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Because it's already a state-media propaganda apparatus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States)#CNN_and_NPR_interns_incident ht

• gbrown 7y ago
  NPR 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 ago
    Claiming 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 ago
      I'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 ago
      Access 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.
      • alrs 7y ago
        Terry Gross' excellent and astonishingly comprehensive interview of each and every member of the E Street Band.
  • alrs 7y ago
    I don't think you're disagreeing that it's state media, so at worst I'm at 50%. BBC, RT, France24, Deutsche Welle, PressTV, and Telesur all exist to promote a state interest. How are NPR and APM different? https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/25/npr-the-cia-and-corporatism/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/25/npr-the-cia-and-corp...
    • gbrown 7y ago
      Comparing the BBC to RT demonstrates the complete emptiness of your claims. Certainly, publicly funded media sources can be expected to have inbuilt biases, but to pretend that institutions with editorial independence should be compared to actual propaganda outlets which have actively participated in centrally orchestrated and well documented disinformation campaigns is ridiculous.
      • alrs 7y ago
        BBC World Service and RT are absolutely comparable. Both are very obvious in pushing the agenda of their state sponsors. If you want subtlety, watch France24 English. If you want the propaganda arm of a dying empire, BBCWS is for you. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/bbc-fake-news-181122134554312.html https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/bbc-fake-news-1811... http://oro.open.ac.uk/36441/ http://oro.open.ac.uk/36441/
• wyxuan 7y ago
  Doesn't it say that it only happened in the 1990s? Where's the evidence that it has continued?