Chomsky mentioned that the co-host of the NPR program "all things considered" had a statement on print saying that Chomsky is the only person that is not allowed to be hosted.

Chomsky claims also that in the gulf war, the NPR was pressured by people in Boston, which is the ideological center of the NPR and also some of the places in which Chomsky is pretty known, to host him:

I was told that I'm allowed to have two and half minutes, however, they insisted that I write out what I was gonna say, send it to the central office so they can insure that's okay, and once they approved it I had to read it, and they prerecorded it to make sure to make sure I was not going to ad a phrase that went off the limit.

Later, he had a bestseller book that they were pressured to interview him for a review about it:

And then we had a prerecorded 5 minutes interview with Robert Siegel. It was actually announced. At 5 O'clock they announced that they are going to have a review of this book and the publisher contacted me said it's great. It got 05:25 the program stopped and there were 5 minutes of music. at 05:30 they announced the next segment. And people starting calling me and asking what happened to the review.

After 10 minutes I got a call from the manager of the whole thing in Washington who said you know sounds very strange we got many calls saying that your review didn't appear we knew that it did I see right in my program here, so I said I do not know, after 10 minutes later she called me back she said that she was overruled for the first time ever by some higher- who heard the announced in first 5 minutes and canceled it.

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