Media Coverage of the NPR Fiasco

[LauraC]

Have you seen the way a lot of the media is slanting the NPR story?

Remember when Van Jones was outed (at the time he was working in the Obama administration) for being a self-avowed Communist? He was on tape saying he was a Communist, making fun of conservatives and on the record for being a 9/11 truther? Only, when the mainstream media reported the story they made it sound like the reasons he was out of a job in the dead of night was because he made fun of Republicans and was a 9/11 truther. The mainstream media didn't mention the self-avowed Communist part. They didn't show the tape of Valerie Jarrett saying "they" (Obama's people) had their eye on Van Jones for a long time (except, oops they must have missed the Communist thing).

So, now we have "the NPR guy is gone" story by the mainstream media and guess what many aren't mentioning? The Jewish/Muslim Brotherhood factor. It's all about the NPR guy Shiller maligning the tea party. Really? That was Schiller's problem?

Headlines

The Associated Press/Washington Post: NPR Blasts Tea Party In Hidden Camera Video.

Associated Press: Departing NPR executive slams tea party on hidden camera, fueling conservative ire on funding

USA Today: "The NPR executive who was caught on a secretly taped video calling Tea Party supporters "racist" and saying the news organization would be better off without federal funding resigned late Tuesday night."

Uhhh, how about "NPR guy, Who Met With People He Thought were With The Muslim Brotherhood and said Zionists have obvious control over newspapers, leaves NPR."


"An undercover video of a departing National Public Radio fundraising executive shows him nodding in agreement as men posing as representatives of a Muslim Brotherhood front group rip Jewish control of the media. Eventually, the President of the NPR Foundation and VP for development, Ron Schiller chimes in, saying that Zionist influence doesn't exist at NPR, but 'it's there in those who own newspapers obviously.'"

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Departing NPR Exec Laments Jewish Control of Newspapers

Slanting news stories in this country, these days, appears to me to be more about omission. Downplay the whole Muslim Brotherhood/Jewish thing and make it all about the tea party.

USA Today IS STILL NOT MENTIONING the Muslim Brotherhood/Zionist comments part of this story:

"NPR has announced that CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned. Schiller is not related to former fundraising chief Ron Schiller, who was caught on a secretly taped video blasting Tea Party supporters as "racist" and saying the public broadcasting outlet doesn't need federal funding."

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...ral-funding-/1


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[flyphish56]

I'm in agreement with all you've said and would like to point out that the same media outlets that failed to mention the Muslim Brotherhood connection are out ranting against Rep Peter King, Republican from New York, because he dares to try to investigate the existence of radical Islam in this country.
'Mazin' ain't it.

[Superhorn]

Much ado about nothing. It's ridiculous to call for "defunding" NPR,PBS and the NEA etc. They barely get a pittance from the U.S. government.
Our government wastes more money in one day on the futile and disastrous Iraq war than it"wastes" on NPR in a year.
"Defunding " it would save virtually no money at all. This is just part of the way conservatives(really reactionaries) want to silence any one who has the nerve to disagree with them.
O'Keefe is guilty of entrapping NPR.He is a scoundrel, and nothing but a scoundrel. This nation has infinitely more important matters to deal with than "funding" for NPR.

[flyphish56]

Defunding " it would save virtually no money at all.

It has nothing to do with the amount of money saved and everything to do with what it is spent on.

O'Keefe is guilty of entrapping NPR.He is a scoundrel, and nothing but a scoundrel.

I don't recall seeing ANYONE holding a gun to Schiller's head to get him to say a single word of his insane rant. You obviously eat the progesive pablum and drink thier koolaid. You have a marked disinterest in fact as evidenced by your unwillingness to try and rebutt posts debunking the blather you write here.

[telemachos]

In response to Superhorn:

Since he believes that NPR only gets a "pittance" from the federal government then perhaps he wouldn't mind if Glenn Beck got an equal amount.