For years I have used NPR (Radio) and BBC (Internet and TV) as excellent news sources because most corporate owned “mainstream” media news sources in the U.S.A. have become lame at best (CNN, NBC, CBS), and outright neo-conservative propaganda machines for their corporate owners at worst (FOX, ABC). About the time the tyranny of Bush and his corrupt oligarchy began pushing for war in Iraq, I had to switch to CBC (Internet), Deutsche Welle (TV), and Pacifica (Radio) for reliable news as even NPR and BBC temporarily became soft on the Bush and Blair administrations during the war.
BBC became pretty reliable again once their funding was renewed, and NPR started being more reasonably critical of Bush after the capture of Saddam Hussein; so I slowly drifted back to my old habit of relying on BBC and NPR for my news. Now I have to re-think that.
Last night’s NPR coverage of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s talk at Georgetown University only mentioned briefly that a “few” students stood and turned their backs on Gonzales, then allowed him several minutes of air time to spread his misleading lies and attempt to justify spying on Americans. I was annoyed at the time, but this morning I am shocked to find out what else they omitted; check it out for your self on BoingBoing and Insomnia’s LiveJournal.
(picture taken from BoingBoing to burn my own bandwidth instead of theirs)
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