I have heard longtime NPR fans murmer that it's useful to hear what
the other side has to say, and you get that at NPR. Sure, but you can
get that at Fox and CNN, too, but where do you go what you want to
hear the factual truth, or opinion that runs counter to the status
quo?
I used to try to point out flaws in NPR reporting. I can't keep up any
more, it's awful. It's not surprsing the government's radion network
gives you people from the American Enterprise Institute and The
Council on Foreign Relations and The Washington Times (Rev. Moon's
paper, does anybody remember that?) who will repeat the government's
line.
But where do you go if you want to know what is really going on, and
not just the neocon spin on reality?
http://www.gregpalast.com/
http://www.democracynow.com/
and today at http://www.counterpunch.org:
December 14, 2005
A Death Toll Lower Than DC Murder Rate?
NPR Swallows Bush Guestimate on Iraqi Dead
By APRIL HURLEY, M.D.
To: Scott Inskeep
National Public Radio
Dear Mr. Inskeep:
Yesterday, on your National Public Radio Show, Morning Edition, you
asked an "expert" to comment on G.W. Bush's evident ignorance. Your
stooge pundit, Michael O'Hanlon, was satisfied with George's
guestimate that 30,000 Iraqi civilians and combatants have been killed
during 32 months of invasion and occupation. He suggested that G.W's
figure doesn't include Iraqi crime victims. This proposes a mortality
rate for Iraqis from combat alone that is lower than Washington D.C.'s
homicide rate during the year of the latest stats, 2002. A war zone
also safer than Baltimore, Detroit and New Orleans before Katrina.
Perhaps a paid professional at NPR, who isn't busy doing the bidding
of a White House propagandist, would wonder what's wrong with this
picture and do some minimal investigation. Such as the most globally
respected survey, an independent and heroic study on the casualties in
Iraq, peer reviewed and published in The Lancet. A curious child could
get those US city homicide figures and do the math!
I witnessed Shock and Awe in Baghdad and the tsunami of lies
discounting those deaths. The bombing then was brutal and the
occupation since has been a serial massacre. Iraq today is our massive
Guernica. It is obscene that this war president continues in denial
that he has, conservatively, caused the death of 150,000-200,000 Iraqi
men, women and kids. And this after, conservatively again, more than
500,000 died under Clinton's promoting of UN sanctions. How can you
National Public Radio people live with your complicity in hustling
such horrific crimes and distortions about them.
The tangled web of deception spun by NPR must feel like a cocoon for
you by now! I am another outraged listener reminding all of you. We
are an internet-literate audience; we won't tolerate being brainwashed
by our own public airwaves. And the drivel you choose to distract us
with at these critical times will serve to secure your indictment.
Increasingly outraged,
April Hurley, MD
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