Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.
PBS and NPR: Deaf. Facebook: Blind. Troll farms: Sneaky. Clintons: Persecuted.
You know, there was once a time I was like most folks who listened to National Public Radio. But I quit a few years back because I hate to vomit. NPR couldn't find its backside if it was attached to it.
Not to say that I haven't heard some interesting things on their program. For instance, that is where I heard the story about the Mojave Desert Phone Booth which prompted me to write a song about it. I'm sharing it here and now to let you know this great story would not have existed had I not listened to NPR.
But those inspiring stories became fewer and I got tired of waiting for more.
It became painful and a waste of my time slogging through the Politically Correct Democratic Socialist RINO Fascist Commie talking points to get to something that might be relevant to an independent-minded person such as myself.
On their website, NPR boasts of winning hundreds of awards, many from prestigious journalism blah, blah, blah, while they say of themselves:
"On-air and online, NPR presents fact-based, independent journalism that examines and airs diverse perspectives. NPR's journalists strive for mastery of the narrative form, telling stories in ways that transport the audience to the places where news is happening and introducing the people affected."
Doesn't that just sound lofty and worthy and caring? Of course it does. But how independent can NPR be when the stories are the same as everybody else in mainstream media whose narrow world view produces narrow story lines? Which story lines, by the way, always give institutionalized evil a pass.
In 2011 NPR took money from George Soros' foundation. To explain it away, they said:
...But the organization made a judgment last fall that taps into that credibility account. The decision was to take $1.8 million from the Open Society Foundations. It's funded by left-leaning billionaire financier-philanthropist George Soros, who made his fortune in hedge funds and currency speculation.
The money is for a worthy purpose...
Of course it is, sweeties.
See? They knew Soros was — let me chuckle a moment — left-leaning, but took the money anyway. So I went to NPR's website and searched for that worthy purpose. It is called Impact of Government, and also Impact on Government. Which, by the by, are two completely different titles.
Supposedly they were going to have two stringers in each state that would focus on state politics that often do not get covered in the media. Here's what I found they did for $1.8 million dollars.
And nothing since. Hey, Soros? I'll write for ROTW for that kind of money. Oh, wait. I already write for ROTW and I do it at my own expense as a Citizen Journalist.
Now NPR is reporting that bastion of caring around the world and self-appointed watchdog of fake news, or social media giant Facebook, says that $100,000 they made selling ads on their portal to a Troll farm in Florida made Hillary lose?
And they say it with a straight face?
I'd laugh except it isn't funny.
