Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Will NPR Now Officially Change Its Name to National Propaganda Radio?

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Will NPR Now Officially Change Its Name to National Propaganda Radio?

Click here to access article by Edward Curtin from his weblog.

Curtin satirizes NPR whose board has selected its president with a background in propaganda. This is not the first time that NPR has selected its president among people who have backgrounds in overt propaganda like Voice of America, Radio and Television Marti, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. This is a consistent policy throughout its history.

Worst of all, according to a Wikipedia statement: "A Harris telephone survey conducted in 2005 found that NPR was the most trusted news source in the United States." I don't doubt this. I think NPR, as a single propaganda media outlet, is responsible for the ignorance of US foreign policies and much of our domestic issues. It exists legally as a public-private corporation, but much like the Federal Reserve this arrangement also serves to fool the public with its public facade.

The fascist Deep State using their secret organization, the CIA, has transformed nearly all major media corporations here and abroad into propaganda platforms to support the profit and power interests of the USA and US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. As a major source of fake news and analysis, I have followed NPR over the past 10 years of my weblog and have posted numerous articles and commentaries about this nefarious organization. You can learn much about this propaganda agency by simply typing in "NPR" in any of the search boxes on my website to access them.