What is wrong with NPR???

[garybeck]

I can see how all the corporate media is ignoring the voter fraud story, because they're all in bed with Bush and his tax cuts.

But NPR's coverage has been equally horrible. Has anyone theorized what is going on there?

thanks
gary

[tx_dem41]

1. I'll take a stab....umm...they're corporate media too?

Do I win?

[Duncan]

7. No doubt (n/t)

[gennifer6]

2. Local NPR station has been covering voter fraud

quite well in Cleveland.....just had an hour long show on it today, I think "Morning Edition."

[jamboi]

4. Cool, maybe NPR is thawing. Wouldn't be suprised. I think yesterday change

d the landscape for the left and some of the center too, so lets see what happens.

[jamboi]

8. Bingo! Found that broadcast! Here it is:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4225107

[Buzz Clik]

3. Not everybody thinks that the fraud actually occurred.

NPR is very careful about not running with rumors until there's solid verification. They give teasers about the investigations all the time and talk about it tangentially, but they won't do a hard-hitting story until it is clearly verified.

It's frustrating in some ways, but we don't need NPR to be the broadcast version of Drudge.

[garybeck]

10. funny how they...

... gave Bush a huge megaphone for all his lies during the campaign and never really said or did anything about it.

Is there a difference between not reporting something because you're not sure if it's true, and allowing someone to come on your broadcast and blatantly lie and not calling them on it?

I say no.

The excuse that the story isn't "verified" holds no water. The charges alone should warrant coverage.

Do they wait until the superbowl is over to cover it?

I think that whatever is up in MSM is also up in NPR.

[lukasahero]

17. "they won't do a hard-hitting story until it is clearly verified."

Where have all the reporters gone? Isn't investigating it's veracity their job?

[Chimpanzee]

21. It's not a rumor that

suits are being files, congressional hearings are being held, etc.

[HEAVYHEART]

5. I wish someone could tell me!

I used to look forward to listening to NPR after getting off work, on the road.. But lately, I've been totally turned off. I still tune in to see what they're talking about but I always end up turning the channel now.

[Moochy]

6. National Pentagon Radio

They practice he-said-he-said journalism. Most issues they cover they treat with an almost pathological "even-handedness" that refuses to follow up on false statements, overstatements, or just plain lies.

It also seems that the rolodexes of NPR reportters are overflowing with the radical conservative think tanks. The delicate ecology of the inside the beltway pundit requires no difficult questions.

Here's another indicator of the big-money ethics of PBS radio, they gave Tucker carlson his own show. That in and of itself was not an issue, as much as how it was spun by the PR folks as a victory for conservative forces, and lending some "balance" to the left leaning PBS.

[dogman]

9. Check out its' Board of Directors.

Chairman ran Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty under Bush 1.

[Quakerfriend]

11. Yes, I heard they were bought by the right ~ one yr ago

[peacetalksforall]

12. They cut a deal with the devil...it happened when Burton and GIngrich

Thurmond and Helms stopped raving maiacally about NPR.

They threatened to take away government spending and make the public pay all...except big corporations have always underwritten parts of the funding.

NPR went from center (imo) to a far right. Pity. Another mis-use of our public airwaves - I'm speaking of news and news opinions. Their non-news hosts are still OK with me (for now).

[McCamy Taylor]

13. federal funding?

[rumpel]

14. This is what is happeninng to the media

http://www.isi.org/cn/about/history.aspx

[New Earth]

15. it's not voter fraud

it's.........


election fraud..........




*sigh*

[Lisabtrucking]

16. People are dieing, Another suicide yesterday of a person who

stood up against the goverment. Hmm kinda scary wouldn't you say?

Investigative Reporter Gary Webb Who Linked CIA to Crack Sales Found Dead of Apparent Suicide
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/13/1457240

[MarkusQ]

19. The one that amazed me...

Was the University of Georgia Survey Research Center guy who was looking into the mismatch between the polls and the results, and then suddenly decided to go to New York City, break into the World Trade Center site, shoot himself at close range with a shotgun, and hide his body where it could only be seen from the roof of a nearby hotel. What an odd way to kill yourself, I thought at the time, but since no one questioned it I assumed that must be what happened.

Yeah right.

--MarkusQ

[Lisabtrucking]

20. This administration is one of the largest corrupt party's ever, and

it will be written into the history books as being such.
I am so amazed at the ignorance in this country. I can totally understand now how Hitler became powerful.

[rumpel]

18. Here is a better explanation

http://www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200412020822.asp

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