[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', '.')..but it's far better than the OTHER crap.

[Dvanharn]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Oil Prices -- The program discusses the recent spike in oil prices with guests including Severin Borenstein, E. T. Grether professor of business administration at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, director of the UC Energy Institute and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research; Joe Sparano, president of the Western States Petroleum Association; and David Sandalow, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, former assistant secretary of state and senior director on the National Security Council staff, and author of the new book "Freedom from Oil."

[IanC]

Could this have something to do with
1. sponsorship and underwriting of the radio show or
2. the government, who foots most of the bill for NPR,not wanting NPR to do stories on PO.

I'm sure most of the people at NPR are very well aware of energy issues and may even be saavy on depletion. I doubt that they are willfully keeping this information off the airwaves. I'll bet if we follow the money (ALWAYS a good idea) we'll find no real enthusiasm for getting the truth about PO out to the public.

Peak Oil, Depletion, and Collapse will always be the Greatest Story Never Told.

-Ian
Portland

[kjmclark]

I gave up on donating to my local NPR stations when I realized that by
"listeners" they meant car commuters with radios. The whole "driveway moments" BS turned me off.

So, if you thought your primary audience is solo commuters, would you want to make them question their commute? I don't see that many of us cyclists or pedestrians (or even bus riders) listening to the radio on our way to work. We can't, with all of the motorists paying more attention to their radios than to the road.

[IanC]

kjm,

Great point. I hadn't thought of that. A lot of the liberal-guilt-ridden commuters already are rationalizing their commutes and consumptive lives. Why antagonize them. The Driveway Moments thing and the constant traffic updates also drive me crazy. Except for the fact that, as a bike commuter, I get a smug sense of satisfaction at being able to ignore them!

-Ian

[killJOY]

Expletive deleted.? A story on oil prices, that non-entity, what's his name, Carl Casshole, asked some dude, an "analist" named Adam:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;So OPEC says there's plenty of reserves, so what's REALLY causing the high price of oil?"

[heroineworshipper]

Mainstream media became worthless when they stopped covering McCain, completely.

[joewp]

No, they became worthless a long time before that, like in the 1970s or earlier.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('heroineworshipper', 'M')ainstream media became worthless when they stopped covering McCain, completely.

[killJOY]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')o, they became worthless a long time before that

[Homesteader]

Yeah, the guys name was Adam Davidson. Spoke just like those brand new Harvard grads that did such a smooth job being completely wrong about where a piece of firewood came from.

The piece on NPR was pitiful, yet totally expected.

[jedinvest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')o, they became worthless a long time before that

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', 'N')PR has no commercials.

[seldom_seen]

I listen to NPR every morning when bustin' a shower. I listen mainly for the fact that I know millions of others are listening and consider NPR as a valid news source. It allows me to stay contemporary with one of the propaganda arms of the friendly fascist state. I listen as an anthropologist might study a tribe in Borneo. "Ah, so this is what makes them tick?"

I often catch myself and think "did they really just say that?" I shake my head and think, "nah, I'm just imagining things."

They seem to have strict censorship policy against truth & reality. Everything has to be softened up, sanitized, politically correctized as to not cause anyone in their Subaru Forrester to spit starbucks coffee across the dashboard.

[IanC]

Killjoy, I feel ya.

I listen to NPR regularly and have to keep reminding myself that it is still mainstream propaganda, just spun toward a different demographic than Fox news or CNN. I, too, want to puke when I hear their very surface, very pro-corporate "analysis" of energy/depletion issues about which I care so deeply.

I think what gets me the most is how they always talk about how "something" must be done, but are so beholden to corporate and government sponsorship that they can do nothing but help perpetuate wild overconsumpution by their listeners. Listening to NPR just makes people feel like they're informed and enlightened, but doesn't make them actually more responsible.

In Portland, we have KBOO (KBOO.fm on the internet) for alternative, non-corporate news.

-Ian
Portland

[killJOY]

I'm near the "other" Portland, and luckily we have good college radio nearby to hear Pacifica (mentioned above).
Last night on NPR took the cake: "Economy: bad! Now for a long story about the HOLLYWOOD SIGN in L.A.!" I Expletive deleted. you not.

[mattduke]

I like Click and Clack.

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'I') like Click and Clack.

[killJOY]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') like Click and Clack.

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', '[')b]Expletive deleted.? A story on oil prices, that non-entity, what's his name, Carl CExpletive deleted. , asked some dude, an "analist" named Adam: $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;So OPEC says there's plenty of reserves, so what's REALLY causing the high price of oil?"