NPR hired a propaganda specialist as its new CEO — demonstrating how brazen Lamestream disinformation wolves are

© 2019 Peter Free

 

09 September 2019

 

 

I do enjoy a good laugh

 

NPR hired John Lansing as its new chief executive:

 

 

Lansing, who is 62, is currently the chief executive of the government agency that oversees Voice of America, Radio and Television Martí and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others.

 

© 2019 David Folkenflik, NPR Names Veteran Media Executive John Lansing As Its New CEO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio (05 September 2019)

 

 

The above listed media outlets are . . .

 

. . . US government agencies that spread rah-rah American propaganda around the world.

 

 

But nevertheless — kudos

 

Because NPR already spouts government propaganda 24/7, I see Lansing's appointment as an honest coming out. An alternative to our disinformation-oriented Lamestream, NPR has not been.

 

 

Revealingly — meanwhile

 

In July this year, Professor Shawn Rosenberg (California-Irvine) published an online paper, whose abstract says that:

 

 

[T]he rise of populism is not simply a passing response to fluctuating circumstances such as economic recession or increased immigration and thus a momentary retreat in the progress toward ever greater democratization.

 

Instead I suggest current developments reflect an underlying structural weakness inherent in democratic governance . . . .

 

The weakness is the relative inability of the citizens of the modern, multicultural democracies to meet the demands the polity imposes upon them.

 

I argue that citizens typically do not have the cognitive or emotional capacities required.

 

Thus they are typically left to navigate in political reality that is ill understood and frightening.

 

Populism offers an alternative view of politics and society which is more readily understood and more emotionally satisfying . . . .

 

The conclusion is that democracy is likely to devour itself.

 

© 2019 Shawn Rosenberg, Democracy Devouring Itself: The Rise of the Incompetent Citizen and the Appeal of Right Wing Populism, uci.adademia.edu (2019) (at Abstract) (extracts)

 

 

The moral? — Sheep go where they are pointed

 

And NPR is happy to become one of the overtly wannabe, oligarchy-supporting herders.

 

Whatever direction ultimately results — "populist" or oligarchic — the devouring of the United States' pretended democracy gains momentum.