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Can you cite specific examples of this "bias?"
by nabwodahs 1y ago
Can you cite specific examples of this "bias?"
- photonthug 1y agoAs linked elsewhere in this thread, see Uri Berliner on the subject https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-tru...
- TimorousBestie 1y agoHere’s Fox reporting on NPR’s bias: https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-head-asks-critics-show-me-story-proves-liberal-bias-amid-defunding-threats https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-head-asks-critics-show-me-... As you can see, it’s mostly gotcha quotes and unfair glosses. For example: > NPR also called America’s interstate highways racist. I did not know our highways were racist. I thought they were concrete, but not according to NPR. Of course, it’s a historical fact that many minority neighborhoods were bulldozed to make room for interstate highway development, among them Cincinnati, OH and St. Louis, MO. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-freeways-flattened-black-neighborhoods-nationwide-2021-05-25/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-freeways-flattened-black... But of course this history that actually happened is interpreted as Reuters’ liberal bias. There’s no winning this.
- specialist 1y agoHave you read Robert Caro's The Power Broker? It's a biography of Robert Moses.
- dizlexic 1y agoRobert Moses did not build the USA highway system. Robert Moses was racist. What was done to some communities was messed up. The highway system isn't racist.
- shakes_mcjunkie 1y agoWhat point are you trying to make? I don't see how you're connecting these things. The highway where I live is certainly designed with racist intent.
- specialist 1y agoAre you confusing freeways and highways? Robert Caro details Moses' role wrt highways & suburbia in NYC, nationally, and even internationally. IMHO, having never Moses, I'd wager he was classist. (Moses allegedly also hated poor and immigrant Jews.) As you know in the USA economy & society, classist ~= racist.
- hitekker 1y ago"Babies are not babies until they are born. They’re fetuses." from https://wamu.org/story/19/05/15/guidance-reminder-on-abortion-procedures-terminology-rights/ https://wamu.org/story/19/05/15/guidance-reminder-on-abortio... I'm not against abortion. In fact, I actually see the legal necessity of it in an overpopulating world. But NPR's bias on the front does not align with my own bias or, I think, with most people. Everyone has bias and that's perfectly human. The problem is when we don't own up to it. NPR tries to cover theirs with circuitous language and lies-by-omission, https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2019/05/29/728069483/reviewing-nprs-language-for-covering-abortion https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2019/05/29/7280694.... That double-talk served well in insulating them from criticism, but it ended up costing them the public trust.
- TimorousBestie 1y ago> Babies are not babies until they are born. They’re fetuses. This is a factual statement with accurate medical terminology. We don’t call them meteorites until they hit the earth, either.
- aydyn 1y agoI hate to have to inform you of this, but "babies" is not a medical term.
- 9x39 1y agoIt's verbal sleight of hand in the cultural tug-of-war to emphasize or de-emphasize the future human. The point is that massaged language blunts or sharpens its impact, and an org's political choices therein reflect the bias. Meteorites don't have that baggage.
- lenkite 1y ago> Can you cite specific examples of this "bias?" Read https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-tru... by NPR veteran that shows how NPR developed a left wing bias over time. Also at https://archive.is/H7QNM https://archive.is/H7QNM https://washingtonstand.com/news/npr-has-zero-republicans-87-democrats-on-editorial-staff-says-senior-editor- https://washingtonstand.com/news/npr-has-zero-republicans-87... NPR Has Zero Republicans, 87 Democrats on Editorial Staff
- legitster 1y agoIf you are going to reference Uri's interview, you should also reference the response from his former colleagues: https://steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-my-npr-colleague-failed-at-viewpoint https://steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-my-npr-colleague-fai...
- nabwodahs 1y ago"NPR Has Zero Republicans, 87 Democrats on Editorial Staff" How many "Republicans" applied?
- autoexec 1y agoI guess they expect NPR to have diversity hires to meet republican quotas now?
- lenkite 1y agoOf-course, I am sure a government funded 100%-republican news and broadcasting agency with news pieces spouting right-wing talking points trotted out with regularity would be fully accepted as an excellent use of taxpayer money in the public interest by democratic politicians.
- smithkl42 1y agoUndoubtedly that's the reason for the under-representation of women as Fortune 500 CEO's. They're just not applying.
- sfblah 1y agoHow about using terms like "pregnant people"? Or the fact that on my local NPR station I can count down from 60 and something like 80% of the time, before I reach 0, they've talked about race or ethnicity at least once.
- laughing_man 1y agoThat's my complaint. Decades ago I enjoyed NPR when I drove to work. It was always left leaning, but at least the programs discussed topics I found interesting or cared about for one reason or another. These days the only thing they talk about are racial and sexual minorities. I can't express how little this kind of factionalism interests me. I'm not arguing that kind of content shouldn't be produced, but I don't want to pay for it.
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- hnburnsy 1y agoAdam Carolla was interviewed by NPR and tried to Gotcha him by saying he said racist comments against Asians, but the comments were from an Asian comedian. NPR canned the interview and never aired it, despite telling him they would air it.
- shakes_mcjunkie 1y agoYou know Asians can be racist against Asians right?