About NPR and PBS
Consider its former head, Kevin Klose, its current president emeritus.
He was president from December 1998 - September 2008, then CEO from 1998 - January 2009.
Earlier he was US propaganda director as head of Voice of America (VOA), Radio Liberty, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, Worldnet Television, and the anti-Castro Radio/TV Marti. As a result, he fit seamlessly in his new role.
Corporate executive Gary Knell is current president and CEO. NPR's anti-populist tradition continues, disserving its 34 million listeners daily.
Created by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) calls itself "a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress...and is the steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting."
"It helps support the operations of more than 1,100 locally-owned and-operated public television and radio stations nationwide, and is the largest single source of funding for research, technology, and program development for public radio, television and related online services."
Like NPR, it's heavily corporate and government funded, and provides similar services in return. Under George Bush, former Voice of America director Kenneth Tomlinson was chairman of CPB's Board of Governors. He lasted until an internal 2005 investigation forced him out for malfeasance.
Bush appointee Patricia Harrison now heads the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. An insider like other PBS and NPR officials, she earlier co-chaired the Republican National Committee. In 2001, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs under Colin Powell.
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/new...omise-npr-pbs-a-war-mongering-propaganda.html
As for freedom in the U.S...... An article from CNBC--not the most radical liberal network out there!!
With more than 2.3 million people locked up, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. One out of 100 American adults is behind bars – while a stunning one out of 32 is on probation, parole or in prison. This reliance on mass incarceration has created a thriving prison economy. The states and the federal government spend about $74 billion a year on corrections, and nearly 800,000 people work in the industry.
From some of the poorest towns in America to some of the wealthiest investment firms on Wall Street, CNBC’s Scott Cohn travels the country to go inside the big and controversial business of prisons.
We go inside private prisons and examine an Idaho facility nicknamed the “gladiator school” by inmates and former prison employees for its level of violence. We look at one of the fastest growing sectors of the industry, immigration detention, and tell the story of what happens when a hard hit town in Montana accepts an enticing sales pitch from private prison developers. In Colorado, we profile a little-known but profitable workforce behind bars, and discover that products created by prison labor have seeped into our everyday lives — even some of the food we eat. We also meet a tough-talking judge in the law-and-order state of Texas who’s actually trying to keep felons out of prison and save taxpayer money, through an innovative and apparently successful program.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44762286
The prison/industrial complex in the U.S. is outpacing the former Russian gulag. Many of those within the walls of county jails are kept their indefinitely awaiting trial dates. Many others, guilty or innocent are encouraged to plea bargain down to a lesser charge in exchange for a lighter sentence, if they can't afford a lawyer.
Make Argentina look a bit better? There may be only one thing worse than the Argentinian 'lack of policing' state and that is an economic symptom so reliant, as the U.S. is on waging constant war, not only against foreigners but against it's own people.
This show, article, featured by CNBC, will take many viewers in the U.S, by surprise and repulse them. However, too large a percentage will be high fiving with their compatriots and wondering how to
play it and where they can get the best yield.
Argentina is having terrific organizational, ideological and philosophical problems, but the U.S. is sick in the soul. That's not something that can be easily turned around.
