Notes and analyses monitoring rightwing, pro-government, corporate bias on National Public Radio News.
Dormant Last read · last published · next check
Read 14 hours ago and current, but nothing has been published for 14 years.
Hello NPR Checkers and anyone stopping by for a look. I think it's time for a final post to NPR Check. For the first several years of this blog I posted nearly every day, and then began slowly cutting back. For the last year I have not posted more than about once a month, and as you can see from the date of the last post - even that modest output has ground to a halt, and I think it's time to call…
NPR related comments, critiques and observations are always welcomed.
Last Monday (3/19/12) on Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep and Sylvia Poggioli presented a casebook study in NPR's contempt for popular democracy and its use of false equivalency to smear leftists. I heard this report last Monday, but was headed off for a vacation and so am posting on it late. Poggioli was reporting on the economic crisis in Greece and how it has upended the political system there.…
The graphic comes courtesy of the Planet Monkeys . Thanks! Seems like the stupider you are , the more willing your are to shill for the uber-wealthy , the more you praise exploitation and income inequality , the more you attack social welfare programs and ignore war spending , then the more likely you are to get air-time on NPR. So, of course, I was suspicious when on Friday afternoon, Mr.…
On February 22, 2012, when Jake Tapper, ABC senior White House correspondent , asked how the Obama administration's praise for serious journalism in Syria could " square with the fact that this administration has been so aggressively trying to stop aggressive journalism in the United States by using the Espionage Act to take whistle blowers to court " - journalists of conscience like Glenn…
NPR related comments, critiques and observations are welcomed and encouraged.
A Belligerent Signal - from The Mirror (UK) As usual, Glenn Greenwald has an excellent post on the distorted coverage by the US mainstream media [including NPR] regarding the latest assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. In spite of official US denial and condemnation of the murder - most experts agree that Israel - and possibly - the US were responsible for the killing (although at this…
NPR related comments, critiques and observations are welcomed and encouraged.
On November 30th the LAPD cleared out the LA Occupy encampment with a massive police action that was hailed in most mainstream media outlets as being peaceful and well-conducted. Being a defiantly mainstream media organization - NPR jumped on the bandwagon of LAPD-love with two features on its November 30 Morning Edition. One involved Renee Montagne interviewing Frank Stoltze a reporter at NPR…
NPR related comments and critiques welcomed and encouraged.
