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I dunno if we're listening to the same station or not, but like half their shows are hosted by fruit juice drinking, sandal wearing nudists with vegetarian leanings, voluminous knowledge of feng shui, and a powerful devotion to the earth spirit Gaia.

They're so quacked out on that station that I simply cannot listen to it. Sure, they occasionally have Noam Chomsky on the air, but other than that, I feel like I'm dodging bullets whenever they report "facts" to me.

The standard of journalism on their news shows is embarassingly low that it absolutely has to be worse than fox news. Partly, it's because they don't have any resources, and partly it's because they're crossed too many lines, and are basically past the point of no return from receiving flack.

It's routine for them to have guests on the air that spout of wild conspiracy theories, or for them to run reports that are verifiably false. An example of this would be that during the invasion of Iraq, they were giving strong consideration to stories about how well the Iraqi military was doing. I mean, COME ON.

One time they ran an interview supposedly by a veteran of the first gulf war who was supposedly part of a special ops team that set fire to the kuwaiti oil fields so that Saddam would look bad. what what what!?

Their coverage of the events leading up the Iraq war was excellent in parts. I used to listen to the morning show with Sonali Kolhotkar (sp?) every day on my drive to school, and then in the evening I'd read through various newspapers and verify the stuff I heard, or do an internet search.

The MSM screwed us so badly before the invasion that I'm surprised that any americans can feel any level of trust for CNN, etc. ever again. Michael Moore was right to call out Wolf Blitzer on the air IMO, but he didn't go far enough. Some of these bastards deserve a lot more than a righteous chiding.