NPR's "Invitation", Their Response

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alan

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The following seems weak to me, but it just might give someone pause for thought. In any case, didn't cosst much to try.Subject:
RE: invitation to comment
Date:
Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:06:21 -0400
From:
Jeffrey Dvorkin <JDvorkin@npr.org>
To:
"'alan schultz'" <mrmidnite@earthlink.net>


Dear Mr. Schultz,

Thank you for your email. I appreciate hearing your perspectives and
concerns.

Your observations about the technical descriptions is a good one and I will
forward it to
NPR's language counsellor.

On the matter of bias on coverage of the issue of gun ownership, I have the
following observation:

When NPR covers gun ownership without a crime connection, gun owners think,
generally, that
the reporting is fair. When the issue is crime, and politicians call for
tighter restrictions, gun owners think NPR does an unfair job.

Regards,

Jeffrey Dvorkin
NPR Ombudsman
 
They're weak. I stopped listening to NPR. I got tired of their anti-Second Amendment and pro homo stories. The story about the 90 year old lesbian was all I could take.

Shok
 
I stopped listening to National Propaganda Radio last year.
I don't ever recall ever hearing any story about guns that didn't have a crime connection. So the stories I did hear were always anti.
Furthermore, how do they determine how gun owners feel about certain stories? Anybody here ever been surveyed by them?
 
Gentlemen:

It might be worth while to take a moment, and ship your views off to NPR. You can't "make" them listen, but reasoned, polite comments can't really hurt. In case anyone is interested, their email address is as follows:

ombudsman@npr.org

Alan
 
I'm a pretty liberal person (for a gun loving pig), and even I can't stand to listen to NPR. Talk about biased reporting! They are terrible...
 
I listen to NPR for two reasons:

1. BBC news late at night. Yea, they are about the most arrogent, know-it-all, bunch of idiots, but atleast it covers places outside the US. Heck, it gives me practice weeding through the bull S.

2. Cartalk

Thats it. Nothing else has any value.

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"... I rejoice that America has resisted [The Stamp Act]. Three millions of people, so dead to all feelings of liberty as to voluntarily submit to being slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest of us." -- William Pitt, British Parliament, December 1765
 
I never could have contemplated this years ago, but if we get a change in administration, lets all try to get the government money out of NPR. Its a disgusting thing to be taxed to pay of someone else's political agenda and my feeling now is that NPR is hopelessly compromised in this direction.
If we want to hear government controled radio, we can always get BBC, but I doubt that many would actually go for it if it cost them anything.
 
When NPR covers gun ownership without a crime connection, gun owners think,
generally, that the reporting is fair. When the issue is crime, and politicians call for tighter restrictions, gun owners think NPR does an unfair job.

The ratio of crime/non-crime gun coverage is about 100/1. Gee, gun owners get pissed at the standard-procedure 100 and get excited about the freak 1. Go figure.
 
Well they have Daniel Schorr to do
political analyis on saturday mornings
with Scott Simon. That should tell you all something. You are correct though
for I have hounded them about their collective bias for the left wing democratic party.
 
Yea, his "observation" is pretty weak. Are the pro-gun people over-reacting, or does NPR consistantly go out of their way to misrepresent the gun used in a crime?

That's a bit like saying that people enjoying the benefits of cyanide in electronics production, but complain whenever it winds up in their water supply.
 
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