Saturday, November 27, 2010

State propagandist National Public Radio keeps the "Persecuted Jewry" meme primed and flowing into the American body politic

From:
NPR’s Holocaust obsession

(Mondoweiss) -- by Henry Norr --

After waking up this morning to yet another Holocaust story on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition, I headed to npr.org's search page to check my impression that such stories been coming thick and fast lately. Narrowing my query to "Heard On Air" (excluding the blogs, Associated Press stories, and other things posted at the website), "Past Year," and "News" (the only NPR programs I regularly listen to), I found 20 stories, not including today's, that included the word "Holocaust." Comparing other historical phenomena with tragic consequences, I found 15 hits on the word "slavery," 11 on "native Americans," nine on "communism," five on "Rwanda genocide," one on "Armenian genocide," and one on "Ukrainian famine."

Suggestive as these results may be, such simple word searches don't get at the heart of the matter, because most of the hits are passing references within stories focused on current issues. But of the 21 stories that mention "Holocaust," six by my count were sustained, in-depth discussions of some aspect of the Nazi murder of the Jews more than 65 years ago: today's interview with an Israeli professor about his new book on one famous photograph from the Warsaw ghetto, an October 28 item on the role of German diplomats in the genocide, an August 28 piece on the Nazi Nuremberg laws, a July 23 analysis of the role of the French national railroad in the deportation of French Jews, an April 15 piece on the memories of American vets who helped liberate the Nazi concentration camps, and a March 9 segment entitled "Russian Village Haunted By A Hidden Holocaust Past."...MORE...LINK
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