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Gary,<br><br>I didn't say anything about any sort of NPR bias. Why are you claiming I did?<br><br>I asked you 'Are you saying that Nina Totenberg spins her
reporting on the Supreme Court? How?'<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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?<br> <br>Can you point to something she said that verifies your claim, or is it simply the fact that she broke the story?<br><br>Sunil<br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: jampot@roadrunner.com<br>To: whayman@roadrunner.com; sunilramalingam@hotmail.com<br>CC: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] NYTimes: The Big Hate<br>Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:26:53 -0700<br><br>
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<font face="Arial">Nina Totenberg on General Jerry Boykin:</font><BR>
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<font face="Arial">"I hope he’s not long for this world."</font><BR>
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<font face="Arial">On Senator Jesse Helms:</font><BR>
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<font face="Arial">"If the "Good Lord" knew justice, Senator Jesse Helms will
"get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get
it."</font><BR>
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<font face="Arial">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.</font><BR>
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<font face="Arial">onward...</font><BR>
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<font face="Arial">"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."</font><BR>
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<font face="Arial">I guess Mr. Ramalingam and Mr. Hayman must be right, no
liberal bias at NPR, no sir, none at all.</font><BR>
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