NPR Morning Edition (4/5/11) keeps its audience informed about important business news (that just so happens to be about an image-burnishing campaign by the company whose heiress gave them a 9-figure bequest a few years ago):
RENEE MONTAGNE: And our last word in business today comes from another Illinois-based employer. The word is McJobs.
That word has meant low-paid work at a particular fast food chain. But McDonald’s is trying to, quote, “turn the word on its ear,” as one marketing executive put it to Ad Age magazine.
Yesterday, McDonald’s launched a McJobs campaign, with the goal of recruiting 50,000 workers. It’s aiming to recast its jobs not as dead-end work, but in ads starring its own happy employees as desirable employment.
And that’s the business news on Morning Edition, from NPR News. I’m Renee Montagne.
STEVE INSKEEP, host: Don’t you mean Renee McMontagne?
(laughter)
INSKEEP: Just checking on that…
MONTAGNE: No, McInskeep. Hello.
INSKEEP: And I’m Steve McInskeep.
That’s so goddamn cute it just makes you want to throw up, don’t it?
As for the ad campaign, will the tag line be:
“You want lies with that?”
Does anybody remember why we’re trying to save NPR? Oh, now I remember – it’s the classical music.
Doug Latimer Says:
April 6th, 2011 at 10:06 am
That’s so goddamn cute it just makes you want to throw up, don’t it?
As for the ad campaign, will the tag line be:
“You want lies with that?”
LMAO – Thumb McThumbs up…
Democracy Now! is what NPR might be if it were not beholden to government and corporate funding. I support Democracy Now! because they don’t have to pull punches or not mention what is actually happening. Amy Goodman was on the plane with Jean-Bertrand Aristide. She is as close to the news source as one can be. Democracy Now! never had to pretend that the war on Iraq was anything other than an oil fueled war crime.
Bless you, Padre. -g-
Unless Congress changes the laws governing CPB, NPR and PBS, public media can’t use commercials. That’s why they call the list of corporations, foundations and other major funder’s “corporate sponsorship underwriting announcements”.
Again one should ask, “why are we trying to save NPR?” And it’s not the music!
Mick ee dees good for you .Stocks are up…..you are expanding and offering jobs(jobs elitist americans wont do?)Oh well lets let Americans choose what they want to do without libs snorting in derision.Friend of mine started there.Flipping burgers.He is now a VP for the chain.His home in Aruba is quite beautiful.
NPR?…If they do a good job they sail…if they dont they fail.DEMS the breaks.
Democracy now?First things first……Where did this idea come from that- frumpy grey haired woman(ever hear of dye?)with a droll flat toned boring- as- hell delivery are automatically telling the truth? As if that gives them validity.It is a bizarre show .America baiting, full of strange twisted views.It may have few viewers-but I watch it.Shows me what beliefs are floating about the liberal mind f#%k.Funny
It figure michael e pals around with the VP of McDonalds
So McDonalds is just putting a different face on the same old dead end, piss poor paying jobs. Its called marketing and psychological warfare.
NPR rushed to talk about McDonald’s National Hiring Day, but for months my 18 year old newsletter on arts and media, has been suggesting National Hiring Day #1, then #2, then #3 to NPR
National Hiring Day #3 is suggested for May 19, 2011. This is a day that corporations are encouraged to hire new employees. Corporations are called on to put patriotism first and help their country in hard times. Those corporations that cannot hire, are asked to stop firing for that month. The day was suggested by the 18 year old Dallas art and media zine Musea.
What is NPR’s response? The NPR Ombudsman said:
â┚¬Ã…“Why would national hiring day be news? And who is behind it? These are questions that would be asked before NPR would report on it. Just doesn’t seem like anything they would cover. â┚¬Ã‚ NPR Ombudsman.
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Just heard an interview this morning (4.9.11) on NPR with a spin master on radiation. He was visiting Tokyo, and claimed to be an expert on the dangers of radiation (I missed his ‘qualifications’ and affiliates). He went on to explain how this nuclear disaster could not possibly have much effect on the people and the planet because we already are exposed to so much background radiation depending where we live and on our activities (ie-if we fly in airplanes the levels are much higher than on the ground, medical uses of radiation, etc.). It seems all this exposure to radioactivity should not cause anyone to worry since we are already exposed to larger doses on a daily basis.
NPR offered no serious questioning of this source, and at the end of the discussion, he enthusiastically endorsed nuclear power as being safe since there have been so few accidents. . . I was just listening on the fly and this discussion made me shudder in horror of the misinformation. There was no counter discussion and no critical questioning. I hope FAIR can investigate this broadcast in depth and find out who was behind this misinformation babble.
While NPR is pimping McJobs, they don’t mention full time gigs pay less than $20k a year and the medical “coverage” workers get offered is a McJoke.
Like the sun coming up in the east, you can always count on Michael e to weigh in with some male driven clap-trap here at FAIR:
“Democracy now?First things firstâ┚¬Ã‚¦Ãƒ¢Ã¢”š¬Ã‚¦Where did this idea come from that- frumpy grey haired woman(ever hear of dye?)……with a droll flat toned boring- as- hell delivery are automatically telling the truth? As if that gives them validity.”
Uh, Mike…..It’s the quality of their reporting that gives them validity.
What does Michael e advocate as a good source of news? Maybe we could just go there ourselves and he wouldn’t have to write here so much. Wait. Didn’t he say he “works” for the “tea party” some time back? Helen Bedd, you are a very informative and refreshing commenter. Yay.
Michael e: you’re not supposed to be ogling the news babe, you’re supposed to be listening to the news. You have been raised in a culture that worships news-desk Barbie Dolls, and so I guess your comment about Amy Goodman, (ageism), shouldn’t be surprising. Ms. Goodman spends all of her time searching for the truth, all over the world, and she doesn’t pay much attention to appearances. She’s real, and she’s worth a hundred of the news babes.
Since Michael gets all his news from Faux, leggy blond = credible reporter.
Yes, NPR is a good little corporate shill. Their loyalty to Bank of America’s ‘underwriting’ proves it.
Ok ok I should anti up…..Mom would of been mad that I said all that mean stuff about that “always wrong bird” on the telly.So I apologize.And yeah it is funny as hell that some of the lasses on FOX are so damn hot.Faux and leggy as they may be.So lets not hold DN droll coverage- or FOXES sparkly desk against either.Or that dang good lookin president of ours who cant get anything right.Or the very sharp Sarah Palin or Hilary….well Hilary has a…….wonderful personality!
Love tweaking you
Im not sure what you lot want from Mcdonalds.Huge salaries and golden parachutes,with full healthcare and a pot of gold?Well I suppose they could unionize……….Calm down Im only kidding :)
“Mom would of been mad that I said all that mean stuff about that “always wrong bird” on the telly.
That’s no way to talk about Megyn Kelly!