Sunday, December 30, 2012
End of 'glasnost'
For several years NPR seemed to be on the verge of opening the door to reality, on the verge of becoming a neutral news organization. They were occasionally able to give all sides of important issues, able to respect religious people, and once in a while even allowed an actual fact to leak through.
Something happened about six months ago that closed the door firmly. Since then NPR has returned to pure Stalinist-Satanist propaganda, on the same crude harsh brutal level as cable TV. Fags are good, banksters are wonderful, commies are angelic, civilization is bad, religion is evil, "Global Warming" causes everything.
One piece this morning seals the door shut with a resounding clang. A heartfelt overmodulated celebration of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as unjustly accused "victims", with no quarter given to facts. Radio Moscow circa 1965 would be proud.
Too bad. I was supporting NPR for a couple years, but now I can hardly bear to listen.
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... And this evening they're doubling down on genocide, letting Comrade Bill McKibben destroy what little remains of science.
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Couple weeks later: I halfway retract the harshness. The change isn't permanent; it's solely dependent on who's in charge. More precisely, it depends on Scott Simon. When Simon is in charge of the weekends, we get rationality, good hard questions, and neutral coverage. He was absent for a few weeks and the commie bullbitches took over. Now that he's back, rationality is back on the weekend broadcasts.
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