This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: FW: Stop Media Monopoly

 
 
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:20:23 -0400 "Nancy Szerlag" <szerlag@earthlink.net> writes:
 
> Fran - I am an NPR junkie and I donate annually.
 
Well, I have to tell this story. And then duck.
 
Several months ago ATC did a story about me, though I wasn't mentioned by name. I missed it, but I was recognizable enough that several friends called me about it. The story was related by a former friend of many years, a person who had considerable political differences with me and had stopped talking to me the day after the Supreme Court decision that settled the 2000 election. The story had several falsehoods and false implications that impugned my character. (Maybe that's why I was recognizable.).
 
No one at NPR ever contacted me for confirmation or comment, though it would have been easy to do so. Many of you folks work for newspapers. What would happen to one of your reporters if he did a story without bothering to check with the subject of the story? In fact, it probably would never get past the editor.
 
Then a couple of years ago NPR read a letter I had written. They edited out exactly five words, which is probably their right. But in this case, loss of those words totally reversed the meaning of the letter from wryly critical of NPR to praising NPR.
 
These are distortions that I know about only because I was personally involved.  Who knows how much is warped that I don't even know about. No, I don't have a whole lot of respect for NPR.
 
D
_______________________________________________
gardenwriters mailing list
gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gardenwriters

GWL has searchable archives at:
http://www.hort.net/lists/gardenwriters

Send photos for GWL to gwlphotos@hort.net to be posted
at: http://www.hort.net/lists/gwlphotos

Post gardening questions/threads to
"Organic-Gardening" <organic-gardening@lists.ibiblio.org>

For GWL website and Wiki, go to
http://www.ibiblio.org/gardenwriters
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index