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I have mixed feelings about this, since on several NPR podcasts Exxon has sponsored and advertised their carbon capture investment, despite it being a greenwash
by diafygi 7y ago
I have mixed feelings about this, since on several NPR podcasts Exxon has sponsored and advertised their carbon capture investment, despite it being a greenwashing campaign that comprises such a tiny percent of their overall new investment.
How can NPR not ultimately be captured by corporate interests with for-profit sponsorships?
- krapht 7y agoProfessional ethics and integrity, plus occasional review by an ombudsman? Same as many other vocations...
- sidlls 7y agoI enjoy their non-journalistic shows, e.g., "A Prairie Home Companion/Live From Here" and "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", but not enough to donate when I know the money is also going to pay for their "journalism", and especially not when they clearly prefer the (fatter) checks from the corporations. But professional ethics? Fox News, MSNBC, and those other infotainment gutters are bad, but NPR is insidious: it's biased toward the class of established political powers and corporations, like a Pravda for America but dishonest about it.
- wyxuan 7y agoJust because they run sponsorships, doesn't mean that they are automatically going to do whatever it takes to make their sponsors look good. I think they do a good job of being objective and have a good track record for being highly factual.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoActually that’s exactly how I interpret the ads. How else is there?
- alrs 7y agoBecause it's already a state-media propaganda apparatus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States)#CNN_and_NPR_interns_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...
- gbrown 7y agoNPR is not perfect - in particular, I have some issues with the artifical equivalency between our two major parties implied by NPR interview programs. With that being said, your claim is 100% complete and utter bullshit, unsupported by even your own source.
- sidlls 7y agoClaiming they're a PYSOPS unit is overcomplicating the matter. NPR basically practices access journalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_journalism) and claims not to.
- alrs 7y agoI'm trying to find the old story from when NPR got caught re-using VoA propaganda (which was then a violation of federal law), but instead found this, of a similar vintage: https://fair.org/media-beat-column/npr-floats-an-ombudsman-but-problems-run-deep/ https://fair.org/media-beat-column/npr-floats-an-ombudsman-b... EDIT: Ah, here is some remnant of the story. NPR was using a VoA reporter to push the State Department line on Haiti: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amelia_Shaw https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amelia_Shaw ...and here is her LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-shaw-82421a29/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-shaw-82421a29/
- crispyambulance 7y agoAccess journalism ?? Oh, you mean Terry Gross' excellent and astonishingly comprehensive interviews with virtually all movers and shakers of the last 3-4 decades? That's what I like about NPR the most. Prairie home companion, wait-wait don't tell me... BORING. it's time to change the station.
- wyxuan 7y agoThey always preface stories that involve people who have sponsored them in past by stating that they have sponsored them. Plus, they've been sponsored by many other organization, such as Earth Law Center (something like that). Does that mean that they are captured by them too?
- sidlls 7y agoIf a politician prefaced every speech with "Politicians lie" does that absolve the speaker of accountability for lying?