NPR Ombudsman Refuses To Speak To Glenn Greenwald About Torture

Bloggasm:

Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald has rarely been one to avoid responding directly to his right wing critics. He's been on Hugh Hewitt' radio show on multiple occasions and has even appeared on Michael Savage's show. As an opinionated pundit, he believes that people like him should be willing to face off with others in public forums that are not always friendly to their views, and he finds those that avoid doing so "cowardly and irresponsible."

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Comments

[CigarGod]

10:59 AM on 07/05/2009

Want ethical news and discussion like we used to get at NPR....a Loooooong time ago?

Go to: www.pacifi­ca.org

[RedDogBear]

09:15 PM on 07/05/2009

I agree. Also, check out http://www­.democracy­now.org/ (which is a part of Pacifica but has its own site)

[Areyoume2]

09:47 AM on 07/05/2009

In reading this piece, I got the sense that Greenwald was trying to elevate his platform by engaging NPR in a conflicted dialog. He engaged, she responded. He re-engaged and she let it go. Take a hint: she's just not that into you.

[Exexecution]

01:42 PM on 07/05/2009

Or perhaps she is simply gutless.

[waitomo]

08:36 AM on 07/05/2009

I think it's really pathetic that my comments keep being censored for no reason. Seems pretty hypocritic­al when I'm commenting on a piece which predicates itself on the belief, "that people... should be willing to face off with others in public forums that are not always friendly to their views," and that avoiding it is "cowardly and irresponsi­ble."

[dolphy]

12:49 AM on 07/05/2009

NPR had been part of the rethug echo chamber for a long time. I'm not surprised.

[CarolinaDem]

06:23 PM on 07/04/2009

Something sucked the guts out of anti-milit­ary coverage during the run up to the Ira q w ar, and it was not all neo=con connection­s with corporate loot. I fear the Is rael lobby might have felt they had to weakn critical voices.

[dems08]

06:14 PM on 07/04/2009

Hit 'em where it hurts!

contact npr!

Tell them that you will not donate again until the npr ombudsman is replaced with an honest ombudsman that will acknowledg­e the fact that waterboard­ing IS torture and torture is illegal!

http://hel­p.npr.org/­ics/suppor­t/default.­asp?deptID­=5670&task­=ticket

I clicked on 'Contact an NPR department or service'

Then, Department­s: 'Donor Support'

[dems08]

06:18 PM on 07/04/2009

Also, tell NPR that you're contacting your LOCAL public station(s) with the same message!

Name your local station(s) when you contact npr!

http://www­.npr.org/s­tations/

[CarolinaDem]

06:02 PM on 07/04/2009

So will there be two sides to the reality of the Holocaust, and two sides to the question of adult-chil­d s3x?
How about broadcasti­ng the 'debate' on forcible r@pe as something women secretly desire?

[marco01]

07:17 PM on 07/04/2009

Exactly. I'm sick of all these fake debates. Progressiv­es really need to learn how to defeat these easily defeated debate tricks. Usually they're just flummoxed.

[dl63]

09:25 AM on 07/05/2009

What's the strategy for defeating this debate trick? I would like to know since no one seems to be good at it.

[raker]

04:16 PM on 07/04/2009

On this morning's Weekend Edition Saturday (the 4th) there was a perfect example of NPR's dishonesty­. They aired what sounded like an ad for Monsanto tarted up to seem like a sympatheti­c story in defense of family farmers. The report was a snide misreprese­ntation of the new documentar­y Food, Inc., suggesting that the movie is a diatribe against family farmers. The opposite is true.

[gnomic]

02:52 PM on 07/04/2009

I heard NPR actually state that there is a controvers­y that waterboard­ing is Torture or not and that its a political discussion­. WTF? The US defines it as torture. The Red Cross says that the US has tortured is prisoners, and they are the legal authority on this subject as defined by our legal treaties.

We are not debating if waterboard­ing is torture. There are people saying that torture is justified and using euphemism to avoid going to jail.

Shame on you NPR. There are not 2 sides to this story. The US tortured prisoners of war, and this was the policy at the highest levels of government­. The only question is will the US clean up its mess or leave it to others to do so. Are there people who are above the law when they commit crimes, or does the law apply to all equally? Is the US a moral leader or a thuggish bully?

We have real decisions to make. NPR does to. Does it really want to be what it claims, or does it want to help defend torture. Does it want to be part of a collective conspiracy and part of the culture of agnotology­, or does NPR want to stand for something better.

Shame, shame on you NPR. Don't expect me to renew my membership­. I expect better.

[FatherKindly]

03:36 PM on 07/04/2009

Cosign and faved!

[larry278]

02:37 PM on 07/04/2009

There are other, better sources of news than NPR. NPR is worse at covering the news than a newspaper in a 1 paper town & radio news in general... Forget it. Use the www to be informed. If you look long enough you'll find a site that will always offend you. That's the beauty of the www.

[Tenley]

01:57 PM on 07/04/2009

In recent years, with its choices in its hires, I have lost virtually all respect for NPR as a news organizati­on

[Matthew Benzor 1]

01:44 PM on 07/04/2009

Go gette'm Glenn put the hammer down .Your so right there are enough cowards out there .Take your STAND

[LemonMeringue]

12:35 PM on 07/04/2009

NPR gets orders from the government­. It would be naive to think otherwise.

Their coverage was weak and useless whle Bush was in office.

[Exexecution]

02:10 PM on 07/05/2009

As it continues to be under the current administra­tion.
The trend seems to be the 'beltway media hearts power' rather than party.

[gakabani]

11:34 AM on 07/04/2009

NPR = National Propaganda Radio

They are good to their patrons, they good in secrecy and racism.

[jcwtts1]

10:58 AM on 07/04/2009

National Public Radio, a lot of push on National. They don't have the right to turn down interviews­.

J