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Claiming they're a PYSOPS unit is overcomplicating the matter. NPR basically practices access journalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_journalism https:
by 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 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.
- alrs 7y agoTerry Gross' excellent and astonishingly comprehensive interview of each and every member of the E Street Band.