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On October 21st 2007 Fox News sponsored a GOP debate in Florida. If you read blog posts, you have probably got the impression, that many people don’t trust they way Fox reports news. Robert Greenwald with Brave New Films even did a film called Out Foxed.

Do people have a false sense of fair reporting from NPR? Next to NPR’s failure to cover the anti War Protests of October 27th 2007, I find this the most telling piece of news coverage NPR has ever done.

On October 22 NPR broadcast a misleading story by Mara Liasson: GOP Candidates Take Aim at Each Other (note there’s link on their page to listen to the broadcast).

If I hadn’t actually watched the debate, I would have thought nothing of it. But having actually watched the debate, I was left in total shock after I listened to the NPR report. Was the radio station I once trusted and donated money to skewing news coverage beyond belief?

Listen to the NPR program (it’s only 4 minutes long), and then watch these news clips.

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Mara Liasson managed to get the name Hillary Clinton in every sound bite. She never mentions Ron Paul’s name once. I have heard some people say this is a liberal bias. I would argue NPR would be covering Dennis Kucinich if they were truly liberal and wanted to support liberty. Mara Liasson also contributes to Fox News.

If anyone has watched Orwell Rolls in his Grave, they know Michael Powell (Colin Powell’s son) got rid of equal access laws for political candidates when he was head of the FCC. As a public radio station we need neutrality from NPR to counteract this problem. We don’t appear to be getting it.

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This is a fascinating film. The one problem I see is they focus too much on conservatives being responsible for the controlled mass media–but not entirely. Conservatives are defiantly not angels, but it was Bill Clinton who brought us NAFTA. Hillary Clinton voted for the Patriot Act, the Iraq War, and both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama voted for the Reauthorization of the Patriot Act.

Diane Feinstein (Democrat) and Orren Hatch (Republican) worked together (and probably still are) to give the telecommunication companies retroactive immunity against lawsuits for warrantless wiretaps. NPR did a story on this issue, but there was something I found odd. I started hearing, “This program was sponsored by AT&T” and then the coverage dropped off.

As they mention in the documentary Joseph Gerbils said “What you want in a media system” and he meant the Nazi media system “is ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity.”

For a documentary that gives a more in depth and non biased perspective watch The Century of Self

Orwell Rolls in his Grave provides the following information and then some:

According to the nonpartisan congressional Budget Office: between 1979 and 1997, income for families in the middle rose 9% from $41,000 to $45,100, while income for families in the top 1% rose from $420,000 to $1,016,000 — a 140% increase.

Why has the response to a rise inequality been a drive to reduce taxes on the rich?

A CNN/Gallop Poll conducted March 2003, found that 61% of the American people thought Saddam Hussein as personally responsible for the September 11th attack. Out of the 911 hijackers 15 of the 19 where from Saudi Arabia; the others were from Egypt and Kuwait [all us allies]. How did the American people get such a distorted view of who was behind the attack of 911?

Five months before the 2000 Election Governor Jeb Bush moved to purge 57,000 people from the voting rolls, supposedly ex-felons. Florida’s Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, was Bush’s campaign manager. The Governor is his brother.

CBS News killed the story on the basis of a denial by Governor Jeb Bush, who was the TARGET of the allegations.

From George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”
… and the sheep bleated
“4 legs GOOD, 2 legs BAD.”

… and then they bleated
“4 legs GOOD, 2 legs BETTER.”

Bush keeps rallying to get rid of “The Death Tax.” Bernie Sanders points out that only 2% of the population is even rich enough to pay estate tax, yet the American people have been duped into thinking there is a death tax that’s plaguing people in the US.

Michael Powell (son of Colin Powell) was head of the FCC. Michael Powell said free Air time for candidates is:

“… unconstitutional and an infringement on the broadcaster’s free speech rights”

“.. have no idea what the public interest is.”

“The oppressor here is regulation.”

For more information, watch

Orwell Rolls in his Grave

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NPR pointed out on the February 26th 2008 debate that Hillary Clinton said Barack Obama’s health care plan looks like it was written by health insurance companies. There’s additional information on this NPR could have provided.

Has anyone ever seen the movie Sicko? Requiring everyone in American to buy a health insurance policy is just what health insurance companies want–even if the government has to pay for it. It strikes me as odd people don’t see this is just like the Medicare bill pushed through by Billy Tozan. That’s what Hillary Clinton wants to do and what Mitt Romney did Massachusetts. Michael Moore has posted the health lobby campaign contribution info on his web site. Clinton was top and Romney was second last time I checked, but it looks like Barack Obama has moved up to second place.

If you agreed with what Michael Moore had to say about health care, you would have wanted to read up on Dennis Kucinich, but you would never find out about his plan’s or policies from NPR.

That’s what really determines how electable a candidate is–whether or not the media tells you a candidate is electable. Does the media choose to give that candidate any coverage. If you watch Orwell Rolls in His Grave, you find out there is no longer a legal obligation to give candidates equal air time.

NPR mentioned people are concerned about NAFTA, (a law passed by the Clinton’s) but they never mention why:

We have already seen the devastating effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in Massachusetts. According to conservative estimates, more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in the last decade alone. Nationally, at least 3 million jobs have been sent offshore, and the wage gap continues to expand.
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Our trading partners have suffered, too - with huge increases in inequality and massive displacement. For example, at least 1.3 million Mexican farmers have lost their livelihood under NAFTA. As a result, the number of annual immigrants from Mexico to the United States surged from 332,000 in 1993, the year before NAFTA went into effect, to 530,000 in 2000 - a 60 percent increase.

NPR didn’t mention the war in Iraq, but here’s an interesting bit of information NPR never mentions. Hillary Clinton has received more money from the Weapons Industry than any other Presidential candidate, and that includes Republicans.

For Republicans Ron Paul has received the most money in campaign contributions from people enlisted in the military. For Democrats Barack Obama has received the most campaign contributions from people enlisted in the military. You can Google this and find article after article. Here’s an article that was published in the Huffington Post

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The PBS documentary Buying The War hosted by Bill Moyer, is an excellent documentary on the controlled media.

We can’t expect the mainstream media to be critical of it’s self, but luckily we have Bill Moyer to do it for us.

Bill Moyer interviews people like Bob Simon who had been stationed in Iraq and walked the streets of Baghdad.

Mr. Moyer also interviews the authors of a variety of books on the news coverage leading up to the Iraq war:

• James Bamford author of A Pretext for War
• Michael Massing author of Now They Tell US
• Norman Solomon author of War Made Easy
• Eric Boehlert author of Lapdog

There are a couple of interesting connections to make from this film.

One, is William (Bill) Kristol is mentioned as being one of the political pundits who convinced the American People there was a connection between the Iraq, Saddam Hussein and 911. William Kristol is the chairman of Project for the New American Century.

Two, is Michael Gerson was Bush’s speech writer who helped convince the American people there was a connection between Iraq, Saddam Hussein and 911. Michael Gerson left his position as a speech writer for Bush to write for the Washington Post. At the time WP was laying off journalists. All you have to do is Google Michael Gerson to see he is indeed writes for the Washington Post and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, AKA CFR.

Rather than take my word for it, watch Buying The War and judge for yourself.

I would like to make the suggestion that if you watch the video on PBS’ web site, and find it important, consider making a donation as I have. Bill Moyer won’t be able to continue his work, if we don’t support him.

If you don’t think you agree with Mr. Moyer, at least watch the video before forming an opinion. You can’t credibly dispute an issue (although many people try) unless you have actually examined the material so you know what you’re disputing.

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