Re: Nader critique of NPR

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 14:18:52 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > it just shows that it fills a vacuum, that commercial news went so 
 > far downhill that there is no time for something better
 > 
 > https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/17/npr-at-50-straying-from-its-civic-mission-2/

"NPR often describes the personal plight of people in poverty or suffering
 from other deprivations, but rarely probes the structural causes or the
 role of concentrated corporate power in creating the problems."

I think this is true of all news outlets, including newspapers and so on.

His critique of elections coverage is spot on.  It may indeed be a large
contributor to depressing voter turnout.

"national obituary on Ramsey Clark".  I thought we did hear something?
Maybe his local station didn't broadcast it.

A lot of the accusations in this opinion piece are a bit unfair.  However,
the general lack of social and economic structural analysis is problematic --
and, I include KQED in that.  I think NPR has become the Pravda in the
United States: you must read between the lines to extract any real news.