Anybody hear NPR's piece on Office of Special Plans? Where were they..

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

a year ago? I'm sick of this "after the damage is done" reporting!!!

[kcwayne]

1. I am ending my contributions to NPR

I think they structure their analysis around the need to keep funding flowing from the government. If I want to listen to government propaganda, I can get it for free.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. I think it's their corporate underwriters that they pander to..hey, wait

that is the Government, my bad!!!

[NC_Nurse]

5. They ran a

big piece on ADM's corporate crimes and they are one of "All things considered's" corporate sponsors...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. so what are you saying?

they're not afraid to shoot their paycheck in the foot? I'd need more examples then that to trust them more (PS I do support them - Wait, Wait, Don't tell me is hilarious)

[NC_Nurse]

4. They don't get

funding from the government. Maybe they dropped the ball on this, but they're still the most independent news org of any size that mainstream folks listen too. I'm continuing my support.

Not that I haven't been disappointed with them too, they seem to have gotten lazier. Here in NC, however, they broadcast the BBC World News which is infinitely more objective. You gotta like that!

[G_j]

12. BBC plays all night

then "morning addition" comes on. It's embarrassing how cowardly and compromised our version of the news sounds on comparison.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. I feel the same way about the Guardian's website

They ain't scared of squat

[kcwayne]

14. They certainly do get funding from the government

NPR funding

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets 380 million a year from the fed. NPR is saying on their website that they get a very small part of that money. I am not sure. But a couple of years ago, before the right wing starting griping about NPR being a federally funded leftist organization, they did not claim they didn't get money, they just said they were not getting a major portion of the CPB money. Now they are saying it is miniscule, but now it looks like corporations and foundations are 98% of their funding. And their funding sources depicted in their report are very confusing, which is typically an indicator of creative accounting going on.

If they were truely independant, they should have been all over the lies of the Iraq war, the Patriot act, and the Medicare debacle. They were not.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. Corporate for Public Broadcasting and NPR are two different things

CPB has to fund big budget TV stuff like PBS's Frontline, Nova, Sesame St, Telatubbies, etc (not that they are the sole promoters) but NPR says they only get about 8% Gov't funding. THEY SHOULD BE MORE IHARD HITTING. I understand in England things are quite different, though their libel laws are harsher.


http://www.cpb.org/about/funding/whopays.html

[Corgigal]

3. Happen to hear it this morning

and while I don't normally listen to NPR, I know the New Yorker Magazine talked about the Office of Special Plans and Cheneys office for quite awhile now. You can never get your news in one spot now a days.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. Agreed - I read that New Yorker piece

I get my news from several internet sources. I peosonally love NPR I just don't trust them to really push the envelope the way, say Mother Jones does.

[NC_Nurse]

8. Maybe they'll get braver

now that they've gotten $200million from Ms. Disney's estate.

[chelaque liberal]

10. Isn't it Mrs McDonald's?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. It was Ray Kroc - the guy who bought McDs and made it the cancer it is

His wife, that is. It was twice their annual budget and it was put in an endowment (so we will still have pledge drives :( ) Maybe that will afford them some more spine. If you listen to Marketplace always be aware that it's main sponsor is GE, aka Satan. There openening theme used to even include GE's jingle.

[chelaque liberal]

9. NPR is "flawed" but....

They do some good stuff too.
Fresh Air/Terry Gross. Last week she did some excellent shows. One was on Halliburton.

[buckeye1]

16. The first real reply.

I like NPR and the Koolkids can just stuff it. If you don't like it quit whining.

[randr]

17. I have heard reports on the OSP

numerous times on NPR. I recall they did a story when the office was created way back when. It is the responsibility of the people to make their concerns known to their representatives and it is useless to shot the messenger.