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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
That’s the real wild part to me. They’re doing it purely for the love of the game.
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
NPR is just so civil and polite, how could they be feeding me misinformation??
I listened to npr for decades,, getting increasingly angry, befor giving up entirely in 2016.
Wear your state-affiliated tag with pride!
...unless there's something to be ashamed about being associated with the state? :amerikkka:
I will faithfully profess the values and principles of the state, defend its actions, read its press releases and ruthlessly attack its enemies irrespective of their actions. But if you DARE imply that I'm affiliated with it, you've broken the sacred kayfabe of journalistic independence and are an enemy of democracy, which is also a completely neutral process which is working fine.
Here at NATIONAL PUBLIC Radio we are in no way affiliated with the state
It's so funny how whipped NPR is, dutifully carrying on with their task even decades after being defunded by the state.
They're sort of like MLB, in so far as they aren't receiving significant amounts of state money but they ARE periodically dragged up before Congress for whatever bullshit reason the current legislature/president can think of.
"falsely labeled" what fucking babies. frankly you'd be correct to label every single major US media outlet as state media, whether they receive direct funding or not.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the major media outlets receive much more funding than NPR lol.
"We don't receive state funding, we receive funding from sources that receive state funding." As if that doesn't make it more suspicious lmao
"we receive lesz than 1% of our funding from public sources" "our member stations receive 14%" :thonk:
i stg liberals literally lack object permanence, play enough of a shell game with money it just magically loses where it came from
same reason most of them are fine with citizens united, oh it went through 6 right-proper money boxes before it went into a politician's pocket how could it be a bribe???
And the 14% doesn't count funding from universities, which is state funding with an extra step
"If you really think that the government has no influence on the entity they're funding then you've been marinating in the Kool-Aid for too long," Musk wrote to Allyn.
:heartbreaking:
A former Twitter executive who was involved in crafting the guidelines told NPR that the deciding factor in whether to issue the designation was whether an outlet had editorial freedom. The labels, the former executive said, were intended to give users context that a tweet they are seeing may be propaganda.
Also, I'm sorry then how did The New York Times never get this designation? How many provable examples are needed of the State dept asking editors to suppress a story that makes them look bad, in the interest of national security. It's obviously just picking and choosing publications/govts they like from ones they don't so I don't even know why I'm asking
intended to give users context that a tweet they are seeing may be propaganda
propaganda, scary, is when government
truth, comforting, is when capitalist
By going silent on Twitter, NPR's chief executive says the network is protecting its credibility and its ability to produce journalism without "a shadow of negativity."
"The downside, whatever the downside, doesn't change that fact," NPR CEO John Lansing said in an interview. "I would never have our content go anywhere that would risk our credibility."
“I would never have our content go anywhere that would risk our credibility.”
Buddy, it's the content itself that's the problem...
By going silent on Twitter, NPR’s chief executive says the network is protecting its credibility
:virgil-sad:
NPR reports NPR does so-and-so. We falsely accuse so-and-so of falsely accusing us! What the hell is this nonsense?
iridaniotter rejects false claim that they are a featherless biped!
God I hate "journalists"
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national public radio. national public radio. NATIONAL. PUBLIC. RADIO. :matt-jokerfied: WHAT’S NOT CLICKING? DID WE HIT A LINE WHERE ENOUGH OF AMERICA WAS PRIVATIZED AT WHICH YOU ACTUALLY FORGOT YOU WERE A GOVERNMENT ENTITY?! YOU FUCKERS DON’T GET TO THROW A TANTRUM ABOUT THIS!
:joker-troll: IF STATE-AFFILIATED MEDIA APPLIES TO THE PANDA BEAR ACCOUNT, IT ABSOLUTELY APPLIES TO YOU!
:you-worked-for-a-company-that-was-fixing-bread-prices:
you were founded by an act of congress
You're absolutely right, but they'd never see that because it's not about strategy or anything except ego.
The claim they have no affiliation with the state is absurd. Leaving Twitter cedes the ground to Musk's tactics as you said. But especially over the last twenty years these stenographers and wannabe celebrities have absolutely convinced themselves they're not just the guardians of truth, but of democracy, rationalism, and all that's right with the world.
While my interaction with these types might be limited to some in the UK, if you'd never had to listen to them after a few drinks, the level of self delusion and importance they hold would be unfathomable.
