I used to think NPR reported the news in a fair way, for intellectual people. That is the image they like to project. But in the last couple years I have caught them doing all kinds of dirty tricks in their news shows. One slick trick is to completely ignore Ron Paul even when he wins a poll, and pretend some other guy won. The entire mainstream media is doing that too, but it was especially blatant right after the Iowa poll. The BBC is also very bad about this.
Another dirty trick is to mention something unpleasant in the same breath as someone they want to make look bad. This involves running two stories back to back, the first one being the person they want to make look bad and the second one being the unpleasant story; and they don't even pause for breath so if you're not paying close attention you think it's the same story; or unconsciously you associate the guy with the unpleasant thing. With this trick, they have complete plausible deniability, but to me it's classic NLP jedi mind tricks. I have caught them at it a couple times. (I wish I could remember the specific instances).
Monsanto was funding NPR for a while around 2010 and NPR Marketplace was parroting Monsanto’s agenda by having a guy named Pedro Sanchez from Columbia University on their show who was pushing big agra ideas of increased use of pesticides and fertilizer being the solution to world hunger. This was a violation of FCC regulations. http://www.naturalnews.com/032868_NPR_Monsanto.html
DHS is sponsoring programs at NPR now, and announcing it with little public service announcements for E-Verify. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2008/12/why_is_the_department_of_homel.shtml
I would like to end this article with a parody of the usual NPR identification that you can say whenever you hear them say it:
THIS.....Is Not The Truth!
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