NPR changes name to NP

Now NPR – National Public Radio – has changed its name to just “National Public”. It’s like the packaging for shampoo and other products, you may have noticed. They say “lemon freshened” and non-this and low-that and extra-satinizing, and it doesn’t say WHAT.

I raised my hand and complained to Scott Finn VPR president at his presentation in Brattleboro, VT, October 4 2018. Several people in the audience voiced support. He discussed the matter after the meeting with three or four others and me, and could only say that commercials were necessary to maintain the amount of programming. Definitely a choice of quantity over quality.

(at 31:26 in this video link https://www.brattleborotv.org/river-garden-brown-bag-lunch-series/vprs-tell-me-more-tour-10418)

The network thinks its poop don’t stink because it is maybe more truthful than Trump, but THIS is not truth:

“Love! It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru”

A chair that promotes “Active Sitting”

“Coffee Roasted for Friends”

The basic message is not Truth. It’s Money

11/8 1:35 Higher Ground person says “We’ve had great success advertising with VPR.”.

2/22/2018 VPR “sponsor” says ~~ “Every time our COMMERCIAL ran, we saw a jump in sales ”

The programs themselves are commercials.

12/21,2017 Fresh Air segment about best TV shows (on Commercial TV)

9/1/2017 On Point entire program about a commercial TV program “Game of Thrones”

NPR promotes climate denial

1:32 PM 12/19/2020

Marketplace special tech edition NPR How we survive adapting to climate change, Microsoft guy drooling on and on about the great business opportunity, another guest talking about the new fireproof imitation logs for log cabins in forests and BTW poor people etc are disproportionately affected, so here’s a tour of a $4,000,000 home with swimming pool and solar this and that, and “glass walls so you don’t have to spend a lot of money on paintings” !!!!? No joke!

It’s all day every day: non-commercial radio is becoming commercial radio. This is A-I creating solutions to previously unsolvable problems at enterprise scale. Yadda yadda A-I. This is enterprise A-I . It is serving the interests of big business, not the public interest. Let’s do something about it !

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Kurt Daims