illicitizen

I made the mistake of commenting online at NPR.org about their fake coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protest. They declined to post it citing it as a violation of their discussion standards. Here it is:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2011/09/26/140815394/newsworthy-determining-the-importance-of-protests-on-wall-street

So any Tea Party gathering warrants coverage but a protest with some actual merit doesn’t have enough “important” people or sufficient numbers to get a mention? Yet you ran this: http://n.pr/nzGLn2 Really? You SHOULD be ashamed to cover birthers. I bet you could find a significant amount of people that believe the sun orbits the earth too. We will all be sure to consider that the next time the right wing wants to de-fund all public broadcasting. I cannot believe you put that serial liar David Brooks on time and again and you have given such anemic coverage to this protest. I guess you are with Nixon, we are just a “noisy minority.” The shortfall of this thinking is in that we were also the noisy minority that valued public broadcasting. I don’t go online to read NPR. I listen on my radio. So posting something in the safe recesses of a blog or AP stream is phoning it in. This message was not brought to you by Allstate, Merck, or Archer Daniels Midland. Eric Cavanaugh Illicitizen

Note: The mention of Allstate, ADM, and Merck comes from the NPR Wikipedia entry.