Borscht! The B.S. about BIAS at NPR is
180 degrees OUT OF PHASE.
It’s like the Reichstag fire deal!
NPR is completely GLEICHGESCHALTET,
sure! dump NPR , not because it’s “lefty”,
but because it’s an arm of the fascist media
empire!

I’m not surprised by Steve Inskeep’s assertion that
NPR attracts “a politically diverse audience of 33.7
million weekly listeners.”

It’s easy to find on the radio dial when driving
almost everywhere in the country, and partial
coverage of the news is sometimes more entertaining
than no coverage at all.

And I do value some of the work by some of the NPR
reporters, such as Bob Garfield or Nina Totenberg.
But most of the time the perky entertainment efforts
convince me that I’m better off listening to nothing.

NPR daily omits coverage of important news events,
and most of the analysis comes across as pandering to
the propaganda needs of their corporate backers.

Listen to Robert Siegel’s pathetic 1/18/2011
interview with Timothy Geithner, for instance. The
entire charade was a setup routine designed to
further promote corporate disenfranchisement in the
guise of “intellectual property,” a lump term for
various other disparate legal categories, such as
copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrets, and so
on. In any case, there are a lot of excellent
arguments out there for why we shouldn’t fall for
this IP nonsense, but what I notice over and over is
that NPR defaults on the side of the corporate
capital, and rarely supports workers, students,
antiwar causes, etc.

If I want real audio news, I stream Democracy Now,
Free Speech Radio News, Counterspin, Making Contact,
Alternative Radio, or Al Jazeera, among others.
Likewise, I read from a wide range of sources on the
internet - ProPublica, Truthdig, Counterpunch,
Commondreams, Reuters, Guardian, Independent, Der
Spiegel, Antiwar.com and so on.

After scanning all this material, NPR sounds to me
like a huge waste of time, and although they salivate
over elections, their coverage scandalously serves to
speed the narrowing of the primary fields, again, by
omission, while the demonstrations outside the
conventions seem to never really happen.

As for morning news anchors, Steve Inskeep is simply annoying. His jokes are
lame and he comes across as a narcissist. He’s his
own favorite anchor, but all he’ll ever really do is
remind a lot of us how much better Bob Edwards was.