Sure, public broadcasting has made its share of mistakes, and there have been times when we who practice our craft under its aegis have been less than stalwart in taking a stand and speaking truth to power. But for all its flaws, consider an America without public media. Consider a society where the distortions and dissembling would go unchallenged, where fact-based reporting is eliminated, and where the field is abandoned to the likes of James O'Keefe, whose "journalism" relies on lying and deceit.I understand the desire to save NPR. Uncensored public media is important and necessary in every country, but especially in America because the corporate mainstream media has failed the public and betrayed America's values. NPR is a thousand times better than Fox News and other propaganda media channels, but NPR is losing credibility and popularity for a very good reason: it doesn't speak the truth. NPR is going down the rat hole along with the rest of the mainstream and corporate media because it has refused to challenge the official 9/11 myth, and the basic premises in the criminal war on terrorism. NPR's employees are either treacherous propagandists or gutless cowards who don't want to speak the truth about 9/11 and the true intentions of America's presence in the Middle East.
America's public and corporate press has failed the country, and humanity. Saying that NPR should be saved because it is better than Fox News is not a good defense. Both organizations should be flushed down the toilet of history, along with every other media organization in America, Canada, and Europe. The shameful media in the West has wrongfully covered up facts and ignored evidence that reveal that the 9/11 attacks were committed by the governments of the United States and Israel, not Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.
Also, a moral defense of NPR is utter lunacy. News organizations that suppress facts which would help heighten public understanding of the underlying reasons for the wars in the Middle East are suppressing public resistance to these wars. Whether it is by accident or not, NPR is helping to maintain popularity for criminal wars because they censor evidence that proves 9/11 was an inside job. It deserves to be shut down because it refuses to tell the truth about 9/11 to the American public.
This cannot be stated enough: Shame on NPR, Shame on PBS, Shame on Fox News, Shame on The New York Times, Shame on CNN, Shame on CBC, Shame on every newspaper and mainstream media channel in Canada, America, and Europe. The Press has failed us, and turned their backs on truth, and justice.
There are only a handful of honest and credible Western journalists around. John Pilger is at the top of the list. He is doing heroic work year in and year out because he has not lost sight of the importance of truth and the honor code of journalism. But we need more journalists to speak the truth and support a new criminal investigation of the 9/11 attacks. Maybe a couple of good journalists can save the profession but I'm not counting on mainline journalists to tell the truth all of a sudden. Once a coward, always a coward.
I hope journalism will be saved because it is the only check against power in society. But it won't be saved so as long as journalists timidly and cowardly follow the government line about the most important events of our lifetime, and the most important events in history. It is sad that so many conformists join the journalism profession and so few outsiders like Hunter S. Thompson. But, the future is not hopeless. The Internet has made agencies like the NPR and Fox News less powerful, and less relevant. It is because of the internet that the truth about 9/11 is so widely known in America and other countries in the West.
Let NPR and other media dinosaurs collapse. They told lies and covered up government crimes, which is why they are collapsing. I have no sympathy for those who defend official myths, spread government propaganda, and denounce truth-tellers as "conspiracy theorists." They have crippled the public conscience by abandoning truth, and justice. Credible and honest voices and media organizations will take their place. In fact, the process has already begun. The reason for Alex Jones's popularity on the Internet is because he has told the truth about 9/11 since day one. He is an authoritative voice who cares about truth and justice. Do the cowards at NPR care about truth and justice? No. They shouldn't be referred to as journalists at all because they are not journalists. Instead, we should call them government bureaucrats because they manage public opinion and inject the news with poisonous mainstream myths like "9/11 was committed by Al-Qaeda."
One of the reasons why there are very few real journalists today is because there is a lack of knowledge about the role of a journalist in a free society. Thankfully, there are individuals like Glenn Greenwald who are doing their best to fill the gap, and write objectively about world events and politics.
Author and journalist Albert Camus gave a clear definition of what a journalist is in his article "The Reform of the Press," written in September 1, 1944:
What is a journalist? He is first of all a person who is supposed to have ideas. This point deserves special scrutiny and will be dealt with in another article. He is also a person who every day takes it upon himself to inform the public about the events of the day before. In short, he is a historian of the moment, and truth must be his primary concern. Yet every historian knows that even with distance from events, comparison of documents, and testimony from different witnesses, truth in history is an elusive thing. The only thing he can do about this state of affairs is to offer an ethical corrective in the form of a concern with objectivity and prudence.Journalism has its heroes such as Albert Camus, I.F. Stone, Hunter S. Thompson and Edward R. Murrow who inspire new generations of young journalists, which is why I believe it will survive. I think a new age of honest and objective journalism is around the corner. But we should let government media like NPR collapse. I'm sure Fox News will collapse too once the dupes who watch that channel finally figure out that they've been betrayed and conned by the disgusting traitors and war propagandists who run that media organization. The sky won't fall if these media organizations go completely bankrupt. A world without the New York Times, NPR, and Fox News is a brighter, and more hopeful world.
How urgent these virtues become, therefore, in the case of the journalist, who is deprived of any distance from events and unable to check all his sources! What is a practical necessity for the historian becomes an imperious law for the journalist, a law he cannot violate without turning his professional activities into acts of wickedness. (Camus at Combat: pg. 24).
