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- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
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I have posted before about how I like to listen to NPR when I am out driving. Today I was on my return trip from lunch with an old friend and NPR was discussing Harris Rally yesterday. They played a clip of Harris declaring elements her economic plan as raising the minimum wage and eliminating taxation of tip income for service and hospitality workers.
The NPR hosts went to other elements of her rally before returning to Trump and mentioning that Trump has "also" endorsed the idea of not taxing tips.
The purposeful use of the word "also" comes across as him agreeing with Harris' idea.
Now you may have trouble hearing the bias, but that doesn't mean it is not there. This is just one of many subtle, but real, examples.
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What word would you suggest instead? "Also", or "too", do not indicate chronology. They indicate addition.
"Joe Biden was POTUS. George Washington was POTUS, also."
I think you're reaching, Mike. Not saying there is zero bias (that would be naive), but I don't think that's an example of it.
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What word would you suggest instead? "Also", or "too", do not indicate chronology. They indicate addition.
Addition, as is...after the fact.
Harris took this from Trump, but NPR's listeners will never know that. Which was his point.
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I think you're reaching, Mike. Not saying there is zero bias (that would be naive), but I don't think that's an example of it. - 1pg
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Perhaps. I hear it often enough when I am out driving, I will bring up a better example next time.
The problem always is the post that leaps to mind at the time is usually all forgotten about by the time I get back in front of a keyboard.
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I do think NPR has a "liberal bias", but that should not surprise anyone.
CNN did a better job by using the headline:
Harris endorses eliminating taxes on tips, touting policy first proposed by Trump
Fox still puts the mass media to shame when it comes to bias.
Alan
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"I do think NPR has a "liberal bias", but that should not surprise anyone."
Well no kidding. Reality has a "liberal bias," which is why conservatives have their own Wiki, "Conservapedia."
It's a MAGA-ical place where the stupid never stops...Evolution is just a "theory" and climate change is a hoax
and Obama wasn't born in America and creationism is real and abortion increases the risk of breast cancer
and the earth is 6,000 years old and Noah actually built that ark and
the January 6th insurrection was staged by Antifa, and the 2020 election was stolen by criminal mastermind Joe Biden
and Michelle Obama is secretly transgender and Trump tells the truth, and he has the biggest crowds ever and on and on with the stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia
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I used to listen to NPR on the radio while driving (and before that, a financial station). But I realized two things. First, that was my primary opportunity to listen to music. Second, the stories were usually meaty enough that I had to pay attention. I tend to focus (as in "oblivious to all else around me"), and when I'm driving I should really focus on driving. So I switched back to music while driving. More relaxing, too.
As far as the other poster's comment, it appears that facts seem to have a liberal bias. But facts are not biased. They are facts, and by definition have no "bias". I think the most NPR (and several other outlets I use) could be accused is editorial bias: what they choose to report. Not the actual facts of the reporting.
Compare and contrast to FOX, or OANN, or several others who misrepresent or flat-out lie. FOX already paid one settlement (for three-quarters of a billion dollars). OANN just settled a suit this summer. I think another FOX suit is pending, IIRC.
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As far as the other poster's comment, it appears that facts seem to have a liberal bias. But facts are not biased. They are facts, and by definition have no "bias". I think the most NPR (and several other outlets I use) could be accused is editorial bias: what they choose to report. Not the actual facts of the reporting.
That's amusing. NPR weaves its editorial bias in literally everything it airs.
Just like there is no "right side of history" - that's a boring statement usually from intellectually lazy folks who don't want to debate something - facts are just...facts. Statements of data.
How the facts are presented is where the screaming liberal bias comes in. Take this tips thing. Harris stole the idea from Trump, but NPR's audience of Chianti day drinkers doesn't and wouldn't know that.
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As far as the other poster's comment, it appears that facts seem to have a liberal bias. But facts are not biased. They are facts, and by definition have no "bias"
The saying means that liberals are getting the facts correct most of the time, while conservatives skew inconvenient facts to fit their narrative a lot.
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NPR biased?
good for them, others neutral or leaning left should follow w/out skimping on facts.
since MAGA, and effectively the current and future GOP, are unable to parse facts anyway, being neutral did not help in 2016 nor 2020.
