By Tim Graham May 7, 2021
National Public Radio is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week in a classic way: asking its fans for money. A fundraising email gushes, “From covering the Vietnam War in 1971 to the COVID-19 vaccination effort today, and everything in between, NPR has delivered fact-based news and trustworthy analysis to millions.”
Some of that “fact-based news” included “founding mother” Nina Totenberg’s attempts to ruin Douglas Ginsburg’s Supreme Court nomination (successful) and then Clarence Thomas’ nomination (unsuccessful). Years later, she did a syrupy sister act with feminist Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hosting RBG celebrations at awards shows and film festivals.
NPR dismissed the pre-election story about Hunter Biden’s alleged
laptop as an example of “pure distractions” and then had to issue a
correction to a January puff piece that had insisted the laptop story
was “discredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by
news organizations.”........To Read More......
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