Nope, no bias here
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February 25th, 2004 at 11:39 am
I don’t get it. They told what the prez did & said on a controversial issue & then told what the dem candidates had to say about it. Would it have only been unbiased if they had left out the dem’s side?
February 25th, 2004 at 11:50 am
Well, the quotes by the dems were scathing.
February 25th, 2004 at 12:13 pm
I didn’t hear the report because I don’t listen to Morning Edition. Without knowing what was said, I suspect that the problem isn’t that NPR has become more liberal, but that Bjorn has become less liberal. It’s the same reason I quit listening to Morning Edition. (Well, that and the fact that Melissa couldn’t stand waking up to it. But I still don’t listen to it in the car.)
February 25th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
Pheh. Later in the same broadcast, they did a story about whether or not the Bush tax cuts had an effect on state budgets, that required those states to either make cuts or raise state taxes.
They first spoke to the Democratic governor of Michigan (who was very critical of Bush policies), and then to the Republican governor of Georgia (a defender of the Bush policy). They let the Bush partisan have the last word.
If it had been the other way around, conservatives would be screaming about that damned pervasive “leftist bias.”
February 25th, 2004 at 4:24 pm
Uncle:
Well, the quotes by the dems were scathing.
I honestly can’t tell if you’re being facetious. What were they supposed to do, censor the Democratic opposition?
Before passing judgment, anyone who wants to can listen for themselves and decide if the slant is leftist. I don’t see it.
Here’s the most “scathing” Democratic quote, from Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, who phrases this as a civil rights issue involving the US Constitution:
Ooooh, the dripping, scathing Leftist bias! How on Earth can anyone tolerate that blatant partisanship?
It should be noted, for those unable or too lazy to listen, that in the same story, they quote an Indiana Democratic Senator who might support amending the Constitution if the Defense of Marriage Act is not upheld; a Texas Republican who supports the Amendment; Trent Lott, who seems to support it but not enough to do anything about it; David Dryer (R-California) who opposes the Amendment on States’ Rights grounds.
Wow, that damn leftist bias! We need to submarine NPR immediately!
February 25th, 2004 at 4:28 pm
I suppose the story I found (I checked today’s broadcast and yesterday’s broadcast) might not be the right one. If somebody has examples of the “scathing” quotes being bandied around by Democrats, I’d love a link.
(Meanwhile, when NPR quoted a Missouri Republican who said that opening the door to gay marriage would also necessarily open the door to polygamy, that was OK, because it wasn’t a ;eftist criticism… This was in another story, concerning an attempt by the State of Missouri to amend its constitution to ban gay marriages.)