Reply #39: NPR does not stray out of the Beltway Box on anything important [View All]

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-like politics, war, economy. My steam point is always Cokie Roberts and Maura Lyerson repeating exactly what I read reported here as the current talking heads babble (I don't watch the talking heads and rely on DU to keep up with what they are saying) and NPR calling it "analysis" - I suppose because they drawl it in those world-weary voices and use words of more than one syllable. On anything related to economics they they never challenge whatever Neo-Con spew is the day's talking point.

Their reporting on the stimulus was worthless and seemed to consist near entirely of letting Republicans repeat their idiotic talking points without challenge. They have time for trite "commentaries" and endless little feel-good stories but next to none for labor news. Your example - framing the options as wage-serf taxpayers assuming all or a little less than all of those poor investors' losses(can't have the upper 1-3% taking the fall for their own greed, now, can we?)is a perfect illustration of their typical frame. National Propaganda Radio indeed.