The Bell Finally Tolls for National Propaganda Radio

If you ve reached the stage of calling the Declaration of Independence a document that contains offensive language, you probably shouldn t be working as a guardian of national public radio. If a private outlet feels the need to go there, mazel tov, but the federal government shouldn t be issuing Surgeon General s warnings for its foundational ideas. If it is doing that, it s probably appropriate to wonder what s behind that messaging imperative.

I m not a particularly patriotic person I doubt there s a flag in my house but I don t think taxpayers should be funding an endless hit piece on the national experiment, either, especially one that sounds like a word-for-word replay of old Soviet campaigns ( Five Shames on the Conscience of America! ). Where is this coming from? Why are so many people in positions of influence in a superpower suddenly so keen on letting the air out of the national tires? Whatever it is, NPR is its most visible symbol, and needs to take a rest for a while, at least until the government settles on a formula for producing media without didactic political instruction. Good night, Big Bird. It was fun while it lasted.

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Matt Taibbi.

Read the whole thing. I miss NPR from the 1970s. After that, it went into a bit of a decline.