WaPo Slants Toward NPR With Tilted News Story, Two Supportive Editorials
On Friday, The Washington Post clearly displayed its bias in favor of liberal NPR with two supportive editorials (including one from a “conservative”) and a slanted news story on Thursday's House vote on NPR. That story, by Felicia Sonmez , had a 6-to-4 tilt in quotes toward NPR advocates — if you don't consider Republicans NPR advocates. Sonmez only found NPR lovers among the Republicans to quote, and left out all the arguments about high salaries and liberal elitism and bias. In fact, the word “liberal” doesn't appear in the article: Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) said he appreciated some of NPR’s programming but added that “half the American people have never even heard of, much less even listened to, NPR.” Rep. Rich Nugent (R-Fla.) argued that those watching the House debate on Thursday were likely watching it on C-SPAN, which doesn’t receive federal funding. “A lot of us like NPR,” he said, later adding: “We’re not trying to harm NPR. We’re actually trying to liberate them from federal tax dollars.”
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on March 18, 2011. Filed under