I only listen to NPR morning news while I make coffee and am away from my Sirius Left radio.  It inevitably makes me angry.  This morning they had on a "cute" story from two guys from "This American Life" who reported on the bank bailout followed by an interview with one of those ubiquitous "business professors" they get on.  And this guy was actually a banker turned teacher.  Teacher of what?  How to sell bullsh*t?  The guy blames us for all this mess. And he had a graph to prove it.  That ended the story with no one even vaguely commenting on the reams of wrong in that story.  National Pablum Radio is worse than right wing radio.  It makes just enough sense to get into the public mind set.  It sets the conventional wisdom.  This is what the corporatocracy wants.  It's all our fault.  That way when we have all the safety nets yanked from us, we will all look at each other and say,  "We had it coming, Chester.  We shouldn't a oughta have bought that consarned TV set".  Here's the story.   Taxpayers are on the Hook cuz it's Their Fault

This is yet another example of the business bias of NPR. Having a banker on to tell us that it's our fault is manipulative.  No, Mr. Beim, It's stagnant wages made possible by the attack on unions that shoved people into the open arms of the credit card companies aka banks that's a big part of the problem. Neither did regular working taxpayers borrow money from China and Japan to give the upper one-tenth of one percent tons of America's wealth that never trickled down. Our coporatocracy did that.

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