• Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    They had some high up intelligence official on the program to talk about how dangerous havana syndrome was with zero push back from the reporters.

    man, fuck NPR.

    • wifom [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      They ran a segment probably every hour for a month straight on the Cuba "protests" in 2021. They are probably the biggest propaganda peddlers when it comes to anywhere our state department considers an enemy

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I typically have NPR as the default station in my car, usually plugging my phone in for podcasts and music and only hearing it when I unplug my phone. Those Cuba reports motivated me to find some other station because even in 10 second increments it was just sending me down a doom spiral.

        • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Haha this is me but I kinda live for the 30 minutes a day I'm in my car absolutely mad as shit because of whatever bullshit Nina Totenberg is saying

            • notceps [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              If I had to guess family was jewish and poor in now germany. A lot of jews were 'given' a family name and if you didn't pay off the right people they'd give you a shitty name.

            • fanbois [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Digging into some German Wikipedia reveals several places, usually forrests, called Totenberg with disputed naming origins. F.e. totus, latin for all,everything and related Germanic roots. references to deserted, "dead" places or towns, names like Dodo, Toto, Teito.

              So "person from that one place named after Dodo" is at least equally likely in origin. Etymology is weird.

            • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              idk there's a finding your roots with her though if you wanna watch and report back to the class: https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/about/meet-our-guests/nina-totenberg

        • spectre [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I started driving in silence in early 2016 cause I didn't have any CDs and they wouldn't stop playing clips of Trump talking on the daily. Finally got a car with aux like 2 or 3 years later.

    • Beaver [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      US propaganda is so powerful that you don't even have to directly pay the propagandists or give them direction, they just do it for you!

      • SweaterWeather [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        That’s the real wild part to me. They’re doing it purely for the love of the game.

    • Juice [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I remember when they had Elliot Abrams on Fresh Air, soothingly explaining why its not good that we have to invade Venezuela, but Maduro is a dictator, so we really kind of have to.

      Or on wait, wait, don't tell me, one of the news stories was about a new "super accurate" missile, and they all started riffing about how it flies right next to whoever it is supposed to kill, and then ninja swords pop out of the warhead and chop the target up, just roaring laughter.

      NPR makes me seethe, more than Fox (which is worse) because Fox is 24/7screaming sensationalism, NPR is practically subliminal the way they manufacture consent. So many good people listen to it every day thinking they are getting their info from a good source, but its the same tap

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        NPR is just so civil and polite, how could they be feeding me misinformation??