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NPR: yesterday donald trump took to the stage to 'savage' Hillary Clinton (Original Post) spanone Jun 2016 OP
Yep, they said it, but didn't say that he really did anything. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #1
I disagree. It is their job to fact check mucifer Jun 2016 #4
And he lied poorly. MoonRiver Jun 2016 #2
they grilled Amy Klobuchar over Hillary's ability to be President based on trumps bullshit. spanone Jun 2016 #3
Yah, I heard that too and was yelling at my computer!!!!!! a kennedy Jun 2016 #11
m$m.. sos Cha Jun 2016 #5
^^^!^^^ spanone Jun 2016 #7
.. Cha Jun 2016 #10
IMO one thing that stops this is what you are doing rufus dog Jun 2016 #6
Morning MSNBC has totally changed their tone... tallahasseedem Jun 2016 #8
as has been mentioned here many times, GWB destroyed NPR when Cheney was president. Gabi Hayes Jun 2016 #9
 

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
1. Yep, they said it, but didn't say that he really did anything.
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 09:28 AM
Jun 2016

It isn't up to NPR to fact check. They let their audience decide for themselves, which is what they should do.

spanone

(135,855 posts)
3. they grilled Amy Klobuchar over Hillary's ability to be President based on trumps bullshit.
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 09:35 AM
Jun 2016

never once questioning if trump spoke the truth or not....

if they are going to question Hillary based on trumps lies, they damn well better fact check

a kennedy

(29,686 posts)
11. Yah, I heard that too and was yelling at my computer!!!!!!
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 10:52 AM
Jun 2016

That was just the worst interview taking tRumps lies as truths.

 

rufus dog

(8,419 posts)
6. IMO one thing that stops this is what you are doing
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 10:01 AM
Jun 2016

The MSM tries to push B.S. memes in each cycle, and there ability to successfully sell them is being hindered by the internet.

Now there is immediate blow back which hinders the ability for the b.s. meme to stick.

tallahasseedem

(6,716 posts)
8. Morning MSNBC has totally changed their tone...
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 10:11 AM
Jun 2016

now saying Trump is back on track and doing the right thing. It's disgusting. We have a major fight all the way to the finish.

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
9. as has been mentioned here many times, GWB destroyed NPR when Cheney was president.
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 10:13 AM
Jun 2016
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022135384#post31

and, hahahah. I just found this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3925195

"In a move roughly akin to the ACLU hiring a CIA director for its president, National Public Radio named the czar of American broadcast agitprop as its CEO. Kevin Klose has been director of the US International Broadcasting Bureau, which runs or coordinates all major American broadcast propaganda, including the Voice of America and Radio Marti. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia operate under the oversight of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the same body that supervises IBB. Kevin Klose was president of Radio FreeEurope/Radio Liberty from 1992 to 1997. Prior to that, he worked for many years for the Washington Post.

The choice raises new questions about the independence from government influence of the public radio network, which is already tied by purse-strings to Washington and has shown considerable deference to the White House in its coverage of the Clinton scandals.

This is not the first time American media and propaganda have been seamlessly joined. In 1976, the president of the CIA-connected Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty was former CBS president Sig Mickelson. Ironically, one of the few journalists who raised questions about the relationship of the media and the CIA--to the detriment of his career at CBS--was Daniel Schorr, now at NPR. Carl Bernstein, in a contemporary article in "Rolling Stone, "estimated that 400 American journalists had been tied to the CIA at one point or another, including such well-known media figures as the Alsop brothers, C.L. Sulzberger of the"New York Times," and Philip Graham of the "Washington Post." Later the "New York Times" reported that the CIA had owned or subsidized more than 50 newspapers, news services, radio stations, and periodicals, mostly overseas.

And, says "NameBase Newsline," at least 22 American news organizations employed CIA assets, and "nearly a dozen American publishing houses printed some of the more than 1,000 books that had been produced or subsidized by the CIA. When asked in a 1976 interview whether the CIA had ever told its media agents what to write, William Colby replied, 'Oh, sure, all the time.'"
http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/99-12%20WINTER/npr....
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