Posted on 03/16/2011 5:38:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
If you are falsely accused and can prove it, you stay and fight.
I heard folks on NPR debate this topic with someone who was Conservative. They were claiming that they had high standards and provided reporting of the very highest quality. He responded with a few examples of where NPR got things very wrong, and he mentioned Giffords' "death".
The NPR host was shocked! Do you serious -- seriously -- think that one or two examples of errors is evidence of anything?
1) They demand evidence
2) We give them evidence
3) They say our evidence doesn't count
They deserve no respect.
The point for us should be that these people are SO WARPED IN THEIR PERCEPTION OF REALITY that they actually BELIEVE what they are saying.
Their view of the world is so wierd that they really think they are fair and balanced. They are not smoking dope. they are just NUTS. Their problem is that EVERYONE they have ever met in their closed little circle is just like them and they have never met an opposing viewpoint in their entire lives.
They are the proverbial fish that doesn’t know he’s wet.
I went to a baby shower with my wife a few years ago and there were a bunch of these “fish” there as well. They were SHOCKED! SHOCKED! that anyone existed that didn’t conform to their worldview.
Don’t commercial TV stations still have to keep a list of complaints from viewers? Does that same rule apply to PBS? If so, it would be interesting if we all made an effort to write a complaint to our local PBS station.
The irony, of course, being that liberal "argument" generally makes a strawman out of some isolated data and uses that to "prove" some general "fact".
They can remain so long as they can sell their product. It's the rule that made every other going concern that survives, successful.
NPR thinks Pelosi is a Moderate.
It could not have been said better.
Excellent analogy!
What a bunch of liars, hypocrites, and candidates for the rubber room.
It is tremendously insulting that they think that ANYONE is stupid, ignorant, or brainwashed enough to believe this.
“Nurse Ratched, another 55 gallon drum of thorazine for our friends at NPR please.”
Not that I disagree with any of the article, but it neglects to document any bias in actual NPR news. If you want to counter the idea that NPR news is not biased you do that by showing bias in the news stories. Not by talking about fund raising and donors.
This is a common problem with articles that try to address news bias. They consistently fail to point any out. I don't know why. It's not like it's hard to find. I can pick up practically any paper any given day and point it out.
If you don't provide hard specific examples of bias there's nothing to pin down the target.
That stupid blonde twit (no misspelling here!) on the Morning Joe show tried to downplay the video by calling Shiller an ad salesman. I guess this suggestion is that salesmen will say anything. Shiller is the voice of NPR and he made his voice clear and unambiguous.
They didn't claim to be blameless. They just deny bias in the news. Which is why this article should have documented some.
Deep down inside, NPR knows that the same fate awaits them as what happened to AIR AMERICA!
Dead and GONE!
Defund and remove tax exempt status ASAP.
National PUBIC Radio; the yeasty, foaming, crotch of liberalism..
Deep down inside, NPR knows that the same fate awaits them as what happened to AIR AMERICA!
Dead and GONE!
I disagree. There seems to be no end of Volvo driving latte sippers who are willing to send them money. Fine and dandy, so stop giving them ours.
They are like the boy in the bubble. They don't know what happens in the real world.
They think people in Southern Indiana all wear overalls, don't have electricity, and wear big floppy hats from the 1890’s. Their idea of rural areas is frozen in the 1940’s. They've seen Ma and Pa Kettle, Grapes of Wrath (required for Cinema class), and the Wizard of Oz and they have an idea that this is how things were and are in rural areas. The black and white images are frozen in their minds. Since they are so isolated in their restricted thinking, I bet the think that if they go to Southern Indiana that it will actually be black and white.
NYC was the center of the universe in her world view. She could not understand how those of us out here in fly over country were able to put food on the table, except maybe from our own garden.
She was a nice kid and I hope she has figured it out by now.
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