<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">----><br><br>NPR — Can’t Hear You<br>
<br>I don’t know if you heard about this – but it’s a big deal: National Public<br>Radio has been accepting money from the Fracking Industry lately and it’s<br>been influencing their coverage. Our friends at Environmental Action have<br>
been tracking this ugly story and campaigning to put an end to this<br>disturbing trend. They’re planning an awesome action in DC this week to<br>show NPR they know what’s going on, and they’re going to stop it. We know<br>
that money warping our best public institutions is an issue you care deeply<br>about, whether it’s fracking, Big Oil or the megabanks. Can you join us and<br>Environmental Action in letting NPR know that it’s time to step the frack<br>
back from fracking money?<br><br>Thanks, John Sellers, The Other 98%<br><br>* * *<br><br>When we took 40,000 signatures to our meeting with NPR executives a few<br>weeks ago, they said they were shocked to hear that the millions of dollars<br>
they accept from the fracking industry might be tainting their coverage.<br>The Ombudsman and CEO promised to personally look into the issue.* They<br>lied. Which isn’t surprising when you consider that not telling the truth<br>
about fracking has become something of a habit at NPR. Just last week<br>another NPR reporter went on a special trip to report about how fracking is<br>so awesome because it’s allowing a resurgence of chemical manufacturing in<br>
Cancer Alley.** Sign here if you’ve had it with NPR taking money from the<br>fracking industry and then repeating their talking points. We’ll deliver<br>your name on a live broadcast beamed into NPR’s headquarters so they can’t<br>
ignore us. NPR’s been bought — lock, stock and microphones — by the<br>fracking industry. And it’s clear that if we want to change the coverage,<br>we’re going to have to treat its staff as a hostile witness. We have to<br>
make them listen because they don’t want to hear the truth about fracking.<br>So we’re taking our message back to D.C. and we’re going to beam a live<br>signal into NPR’s office. Will you sign on in support, so we can tell NPR<br>
you want them to tell the truth about fracking? I still believe in NPR. I<br>think there are good reporters in there that want to tell the truth about<br>fracking. So, just like America used to beam western music and news into<br>
soviet-occupied Europe, we’re going take our message of truth and beam it<br>directly into NPR’s headquarters on the FM band. These frackers may have<br>bought the mouthpiece of NPR, but if anyone inside has a heart and ears,<br>
they wont be able to shut us out. After all, that’s what public radio is<br>supposed to be about — the people speak on issues of national concern.<br>National Public Radio hears, investigates and reports the truth. And the<br>
truth is all we’ve ever needed to beat the frackers.<br><br>Pump up the volume, Drew and the team at Environmental Action *<br>Environmental Action, What Happened at NPR, December 18, 2013. **<br><br>Jackie Northam, German Chemical Giant BASF Benefits From Cheap U.S. Natural<br>
Gas, Morning Edition March 26, 2014. Other 98% Action is fighting the<br>stranglehold that corporations have on our democracy. Like what we do? Make<br>a $5 donation to support us.<br><br><a href="http://www.environmental-action.org/blog/what-happened-npr" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.environmental-action.org/blog/what-happened-npr</a><br>
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