NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty -- Fundies Flunky

[saltpoint]

For some time now, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, NPR's Religion Correspondent, has been reporting on spiritual matters, emphasizing the pure and good motivations of fundamentalist Christians and the immoral motivations of those not in the fold.

She reported this morning on on Morning Edition on the Nebraska challenge to same-sex marriage, using the same nuanced-but-obvious bias.

NPR's Morning edition web site is: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/

I sent this letter a moment ago to NPR:

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Re: Today's report by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Barbara Bradley Hagerty's extraordinarily one-sided report this morning top-loaded the right-wing fundamentalist view, citing those in opposition to "activist judges" as "moral...and having integrity," and deliberately under-represented anyone in favor of a progressive reading of constitutional law in Nebraska and elsewhere.

Why was this report not edited?

Why is this reporter's obvious personal bias allowed to be sustained?

You are National PUBLIC Radio and should not be beholden to biased reporting which slants so obviously toward private religious expression.

Do your job. Edit Ms. Hagerty's reporting and tell her that some of your listeners are on to her con game for Christ.
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Morning Edition is at: [e-mail] for anyone on DU wishing to comment, yay or nay, on Hagerty's reporting.

ed.: program website added

[katinmn]

1. good response

Her "reporting" sounds more like an infomercial and should be noted as such.

[saltpoint]

2. Yes, katinmn.

Her voice DOES sound like that! Maybe she does those late-night infomercials on the side for a little shopping money or something.

[katinmn]

3. NPR ought to hire some better filters

or they're going to stand for National Public Relations

[AP]

4. To paraphrase Citizen Kane:" You supply the prose poems and ...

... and NPR will supply the values & morality war."

--
BERNSTEIN
(reading)
The food is marvelous in the Blue states and the
women are beautiful stop I could
send you prose poems of fir trees and
sunrises and golden sunsets blending in
far off landscapes but don't feel right
in spending your money for this stop
there's no values war in America regards Wheeler.

THATCHER
You see! There hasn't been a true word -

KANE
I think we'll have to send our friend
Wheeler a cable, Mr. Bernstein. Of
course, we'll have to make it shorter
than his, because he's working on an
expense account and we're not. Let
me see -
(snaps his fingers)
Mike!

MIKE
(a fairly tough customer
prepares to take dictation,
his mouth still full of food)
Go ahead, Mr. Kane.

KANE
Dear Wheeler -
(pauses a moment)
You provide the prose poems - I'll
provide the morals war.

[saltpoint]

5. Hi, AP.

I surely did like your post. Thank you.

[AP]

6. NPR makes it easy. Yellow journalism does have a precendent...

...and clever people have criticized it long before I came along.