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by lobf 991 days ago
Please link me a single story you think NPR was untruthful about.
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NPR dutifully ran the "Saddam Weapons of Mass Destruction" *fake* 100s of times with utter sincerity.

ps- also the "dumping babies on the ground" fake too IIR, but maybe only a few times on that one. Congressional testimony on camera by a daughter of a State Department official IIR to justify the Kuwait invasion by Bush I

True, but not evidence of the left wing bias originally claimed at the top of this thread
Almost every issue on the 2A they discuss is untruthful. The Rittenhouse case comes to mind immediately where they lied about all the encounters that were proven wrong in court. They avoid anything that makes the left look bad. Lying by omission is still lying. They continuously link stories to racism, lgqbtq, "people of color" that have nothing to do with any of that as well.

Keep listening to them if you want. I used to be an avid listener, just realize that they've lost a TON of loyal listeners due to their heavily biased reporting in the last few years.

Here's a fun one for ya. They backtracked on it after not getting away with it but there are many many more where no one notices and they just get away with it.

https://news.yahoo.com/npr-claims-limited-scientific-evidenc...

I can't say I agree with the person you're replying to, but i distinctly remember being quite shocked by this https://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/16/tech/mobile/npr-american-...
to be fair, that article is about PRI, not NPR. They are not related.
not really possible since the people that planned and staged the thing the story was about were pretending to actually do something when they hired people and rented things to fake an origin story that was then covered by the news while another team that the first team wasn't aware of went a bit overboard and brought in surface-to-air missiles and shot down a passenger plane full of dying people.

you see, the issue is not NPR being untruthful. the issue is NPR not even having a chance to check. member how "logic"/"rationality" works on faked premises? so smooth and yummy.