RHF wrote:
LO,
It is obvious that you simply do not hear or recognize the 'slant'
that NPR inparts to the news and information that is presented.
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~ RHF
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In the broader sense no one can easily recognize slant as such when they
hear it if it agrees with their prejudices, but NPR news programming
is very careful to present both sides of issues when there
is controversy. Their affiliate stations have to support themselves
in "red" states as well as "blue" states and NPR still receives
considerable federal funding, which in the current political climate
requires that they be pretty scrupulous about exhibiting bias.
If you're so sure, why don't you give some examples? And not that
silly thing about how they don't refer to Dubya as "President" Bush.
You asserted that a ways back and it's a load of hooey.
I've heard interviews on NPR with such as Hastert, Rumsfeld,
Wolfowitz and Perle among others
and the interviews were respectful and non-confrontational.
They DO report on dissenting opinion as well, but that's what
balance requires.
The problem is more likely that your worldview is so skewed to
the right and so infected by verkrampt talk-radio that actual
balanced reporting sounds like left-wing extremism to you.
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