[Vision2020] NYTimes: The Big Hate

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Gary,

I didn't say anything about any sort of NPR bias.  Why are you claiming I did?

I asked you 'Are you saying that Nina Totenberg spins her 
    reporting on the Supreme Court?  How?'

Neither the comment of Boykin nor Helms have anything to do with her coverage of the Supreme Court, though of course they tell us something about her personal views.  But my question wasn't about her personal views, it was about whether she was spinning her reports about the Supreme Court.

Now I didn't listen to any of her reports about Thomas' confirmation hearings. I didn't listen to NPR back then, and while on the job as a laborer I got to listen either to music or Rush Limbaugh, and if he quoted her I sure don't remember. 

Did you listen to any of her reporting then, or are you relying on the same Google search that provided the Helms and Boykin quotes?
 
Can you point to something she said that verifies your claim, or is it simply the fact that she broke the story?

Sunil
From: jampot at roadrunner.com
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] NYTimes: The Big Hate
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:26:53 -0700











Nina Totenberg on General Jerry Boykin:

 

"I hope he’s not long for this world."

 

On Senator Jesse Helms:

 

"If the "Good Lord" knew justice, Senator Jesse Helms will 
"get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get 
it."

 

Additionally, you didn't have to listen to more than a few 
minutes of Totenberg's coverage of Justice Thomas' confirmation hearing to 
discern that she was of the belief that Anita Hill walked on water and that 
Thomas was the scum on the pond. Bias? Oh no.

 

onward...

 

"NPR’s own official ombudsman, Jeffrey Dvorkin, admitted a 
liberal bias in NPR’s talk programming. The daily program "Fresh Air with Terry 
Gross" – a 60-minute talk show about the arts, literature, and also politics – 
airs on 378 public-radio stations across the fruited plain. Gross recently 
became a hot topic on journalism Web sites for first having a friendly, giggly 
interview with "satirist" Al Franken, promoting his obnoxious screed against 
conservatives on September 3, and then on October 8, unloading an accusatory, 
hostile interview on Bill O’Reilly. She pressed the Fox host to respond to the 
obnoxious attacks of Franken and other critics. Dvorkin ruled: "Unfortunately, 
the [O'Reilly] interview only served to confirm the belief, held by some, in 
NPR's liberal media bias....by coming across as a pro-Franken partisan rather 
than a neutral and curious journalist, Gross did almost nothing that might have 
allowed the interview to develop."

 

I guess Mr. Ramalingam and Mr. Hayman must be right, no 
liberal bias at NPR, no sir, none at all.

 

g


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