Mr. X from Planet X

On October 21st 2007 Fox News sponsored a GOP debate in Florida. If you read blog posts, you’ve probably got the impression many people don’t trust Fox 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 GOP Candidates Take Aim at Each Other (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 argue NPR would be covering Dennis Kucinich if they actually had a liberal bias and wanted to support true liberals.  As of date of this post, if you do a Google search on NPR for “dennis kucinich site:npr.org” you get just over 500 hits.  If you do a Google search for “hillary clinton site:npr.org” you get nearly 2000 hits;  “barack obama site:npr.org” well over 2000.  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 publicly funded radio program we need neutrality from NPR to counteract this problem. We don’t appear to be getting it.

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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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Hillary Clinton said on NPR today that Barack Obama has been hypocritical. Hillary brought up voting for The Patriot Act as an example.

Maybe Hillary never claimed to be against The Patriot Act. NPR failed to point out (I’d believe this is important) Hillary voted for the Patriot Act the first time it was enacted, and she voted for the reauthorization of The Patriot Act. So did Obama

H.R. 3199 US Patriot Act Reauthorization Act of 2005

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