp) background, which suggested this might have been more sophisticated propaganda than NPR had represented yesterday.

Adam Hochberg wrote back saying he was doing a follow-up. I didn’t hear anything.

I wondered if he submitted a story which the editors rejected.
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 08:18 PM
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1. Perhaps the research is taking longer than a day?
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The Zanti Regent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 08:19 PM
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2. NPR = Nothing but Propaganda for Republicans
NPR is hopeless

Try Pacifica instead

http://www.pacifica.org/
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TennesseeWalker Donating Member (925 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 08:33 PM
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3. BS
I've been listening lately. NPR is NOT "Fox News Lite".

O'Reilly embarrassed himself again with Terry Gross on Fresh Air. Just heard an old Franken interview a while ago, and Bush is shown in a relatively bad light during news broadcasts. NPR is on our side....they're REALLY "Fair and Balanced".
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 08:38 PM
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4. Nope!
not when their sponsors include Lockheed Martin and ADM (Archers Daniels Midland - or something like this?). They are NOT fair and balanced. My money goes to WPFW-FM radio in D.C. - home of Democracy Now.
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 08:50 PM
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5. It is the OWNERSHIP of the media not the SPONSORSHIP
that matters most. If you have any actual information that these sponsors exercise some sort of editorial control, overt, covert, conscious, subconscious or whatever, I'd like to hear it.
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DUreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 09:03 PM
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7. You mean like the GE theme music contained within MarketPlace theme music?
They all Whore for their so-called sponsorship money

in violation of their charter.

It was supposed to be a Fucking Public Trust.
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 09:02 PM
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6. NPR is the real Pravda
It's pretty close to the real military industrial complex official party line that they use to brainwash what passes for an intelligentsia in this sad land. NPR's corporate/CIA control has had a lot to do with what has transpired since the selection. Every Monday morning for years now Cokie Roberts has told NPR listeners that Bush was just the greatest overacheiving POTUS since the Gipper. Resistance is futile. Now they whore for the Groper and the recall. Now they character assassinate Wesley Clark, Dennis Kucinich, Gray Davis, the French.....
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 09:12 PM
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8. Don't confuse the ancillary...
... programs such as Fresh Air and Diane Rehm with NPR news.

NPR news is propaganda - you should have heard the absurd crap they did on Clark today. And I'm a Dean man.
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 09:23 PM
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9. Operation Mockingbird?Check NPR"s President-CEO and Chairman of the Board
Kevin Klose
President and CEO

Kevin Klose is President and Chief Executive Officer for NPR® (National Public Radio®), America's premier non-profit news and cultural radio programming service, with more than 730 stations and a weekly audience of nearly 22 million listeners nationwide.

A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Klose is an award-winning author and international broadcasting executive. Prior to joining NPR in December 1998, Klose served successively as Director of U.S. International Broadcasting, overseeing the U.S. Government's global radio and television news services (1997-98); and President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), broadcasting to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union (1994-97). Klose first joined RFE/RL in 1992 as Director of Radio Liberty, broadcasting to the former Soviet Union in its national languages.

---------------snip---------and then


John A. Herrmann, Jr.
Managing Director, Global Investment Bank at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co

John A. Herrmann, Jr. is a managing director of the Global Investment Bank sector of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. He advises corporations and financial sponsors throughout the world on merger and acquisition strategies and execution.

Before coming to J.P. Morgan Chase, Herrmann was a co-founder and served for years as senior managing director in the merger and acquisition department of Lehman Brothers.
Herrmann is currently a member of the NPR board of directors and the president of the NPR Foundation. Also, he is a member of the Yale University Council and former chairman of its Committee on Development, a member of the board of trustees of the Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services, and trustee of the Steep Rock Association.

Herrmann received his B.A. from Yale in 1957 and an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1961.

<http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/indexboard.html>
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 09:23 PM
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10. Agree - I've heard their bias as well...
...about Clark. Absolutely there is bias.
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-03 09:34 PM
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11. NPR set it up with an interview with Gen Shelton about his comeback from
hurting himself badly in a fall. They just built this General Shelton guy up like he was God and never mentioned Wes Clark. I didn't hear today's propaganda but I bet that Shelton is one of the people quoted in much of the antiClark rants out there.
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