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G Harkness's avatar

The worst of it is NPR. They take their line DIRECTLY from what they're told to say. And people consider them to be a "trusted" source. Disclaimer: though I don't watch ABC, CNN etc., I do listen to at least 30 minutes of NPR every day to find out what the next "big" thing is (that I can know is what the government wants us to believe).

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MLL's avatar

NPR is the worst but look at their sponsors... The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for example. All media is captured by big pharma, too.

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John Goode's avatar

Yeah, all those Foundations & NGOs are part of the corrupt deep state. Charity can happen on an individual basis. But institutionalized charity is not a thing. It is just a front. A cover. A dodge. A hustle. Ford Foundation. Carnegie Foundation. Do you think the founders really cared about "the people"? And even if they did, do you think those who run them now care?

Repeat after me: Large organizations do not care about you. They are just that - organizations. They do not love. They do not hate. They do not feel. The people who run them will do whatever they think is in their interests. The trick is to try to align the leader's interests with the broad interests of society. Currently that is definitely not the case with the leaders of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Or the leaders of NPR. Or Pfizer, for that matter.

Related:

https://www.sgtreport.com/2021/11/belarus-leader-alexander-lukashenko-defends-shutting-down-liquidating-scum-globalist-ngos/

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G Harkness's avatar

I have never thought that these organizations had any component of "caring." I always just thought of them as a way for very wealthy people to legally avoid certain taxes. And while doing so, manage to do something that is in the best interest of the owners. :-)

But then again, I never thought that any of them SHOULD do anything "for the people," or that they owed "the people" anything. I just think they should do what they say they are doing, instead of saying one thing and doing another.

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Alfred's avatar

They're a bunch of grifters, sucking dollars in and then using said dollars towards their social agenda. And since they're seen as oh-so-virtuous they can get away with all sorts of chicanery without consequence.

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IvyRose's avatar

yeah, like murder of millions...

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Stephen Simac's avatar

Their wealth is shielded from taxes, so actually they do owe 'the people', just as "not for profit" public hospitals do. Unfortunately they aren't held to account.

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G Harkness's avatar

I hear what you are saying and I donтАЩt necessarily disagree, but I do a whole lot better when I live my life as though no one owes me anything. :-)

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G Harkness's avatar

Oh, I know. That's why I listen to them. Have to keep up with what the opposition is doing. Otherwise we won't know.

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John Goode's avatar

Yep, NPR and PBS are bad. But the fact that CNN & MSNBC spew the same line just goes to show that the latter are not really "private."

Imagine if in 2024 we could vote for the head of NPR. i.e., if the actual editor-in-chief of NPR was on the ballot right beside Biden and whomever. And he/she had to campaign about whether to allow more dissenting views on NPR.

Imagine the same thing for CNN & MSNBC.

Now that's what I call real democracy. Couldn't be worse than what we have now.

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Shy Boy's avatar

Wrong way out. Let the Mockingbird media die with its remaining dupes. Younger people don't notice TV talking heads or newspaper pundits anyway. "News" was always a lie, anyway. We'll be fine without it. The information marketplace will sort it out.

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G Harkness's avatar

Yeah, I don't disagree. It's just that I don't have a TV so I don't watch any of those others (and wouldn't if I could). I listen to NPR in my car.

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Stephen Simac's avatar

National Pharmaceutical Radio

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Annie Today and Tomorrow's avatar

I believe getting out in the streets with "boycott the lying media " signage may be the way forward. ЁЯдФ

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SomeChick's avatar

Yes. To think I used to listen to NPR all the time in the car. Now when I turn it on, all I hear in the news segments is vaccine propaganda.

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