An Open Letter to NPR On Covering Wall St. Protests

[Swede]

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Congratulations. You finally got around to doing a story about the Wall Street protests last night on "All Things Considered," after 11 days of ignoring them. What a disgraceful decision to have avoided coverage for so long, and having your ombudsman try to mitigate that dopiness by noting that you covered the demonstrations via several AP print stories and blogs on your website. I thought you were in the radio business. I must have been mistaken.

The ombudsman quotes your executive news editor explaining all the days of non-coverage this way: "The recent protests on Wall Street did not involve large numbers of people, prominent people, a great disruption or an especially clear objective."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandy-goodman/npr-occupy-wall-street_b_986021.html

[qb]

1. NPR has been owned by the RW for years.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Sadly for America, that is true

NPR is just another RepubliCon, Inc. propaganda catapult

[Overseas]

2. Good letter. K&R.

[KansDem]

4. Need to correct the ombudsman's remarks...

"The recent protests on Wall Street did not involve large numbers of people, prominent people, the Tea Party Express, a great disruption or an especially clear objective."

They need to be more careful...

[ret5hd]

5. Boy, they didn't have any problem covering "Moneyball" tho...

Several interviews preceded by days of telling us about the upcoming interviews all while saying the word "moneyball" as often as possible.

I'm afraid to turn on PBS, 'cause they'll probably have soda cans turned label towards camera, etc.

[RufusTFirefly]

6. National rePublican Radio

I continue to be amazed by friends who should know better who still think they are getting a "liberal" perspective when they listen to NPR.

That may have been the case a quarter century ago, but ever since the Gingrich Congress, NPR has been moving steadily toward the right.

I get my news from Democracy Now specifically and from Pacifica in general.

[femrap]

7. So does

Brad Pitt have to show up? And a clear objective....such as Banksters steal from taxpayers....that isn't clear enough for you???

NPR...shame on you.

[Blue Owl]

8. Whereas the Tea Party has been given hours of air time

Have you seen the "large number of people" at the goddamned tea party events?

Keep up the propaganda, NPR. Take pride in your "journalism" or whatever you call it.

[county worker]

9. I don't understand the idea that there should be a clear objective.

It's a rage against the system that is taking the American dream out of everyone's grasp!


If you don't understand that you are dumber than a post!