NPR Check

Hello NPR Checkers and anyone stopping by for a look. I think it's time for a final post to NPR Check.  For the first several years of this blog I posted nearly every day, and then began slowl...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2012/06/lights-out.html

NPR related comments, critiques and observations are always welcomed.

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2012/03/q-tips.html

Last Monday (3/19/12) on Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep and Sylvia Poggioli presented a casebook study in NPR's contempt for popular democracy and its use of false equivalency to smear leftists...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2012/03/fair-and-balanced-from-1-radio.html

The graphic comes courtesy of the Planet Monkeys . Thanks!  Seems like the stupider you are , the more willing your are to shill for the uber-wealthy , the more you praise exploitation a...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2012/03/1-whisperer-on-poor-countries-their.html

On February 22, 2012, when Jake Tapper, ABC senior White House correspondent , asked how the Obama administration's praise for serious journalism in Syria could "square with the fact that this a...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2012/03/eyes-of-mara.html

NPR related comments, critiques and observations are welcomed and encouraged.

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2012/01/q-tips.html

A Belligerent Signal - from The Mirror (UK) As usual, Glenn Greenwald has an excellent post on the distorted coverage by the US mainstream media regarding the latest assassination of a...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2012/01/assassinating-english-belligerent.html

NPR related comments, critiques and observations are welcomed and encouraged.

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/12/q-tips.html

On November 30th the LAPD cleared out the LA Occupy encampment with a massive police action that was hailed in most mainstream media outlets as being peaceful and well-conducted.  Being a de...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/12/largely-peaceful-police-state.html

NPR related comments and critiques welcomed and encouraged.

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/11/q-tips.html

The few times I've listened to NPR lately, I've noticed something interesting.  Instead of examining how deliberate US policies and practices of the last 40 years (and most dramatically of t...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/11/suck-it-up-from-npr-suck-ups.html

So the bloated , murderous US military juggernaut celebrates war-making with a college basketball game on board the aircraft carrier, USS Vinson.  Does NPR offer any counter-narrative to...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-this-country-does-best.html

NPR related comments, notes and critiques welcomed.  For new readers, I have been posting far less frequently in the last year, but - through the efforts of contributors - Q Tips continues to ...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/10/q-tips.html

Irony is Dead (UPDATE below) The latest spam in my inbox from my misguided friends at Free Press wants me to get a sticker  (see graphic on the left) so I can show people how devoted I am...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/10/show-your-support-for-your-enemies.html

NPR has hired a new CEO .  His name is Gary Knell and he has been the CEO of Sesame Street Workshop. He starts his new gig at NPR on Dec. 1 Sometimes it's just best to let reality speak fo...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/10/q-tips-and-puppets.html

NPR gives the tiniest blip of airtime to dissenting views of the blatantly anti-Constitutional and illegal assassination of US citizen, and terrorist suspect, Anwar al-Awlaki.  Most of NP...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/10/natural-born-killers.html

NPR related comments welcomed and encouraged.

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/09/q-tips_29.html

Anthony Bologna - NYPD thug (UPDATE BELOW) As readers have commented in the Q-Tips section below, NPR is following the rest of the police state media in offering ZERO on-air coverage of...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/09/police-brutality-shielded-by-npr.html

NPR related comments welcomed and encouraged.

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/09/q-tips.html

When hard evidence of the criminality of US officials in torturing, disappearing, and torturing to death  human beings falls into the hands of the so-called journalists at NPR, you can be ...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/09/npr-coversup-tortureagain.html

Hello readers. I'm putting up a new open thread as the previous one reached the 130 mark! Commenters are doing an incredible job of documenting NPR awfulness. I'm finding that NPR disgusts me ...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/08/q-tips-heavy-lifting.html

NPR related comments welcomed and encouraged.

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/07/q-tips-midsummer.html

I made the mistake of listening to NPR for about 15 minutes this morning and got to hear Andrea Seabrook present a Bart Simpsonesque explanation of debt economics . Here's Andrea: > "...so i...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/07/npr-loves-it-some-dumbness.html

If you missed it, Dean Baker takes NPR to the woodshed yet again . Readers of this blog will notice the familiar NPR pattern of "he said - she said" reporting, a complete disdain for facts, and a...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/07/dean-bakers-beat-press-smackdown.html

NPR related notes and comments welcomed. I've currently been posting about once a week, and I anticipate posting far less over the summer months. I'll open a new Q Tips/open-thread post anytim...

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2011/05/q-tips-summer-break.html