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Smarmie Doofus

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8. Doesn't it take $$$ from sources w. an agenda?

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #6)

Thu May 2, 2013, 08:28 AM

May 2013

Example: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Doesn't it then provide ostensibly "objective" reporting on issues ( example: school privatization/"reform"/corporatization/ "accountability" .... whatever one wishes to call it) in which funders are hugely invested --- both emotionally and financially?

If not... I'll send 'em money too.

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This Is NPR [View all] xchrom May 2013 OP

That's not what the TAL piece argued at all Recursion May 2013 #1

I recall hearing part of the piece Sherman A1 May 2013 #2

That was the third act, about the consultants who do that for states Recursion May 2013 #3

I listen to the podcast every week, and heard this one very differently than the author of this OP. mahina May 2013 #4

''...Social Security is privatized toast.'' DeSwiss May 2013 #5

Yet another hit piece on NPR without the assistance of facts... TreasonousBastard May 2013 #6

Doesn't it take $$$ from sources w. an agenda? Smarmie Doofus May 2013 #8

You mean the Gates Foundation that's... TreasonousBastard May 2013 #9

So, the answer is "yes". Smarmie Doofus May 2013 #10

Good luck finding that. TreasonousBastard May 2013 #14

a decade ago NPR got a $150,000,000 lifetime endowment from the Croc family (McDonalds) librechik May 2013 #12

NPR has been horrific lately... but this has topped it off for me. stlsaxman May 2013 #7

Adam Davidson’s Journalistic Corruption: NPR Host Shills for Wall Street, While Taking their Money MinM May 2013 #11

That wasn't my take at all. AngryOldDem May 2013 #13