NPR is news for people who are okay with war and genocide as long as the paperwork is filled out correctly.

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Public radio is a vital service and it’s one I support completely. But NPR is not public radio. It is a soothing chorus for liberals who do not know their calming, educational drive to work every morning is being orchestrated by the ideological tyranny of corporate capital.

I’ve listened to NPR for years. Like all corporate-funded media outlets, not once did its coverage call into question the imperialistic drive of US foreign policy decisions. Such a glaring omission of critical questioning is not “objectivity,” it’s bias in favor of the powerful.

NPR’s rep as a liberal outlet can only exist within an overall media universe that’s extremely far-right in its framing of economic and political policies.

Think: NPR has a daily show called Marketplace. Does it have any companion program about the labor struggle? No.

The omission of a real labor section in most corporate-owned MSM outlets (NPR included) is just one of hundreds of examples of the silent but powerful dogmas of “objective” centrism. These dogmas quietly dictate American audiences’ sense of what has news value and what does not.

Why is it that there’s no dedicated Labor, Climate, Housing, or War section in any of our MSM outlets? These issues impact vastly more readers/viewers than the stock market does, but the latter gets more press than those previous 4 categories combined. That is a conscious choice.

Why is it that so many Americans watch and read and listen to the news every day, and so few have even a decent understanding of capitalism or imperialism? Why do we have the most politically illiterate population in the world while having the most-watched 24/7 “news” of anyone?

TLDR - If you’ve gone your whole life considering yourself fairly well-informed, and you’re not ignited with rage by the inhuman marauding our oligarchy has unleashed on foreign nations and its own people throughout this century and the last, NPR is likely a major reason why.