Could someone please put NPR out of it's misery?

[defacto7]

What NPR has become online is journalism at it's absolute worst; I call is essay rather than journalism because it's "pick and choose" facts, and way too much personal opinion in reporting. Frank James is no more a journalist than a he is a Democrat, and I actually have no idea what his affiliation is. His right leaning is so blatantly twisted it just make you wonder who is paying NPR these days that their politics has become so skewed. It's not nearly as bad on the air, but online Frank James does most of the political blogging or reporting whatever you want to call it, and he finds any way possible to trash Obama especially through cynical manipulation of the facts. He has no scruples that's for sure.

One example, and there are many...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/10/10/162658971/i-was-just-too-polite-says-obama-vowing-to-hit-hard-at-next-debate?ft=1&f=1001

Read it for how it is portrayed. Analyse it for it's "point of view" rather than it's news value. This kind of thing is what moves the public's mood and opinion using a rather subliminal agenda, in my opinion.

[Iggy]

1. You Mean National Pentagon Radio??

NPR is more or less useless now...

it was all downhill, IMHO, once they started taking big corporate money-- what? over twenty years ago?

the most egregious example being the hundreds of thousands of dollars they took from ADM-- who had
just been busted by the federal gov't for price fixing-- of lysine, I believe.

not long after the federal indictment/fine-- the largest in our history at the time; warm and fuzzy ads about
ADM appeared on NPR.

weak, very weak.

[tarheelsunc]

2. Mitt Romney can do that!

I don't understand why NPR would show such bias, especially when they are biased TOWARDS the man who will kill them, it seems extremely stupid.

[just1voice]

3. You just described the very definition of propaganda

As defined by Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

"Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.

As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political or religious agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare."

[defacto7]

8. Funny thing...

In my last sentence of the OP, I used the word "agenda".... I originally wrote the word propaganda and changed it. Propaganda is definitely the right word but I second guessed whether it would sound too sensational. I should have left it.

[Blue Idaho]

4. National rePublican Radio?

It's ok - right after they help Rmoney get elected he will utterly destroy them. They won't last past his first month in office.

[NBachers]

5. Cokie Roberts and her sneering contempt for President Obama makes me retch and feel like vomiting

"Cokie Roberts" and "vomit" are two words I often associate together.

[SoapBox]

6. Ditto

I stopped listening during the 2010 elections (I think) but I was disgusted during the 2008 run.

Steve Inskeep, MEEEEchell Norris, Cokie Roberts, Mara "I work for FUKS NEW" Liason...I could not take the "snark"
out of any of them any longer.

So...kiss off NPR.

(Even though I don't listen any longer, one of the local stations does do really good local programming and I feel a bit
guilty about abandoning them...but...oh well. I like the DU better!)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. You know the most fucked up thing? These morons either don't realize or don't care

that the people who's ass they continue to suck will be the first to put them out of the job.