FAIR Blog » Xe http://www.fair.org/blog The national media watch group Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:42:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 U.S. Paramilitary Murder Doesn't Rate on NPR http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/10/u-s-paramilitary-murder-doesnt-rate-on-npr/ http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/10/u-s-paramilitary-murder-doesnt-rate-on-npr/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:54:33 +0000 Gabriel Voiles http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=11927 National Public Radio monitor mytwords (NPR Check, 8/9/09) has observed what he dubs a "Blackwater Blackout" on the publicly funded "alternative" to corporate radio:

On Tuesday, August 4 Jeremy Scahill broke the story about two sworn statements implicating Blackwater (now Xe) founder Erik Prince in the murder of employees or former employees who were cooperating in the federal investigation of Blackwater. He also revealed that sworn statements indicated that Blackwater was organized and run as an anti-Muslim, Christian identity paramilitary force. By any measure this is a major news story. It was picked up by ABC, Boston Herald, CNN, the [London] Times, etc. Of course, Democracy Now! featured Scahill the next day for a substantial interview, and Scahill also was promptly featured on Olbermann's Countdown on MSNBC.

But "how about our nation's public radio news" stories?--well, mytwords will give "you a hint: it's less than one...."

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