Comments on: NPR Correspondents, By Chance, in Earthquake http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/13/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: tperran http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/13/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake/#comment-16320 Wed, 14 May 2008 13:49:57 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/13/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake/#comment-16320 You're right lex, the National Pentagon Reporter is much worse because they USED TO have a reputation for unbiased news. Many people still listen to them with the "ears of the past". I listen to them every day on my way to work and Steve Inskeep isn't any better than the anchors on the big corporate networks. To me, ALL media should limit the use of adjectives in their reporting to lessen the amount of their own bias that gets inserted. NPR fails this test just as miserably as the rest. You’re right lex, the National Pentagon Reporter is much worse because they USED TO have a reputation for unbiased news. Many people still listen to them with the “ears of the past”. I listen to them every day on my way to work and Steve Inskeep isn’t any better than the anchors on the big corporate networks. To me, ALL media should limit the use of adjectives in their reporting to lessen the amount of their own bias that gets inserted. NPR fails this test just as miserably as the rest.

]]> by: lex http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/13/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake/#comment-16294 Wed, 14 May 2008 06:41:27 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/13/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake/#comment-16294 I can hardly agree, Winston. NPR is worse than FOX, in so much as they pretend to something they are not, and that something is a non-corporate alternative source of news and opinion. The vast proportion of the reporting I hear there (yes, I still listen) is indistinguishable from what you are likely to hear on the networks: The same "radical cleric(s)" opposing "reasonable-minded" American military ambitions, and the same dead "insurgents," their ranks invariably later to be found to be comprised mostly of women and children- though not a finding revealed necessarily on NPR. That said; I was amazed at the aplomb with which Melissa Block described the earthquake. She even remembered to say, in a perfectly drab Anglo measure of understatement: "Oh my Gosh, is this an earthquake?" as though it were a suddenly noticed stain on her blouse! I can hardly agree, Winston. NPR is worse than FOX, in so much as they pretend to something they are not, and that something is a non-corporate alternative source of news and opinion. The vast proportion of the reporting I hear there (yes, I still listen) is indistinguishable from what you are likely to hear on the networks: The same “radical cleric(s)” opposing “reasonable-minded” American military ambitions, and the same dead “insurgents,” their ranks invariably later to be found to be comprised mostly of women and children- though not a finding revealed necessarily on NPR.

That said; I was amazed at the aplomb with which Melissa Block described the earthquake. She even remembered to say, in a perfectly drab Anglo measure of understatement: “Oh my Gosh, is this an earthquake?” as though it were a suddenly noticed stain on her blouse!

]]> by: Winston Smith http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/13/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake/#comment-16270 Tue, 13 May 2008 21:58:51 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/13/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake/#comment-16270 I have no idea if you are coming from the right or the left with that comment because both (the right and left) have criticized NPR for what you just have mentioned. If you are coming from where I think you are coming, I think you are confusing "covering up" with cautious and informed reporting, rather than reporting on rumors like the extreme right wing (Most crap shows on FoxNews) or extreme left wing opinion shows like Flash points, and unfortunately sometimes even Democracy Now (which I mostly enjoy) on Pacifica. Lighten up, NPR may not perfect but its the most neutral (mildly mainstream) news outlet out there. I have no idea if you are coming from the right or the left with that comment because both (the right and left) have criticized NPR for what you just have mentioned. If you are coming from where I think you are coming, I think you are confusing “covering up” with cautious and informed reporting, rather than reporting on rumors like the extreme right wing (Most crap shows on FoxNews) or extreme left wing opinion shows like Flash points, and unfortunately sometimes even Democracy Now (which I mostly enjoy) on Pacifica. Lighten up, NPR may not perfect but its the most neutral (mildly mainstream) news outlet out there.

]]> by: ed kriner http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/13/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake/#comment-16265 Tue, 13 May 2008 20:28:42 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/05/13/npr-correspondents-by-chance-in-earthquake/#comment-16265 For all of the covering-up that NPR does for the dominant political/social cultural this is the first time they did anything to justify a contribution to Naturally Pointless reporting! For all of the covering-up that NPR does for the dominant political/social cultural this is the first time they did anything to justify a contribution to Naturally Pointless reporting!

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