[posted on Huffington post on Kovalik's blog, but I was forced to break it into two parts and remove the links, and it will probably never get past moderation and onto the screen. Nice to have free speech here!]
I read Daniel Kovalik's article "The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment" on Counterpunch a couple of days ago, in which he says... "There is little chance you heard about any of this [horrific atrocities he just described]when you picked up your newspaper to read this morning or tuned into NPR. This is so because these events did not take place in Syria, where the U.S. is ramping up its plans for military intervention to topple the government... Rather, these events took place in Colombia which has received billions of dollars in aid from the U.S. since 2000, and where death squads aligned with the state the U.S. is funding are carrying out most of the atrocities.... Thus, while I listened last week to the NPR reporter (based in Beirut, Lebanon, but purporting to describe events in Syria) passionately speaking on behalf of Syrians who, the reporter claims, see the armed resistance as their "protectors," I did not hear any reporter based in South America weeping for the countless victims of our client state of Colombia...." An excellent article, well worth seeking out:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/12/the-selective-compassion-of-the-media-human-rights-establishment/
Ironically, or perhaps not, perhaps "inevitably" is a better word, today, I heard a total fluff piece from NPR's man in Columbia. He could report on the crimes Kovalik discusses, but instead we get "Cruising Over Colombia In A Plane From Another Era... By aviation standards, the DC-3 is antique. But it's perfect for travel in Colombia's remote parts."
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/13/148520410/cruising-over-colombia-in-a-plane-from-another-era
One (apparently more regular than me) listener commented "Stories like this are why I listen to and am a member of NPR!!! Just think if all the people that listened to Rush and Glenn and watched faux news, If they tuned into NPR just think of how different things might be!"
It's stories like this that cause me to avoid NPR and to listen instead to Democracy Now! - if all the people that tune into Faux News tuned into NPR instead, think of how much things would be the same! Same propaganda, just presented in a bit drowsier fashion. NPR, home of fire-breathing lefties... like Garrison Keillor.
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