(04-18-2024, 11:30 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(04-18-2024, 10:49 AM)mikesez Wrote: NPR does not publish falsehoods.  They always say "it is alleged.." before saying something dubious.
As with other media outlets, the problem is not so much what they say, but what they choose to emphasize and what they choose to ignore.
The federal money they get is small potatoes.  Most of their funding is private, from listeners and wealthy trusts. As much as I dislike the government funding, I'd find it more distasteful for an elected political partisan to go after them directly.

Didn’t you tell me once that MSM bias is not determined by what they choose to omit from their reporting since they are unable to report all the facts?

No, I would have said the fact that not all facts can be reported means that perception of bias is inevitable, whether intentional bias exists or not.

It is pretty reliable, whenever the trope of "can you believe MSM is not reporting this" is played, and gets traction, MSM will report it within the next day. What I am saying is that the fact that stuff gets omitted is not sufficient evidence of bias.

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