[PGR88]

When i listen to NPR, I think of middle-aged metrosexuals in the SF Bay Area driving their lexus hybrids to their yoga lessons. NPR have a very specific world-view which colors everything they do.

I recently listened to a report about the launching of the worlds largest container ship - and where did NPR take it? The low number of women sailors in various merchant marines, and how big ships might effect whales. That was the entire content of the story about a massive new container ship.

[cuban leaf]

I recently listened to a report about the launching of the worlds largest container ship - and where did NPR take it? The low number of women sailors in various merchant marines, and how big ships might effect whales. That was the entire content of the story about a massive new container ship.

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I missed that one, but it is the MO I’ve seen in lots of other stories. I can understand their rationale - to get “the rest of the story” - to make their listeners think they have a perspective most people don’t have. It feeds their superiority complex even though they really know nothing about the ship that was created.

It’s like hearing about the invention of the automobile, but knowing nothing about the benefits and uses of the car, and only reporting how it will impact armadillos in Texas.