NPR
I just yanked the earpiece out that was feeding NPR into my head. Another story about a black couple murdered in Georgia. I'm sorry to hear it but I've heard it before and don't want to again. There was terrible injustices done, I get that, but how long am I supposed to feel guilty for being born white?
Heck, while slavery was legal here, my ancestors were farming pototoes in Ireland. Apparently not too successfully, either, or they wouldn't have climbed onto the boat that brought them to Philadelphia in 1904.
I'm as liberal as the next guy (OK, not really) but NPR really irritates me. I like the format -- long, in-depth pieces that explore many facets of a story -- but the lefty point of view that renders every poor person a victim of inadequate government funding grates on me. Is no one featured in an NPR story EVER responsible -- at all -- for their plight?
After the stem cell veto, NPR actually offered a commentary by someone who supported Bush's point of view. I don't share that view and I was eager to hear a more thoughtful articulation of the argument against stem cell research than the president could offer. Of course the person they put on was such a whack-job moron that he made Bush sound like Churchill and made opponents of stem cell research sound like a bunch of redneck wingnuts who would like to turn the clock back to 1862, the year before the Emancipation Proclamation.
Which was precisely the aim, I'm sure. Probably not intentionally. The people who work at NPR sound like they live in a different world. To them, anyone to the right of John Kerry is a redneck wingnut who would like to turn the clock back to 1862, the year before the Emancipation Proclamation.
Heck, while slavery was legal here, my ancestors were farming pototoes in Ireland. Apparently not too successfully, either, or they wouldn't have climbed onto the boat that brought them to Philadelphia in 1904.
I'm as liberal as the next guy (OK, not really) but NPR really irritates me. I like the format -- long, in-depth pieces that explore many facets of a story -- but the lefty point of view that renders every poor person a victim of inadequate government funding grates on me. Is no one featured in an NPR story EVER responsible -- at all -- for their plight?
After the stem cell veto, NPR actually offered a commentary by someone who supported Bush's point of view. I don't share that view and I was eager to hear a more thoughtful articulation of the argument against stem cell research than the president could offer. Of course the person they put on was such a whack-job moron that he made Bush sound like Churchill and made opponents of stem cell research sound like a bunch of redneck wingnuts who would like to turn the clock back to 1862, the year before the Emancipation Proclamation.
Which was precisely the aim, I'm sure. Probably not intentionally. The people who work at NPR sound like they live in a different world. To them, anyone to the right of John Kerry is a redneck wingnut who would like to turn the clock back to 1862, the year before the Emancipation Proclamation.
posted by jack at 5:19 PM
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