Frank Deford

It's true, the news/propaganda section of NPR is functionally no better than FOX.

Minor variables exist, but they're meaningless and purposefully fraudulent.

The cultural and entertainment aspects of public radio have a place in my world, I admit.  I enjoy numerous of those types of programs.

But the news analysts, the pundits, the old-hands that are comfortably lodged in public radio's power structure lost credibility long ago.  Listening to them is like listening to a broadcast-reading of a piece of fantasy literature.

They talk of a world I do not recognize.

NPR, like any big news organization, presents a narrow view, creates narrow choices that suffocate humanity, all the while padding the status quo.

The news is easy, made to order for our mindlessness.  Since most people have to be told what to believe, it makes sense to present them with nothing challenging.  Cokie Roberts is a fraud.

She's reflective of the insider status that controls NPR, the beltway miasma, the ongoing power-elite cocktail party that is D.C.

Whenever I hear Cokie Roberts' voice I simply turn off the radio, because I know what I'm about to hear is going to amount to nothing more than a pure con job, something so divorced from reality as to cause you to wonder--is Cokie Roberts sane?

Or to move on after the headier days of Bob Edwards--is Steve Inskeep a complete moron?

You really want to know the best thing NPR has to offer?  That would be Frank Deford.


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