{"id":447,"date":"2006-02-16T23:35:28","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T23:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/letter_to_nprs.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:47","slug":"letter_to_nprs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/letter_to_nprs.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Letter to NPR’s Morning Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday morning I heard a report<\/a> on NPR about the coming report (it was released on Wednesday, I think) detailing governement failures in the response to Katrina. They reported that it detailed “failures on all levels of government”. After the report there was commentary<\/a> on the “political impact of the Katrina report”.
\nNPR takes a bit of flack from conservatives, mostly, acused of being liberalin their reportting. I don’t dobut that much of te NPR staff is more liberal than conservative, but their reporting is usually fairly ballanced. Every now and then, however, they let their biases show, and this was one of them. They report on failures at all levels, then their comentary on the fall out Katrina report talked only about the President’s problems. And they didn’t limit is just to Katrina, they talked about the leak investigation, the lobbying scandal and even Chney’s hunting accident under the guise of fall out from the Katrina report.
\nI’m not useually the ltter writing type, but I decided to call them on this. THey read letters on Morning Edition on Thursdays, but they didn’t think mine was worthy. Here’s waht I wrote:<\/p>\n

I was disappointed in the commentary following the report this morning on the Katrina Report due out this week. The news story told how the report detailed failure at “all levels ” of government, but the commentary on the political fallout focused like a laser on the President. What of the failures at the state and local levels? If the failures were at all levels, why is the fallout only at the top? What is the fallout for the failures of Mayor Nagin or Governor Blanco?
\nI was then further disappointed when Cokie Roberts went into a litany of issues plaguing the president, the investigation into leaks, the lobbying controversy and even Mr. Cheney’s unfortunate hunting accident. What did all of this have to do with fallout from the Katrina report?
\nMany people, conservatives especially, like to paint NPR as a liberal organization. However, I find that your reporting is usually pretty even handed, but occasionally you let your colors show. This was one of those instances, where failures at “all levels” was turned into a focus on one. You can do better. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BTW – This post, in all its glory and creativity marks 400 posts here at salguod.net. Too bad I didn’t have anything more meaningful to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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