(From NPR's 2005 [most recent] Annual Report -PDF file)
But heck, it's summer and let's give credit where credit is due. First to Robert Siegel (there I said it!) who, on Monday's ATC, presented the Alito remarks about empathy as a counter to the attacks on Sotomayor's remarks about empathy. Siegel was interviewing the twittering Chuck Grassley of Iowa and confronted him with the Alito statements AND even asked a few follow-ups when Grassley tried to squirm out of making a complete ninny of himself. It was delicious.
More importantly, this morning Peter Kenyon actually covered the story of the 25 IDF soldiers who have documented the systematic war crimes of Operation Cast Lead. NPR actually sent a reporter on the ground in Gaza and talked to a Gazan who lost his parents to Israeli shooters in a case similiar to one related by an Israeli soldier. Several commenters on the web site of the story thanked NPR for reporting this - one who summed it up well as a commendable "baby step."
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Hey, for Nussbaum, it's the best reporting that money can buy.
It's fair of you to point out, though, that NPR ain't all bad all the time. Siegel did show a stirring of query there, didn't he? As for the Breaking the Silence...the silence is sometimes louder than a tepid report, so we get a tepid report on BBC too.
Wooo, score one for Professor Emeritus Rootypoop! Hmmm, doesn't feel like my opinion has budged even a titch- he'll be back to playing fetch in no time.
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NPR has been the head cheerleader for the massive bank bailout from its very inception.
You just gotta wonder why that is.
My guess is that their bank "investments" took a big hit in the recent meltdown and they are using the public airwaves to give them a boost.
Can you say "illegal"?
It's right of you to give praise when praise is due ... especially since, given NPR's rapid drift to the right, the opportunity so seldom arises ...
James:
"It's right of you to give praise when praise is due ... especially since, given NPR's rapid drift to the right, the opportunity so seldom arises ..."
NPR is usually damned by the exceptions that manage to seep through.
edk
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