As an example of how biased NPR is, even by mainstream media standards, while most radio news outfits cover the actual war, NPR seemed to find coverage of the anti-war protests far more interesting - and provided virtually play-by-play coverage.
That doesn't make NPR biased, that makes NPR a source superior to other radio news stations. At least NPR bothered to show an other side of the story, while other stations tend to limit themselves to rerun after rerun of the same news reports from Iraq, or at best mention anti-war protests in a single 30-second item just before they go to commercials.
Hard to imagine that these are my US taxpayer dollars at work... I mean, I am generally sympathetic to much of the concept behind public broadcasting in the US, but this kind of propagandizing under the veneer of "news" should be left to the private sector.
So, you believe that NPR should limit itself to broadcasting news from the war front, and not pay any attention to anti-war demonstrations? Do you consider war protests to be "not news"?
Remember John, war protesters also pay taxes, so coverage of anti-war protests on NPR is also *their* tax dollars at work, not just *your* tax dollars. The purpose of public radio is to give a voice to all sides, its purpose is *not* to be a mouth piece for Bush and his cronies.
Jeroen "Make love, not war" van Baardwijk
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