http://12bytes.org/articles/exposed/npr-national-public-radio-or-national-propaganda-radio
My friends insisted that i listen to NPR and so i gave it a whirl. It wasn’t long before i concluded that National Public Radio is little different from any other government or corporate owned mainstream news com regarding mainstream media, i know full well that unbiased, relevant topics of the day are not going to be dealt with in any objective and granular manner on FM radio anymore than they would be on mainstream television. To understand why this is, one must understand who owns mainstream media , who sits on their boards of directors, and the relationships those board members have with other corporations.
Media Ownership
Almost all of mainstream media – television, radio, publishing companies, the music and film industries – are owned by an ever dwindling number of extremely wealthy and influential, multinational corporations, the number of which has fallen from around 50 to just 5 in the last 20 years or so and the mergers continue. A few hours of research on your part will shed some light on why, for instance, a particular mainstream media company with defense contractors sitting on its board has little incentive to inform the public about devastating human and environmental consequences that depleted uranium weaponry has caused, and continues to cause, in the middle east , as well as other locations around the world that the U.S. and its allies choose to inflict “democracy” upon.
Media Ownership Graph - 1983-2004
2011 Media Ownership Chart
2011 Media Ownership Chart
Not biting the hand that feeds you
As they say, “follow the money”, and researching the NPR money trail leads to some interesting places.
– Lockheed Martin
From an article at socialscience.com titled Campaign to make NPR accountable for representing Lockheed-Martin over the people i found the following:
My friends insisted that i listen to NPR and so i gave it a whirl. It wasn’t long before i concluded that National Public Radio is little different from any other government or corporate owned mainstream news company. Here’s why:
Red Flags
The simple fact that NPR broadcasts on the FM band raises the first red flag of many to follow. Because of my earlier extensive research regarding mainstream media, i know full well that unbiased, relevant topics of the day are not going to be dealt with in any objective and granular manner on FM radio anymore than they would be on mainstream television. To understand why this is, one must understand who owns mainstream media , who sits on their boards of directors, and the relationships those board members have with other corporations.
Media Ownership
Almost all of mainstream media – television, radio, publishing companies, the music and film industries – are owned by an ever dwindling number of extremely wealthy and influential, multinational corporations, the number of which has fallen from around 50 to just 5 in the last 20 years or so and the mergers continue. A few hours of research on your part will shed some light on why, for instance, a particular mainstream media company with defense contractors sitting on its board has little incentive to inform the public about devastating human and environmental consequences that depleted uranium weaponry has caused, and continues to cause, in the middle east , as well as other locations around the world that the U.S. and its allies choose to inflict “democracy” upon.
Media Ownership Graph - 1983-2004
2011 Media Ownership Chart
2011 Media Ownership Chart
Not biting the hand that feeds you
As they say, “follow the money”, and researching the NPR money trail leads to some interesting places.
– Lockheed Martin
From an article at socialscience.com titled Campaign to make NPR accountable for representing Lockheed-Martin over the people i found the following:
NPR: “We never forget who we’re working for”
Millions of dollars from Lockheed-Martin, Wal-Mart, big oil
On October 26, 2002, over 100,000 people came to the Vietnam Memorial in D.C. to protest U.S. foreign policy, mainly the coming attack on Iraq. Organizers and those on the ground said there were over 200,000 people. UPI, Washington Post, and L.A. Times all estimated that over 100,000 rallied. Meanwhile, on National Public Radio, Nancy Marshall was on the scene, and reported, “I’d say there were fewer than ten thousand.”
She also reported that protesters agreed with Bush that “we need to do something in Iraq.” Thousands of protest signs (see below) with slogans along the lines of “Regime Change in U.S.” and “Stop U.S. terror,” clearly showed that the majority of protesters think “we need to do something” in the United States, not Iraq. Its also hard to imagine that she actually found a protester who said they would support U.S. to “ratchet up sanctions.”
Following is a transcript of the audio file:
This is NPR, National Public Radio. Support for WAMU is provided by Lockheed Martin. Bringing criminals to justice is more important than ever. Advanced systems developed by Lockheed Martin help Federal agents get the job done faster. Lockheed Martin: we never forget who we’re working for.
This made me wonder about the kind of reporting NPR has done on Lockheed Martin in the past, so i headed back to their website. As you can see for yourself, NPR appears to have almost nothing negative to say about one of the largest defense contractors on the planet which, considering Lockheed helps fund NPR and/or its affiliates, is not at all surprising.
make of this what you will....not much media to trust out there for us pawns
tough to enjoy the Cher bread/circus divertissements with certain knowledge that the average gube is gonna be in for a very rude awakening when the warlord with whom he's cast his shield is
nothing but fodder next big geopolitical shift, perhaps put into motion as a result of a biosphere that has been overwhelmed......ambient seems to kick in, so if any other thoughts result, feel free.
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