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Me: Happy International Worker's Day everybody!

NPR: It's May 1st, the day on which in 2011 President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden was dead

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What's disturbing is that this falsehood would seem to represent a worldview for these journalists/editors; the type of worldview that would determine things like who you seek out as sources, how you interpret complex events, with whom you sympathize, etc.

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No evidence needed: your government (which as you might know from other articles but not mentioned here, is supplying the weapons and money for the horrific wars that stoke this conflict) is just doing its best to keep violence to a minimum!

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No evidence needed: your government (which as you might know from other articles but not mentioned here, is supplying the weapons and money for the horrific wars that stoke this conflict) is just doing its best to keep violence to a minimum!

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How much police work was involved, would you guess, based on this headline?

(in reality, the guy got threatened his housemate with a gun, at which point, they informed on him. I would say, he foiled his own plot)

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An NPR anchor reveals a rosy, almost childish outlook on the USA and its role in the world.

Seeing this, can anyone really think he objectively or reasonably presents political and world news each week, as he supposedly does for millions of listeners?

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Who better to ask what is or is not part of a protest than..."authorities"

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In the NPR article about Tucson police killing Adrian Ingram-Lopez, whose voices are represented?

Only police and government officials.

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The unqualified use of the term "kidnapped" is fascinating. NPR would never use it to describe the actions of agents of the US government. Why not?

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NPR write up on Nevada pointlessly scolding Sanders, accusing him of "perpetuating conspiracies". it's a conspiracy theory to suggest that WaPo (which once ran 16 negative stories about him in 16 hours) is biased against him

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You ever notice how ppl keep on "escaping" and "finding the way out" but there's still always a bunch of people in there

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NPR is willing to do an unusual amount of editorializing in order to knock M4A

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@NPR’s on-air sourcing diversity show little progress in the newsroom’s goal to “look and sound like America.” @ejensenNYC reviews the numbers in this week’s column.

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Very clear narrative here that Warren was too far left on healthcare... But no real evidence for it

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NYT today vs NPR today

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no... antisemitism and "animus toward cops" do not belong in the same category

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No mention of austerity or poverty in UK election roundup. Instead - both Tories and Labour are offering "plans to improve social services"

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PR GUY: my job is to say that my organization did nothing wrong.

REPORTER: interesting. Say that

PR GUY: my organization didn't do anything wrong

REPORTER: there you have it folks

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imagine how different the news would be if reporters didn't feel the need to give space to statements (by public figures, executives, corporations) that they know are lies

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Daily reports on poverty, war, social movement: too monotonous. You can only bring these topics up if you have a fresh, newsy framing for them.

Daily reports on politicians droning on, defending themselves & posturing, to a public that knows they are lying: Yes. always fresh