Paul Craig Roberts
PrisonPlanet.com
September 4, 2012
Does anyone remember when National Public Radio was an independent voice?
During the 1980s NPR was continually on the case of the Reagan
administration. NPR certainly had a Democratic slant, and a lot of its
reporting about the Reagan administration was one-sided. Yet, NPR was an
independent voice, and it sometimes got things correct.
In the 21st century
that voice has disappeared, which was the intention of the George W.
Bush regime. Bush put a Republican woman in charge who made it clear to
NPR producers and show hosts that the federal part of their funding was
at risk.
Money
often over-rules principle, and when corporations added their really
big money NPR collapsed. Today the local stations still pretend to be
funded by listeners, but if you have noticed, as I have, there are now a
large number of corporate advertisements, disguised in the traditional
terms “with support from . . .” If you are not listening to classical
music, you are listening to corporate advertisements.
Today the entire “mainstream media” is closed to truth-tellers. The
US media is Washington’s propaganda ministry. The US media has only one
function–to lie for Washington.
What reminded me of NPR’s surrender was NPR’s August 31 report with
its two regular talking voice political pundits discussing the Republican
Convention and Romney’s speech. After witnessing the Republicans at
their nominating convention at Tampa violate all their own rules and
ride roughshod over the Ron Paul delegates, one expected some discussion
of the Republican Party’s refusal to allow Ron Paul to be placed in
nomination or his delegate account to be announced.
The operative question was obvious: How can the American people trust the Republicans
with the awesome power of the executive branch when the Republican
Party just finished demonstrating for all to see its Stalinist qualities
by crushing the anti-war, anti-police state wing of its party.
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