National Public Radio Still Sucks
For the past three or four days I have turned on “All Things Considered” during the evening commute, just to see if it was as biased as I found it to be three years ago when I stopped listening to it. The third story, after an excellent piece on the Skilling Enron cross-examination (go Feds!) and a good one on the conviction today of former Illinois governor Ryan on all counts, was an interview with a “presidential historian” to discuss presidents and their relationships with their subordinates. In particular, if there was any precedent behind Bush’s support of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
The historian said, “No.” He then went on to characterize the growing restlessness with Rumsfeld to “failure in Iraq”, saying that if we were succeeding no one would be gunning for Rummy. I’ll paraphrase the rest of the interview: “Vietnam. Vietnam. Vietnam. MacNamara, Johnson and Vietnam. Vietnam. Vietnam. Nixon and Vietnam. Vietnam. Vietnam. Truman, MacArthur and Vietnam. ”
Well, I suppose balance from an academic is like expecting a jihadi to say something nice about a Jew. So, for those of you who haven’t checked out NPR lately.
Move along. It’s still a biased pit of anti-Americanism that really, really needs to get its funding cut off.
Chad:
I’d say about 75% of NPR news is good hard fact, but then they mix in the opinion pieces which screws up everything.
I’ll give them props for one thing: introducing me to the music of Neko Case.
18 April 2006, 7:03 amRichard Neva:
The reason why NPR All Things Considered still sucks is that it is spiked with Bush rejects and Bush trained gestapo propaganda ministers! Fact; During Herr Bush’s inaug when we gathered to protest the travesty of such an event NPR did not even cover the story of us and all the eloquent speakers! I stopped listening then and occasionally I will tune in but the format is lying pig news like all the rest!
25 October 2006, 8:35 pm