their commentators are quantitatively more conservative now, as well as a LARGE majority of guests
there's a link dealing with the numbers
head of NPR, Kevin Klose:
Before becoming President and Chief Executive Officer of National
Public Radio, Kevin Klose was Director of International Broadcasting at
the U.S. Information Agency - that's the U.S. Government's
'propaganda arm' overseas, charged with running American-funded
and staffed radio and television stations in other countries like the
'Voice of America' network and the anti-Cuban Radio Marti.
Klose has also had trainees in American-run psychological operation
(PsyOp) campaigns intern at NPR during his tenure there -
demonstrating a dangerously close connection between U.S.
disinformation campaigns overseas and the domestic 'public'
radio network.
It's disturbing enough that the head of NPR formerly controled the
propaganda wing of our government, but it was Klose's involvement
(and direction) in the fight against the FCC's low power radio
proposal in 2000 which ultimately killed the plan.
Klose, worried about new low-watt community stations drawing
listener donations away from his agency, mounted a vigorous public
campaign against the service. It was his lobbying on behalf of NPR
- and his enlistment of the interests of blind radio readins services
in the fight - that swayed many Democrats on Capitol Hill to protect
the interests of commercial and public radio at the expense of public
diversity on the airwaves.
Not only is it bad enough that NPR programs are now heavily
corporate-sponsored, but even more ironic is that fact that the start
of National Public Radio as a true national media entity came shortly
after the FCC outlawed 'Class D' non-commercial FM station licenses
- licenses for stations of 10 to 100 watts - in the late 1960's. Klose
wants legal low power radio to stay dead on his watch, and he's
succeeded.http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/HijackingForDummiesTheProminentCIAMediaOfficialsWhoTargettedPacificaByAlexConstantine.htm