Recently Mytwords has commented on NPR's ingrained habit of ignoring the United States' own key historical role in their foreign news pieces (particularly in Central and South American coverage). But no news series has so perfectly captured this bias and ahistoricism as the week-long investigation of present-day Russia. I have been irritated by it beyond belief. Is NPR ever willing to oppose standard American elite political "conventional wisdom" (ie, Council of Foreign Affairs, Brookings, AEI type thinking) in its reports?
My name is Matthew Murrey and I'm from Florida, but have been living in the Midwest since 1984. I started this blog because no one else was blogging NPR's drift toward the right - and it made more sense than yelling at the radio.
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Recently Mytwords has commented on NPR's ingrained habit of ignoring the United States' own key historical role in their foreign news pieces (particularly in Central and South American coverage). But no news series has so perfectly captured this bias and ahistoricism as the week-long investigation of present-day Russia. I have been irritated by it beyond belief. Is NPR ever willing to oppose standard American elite political "conventional wisdom" (ie, Council of Foreign Affairs, Brookings, AEI type thinking) in its reports?
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