I mean, I agree that it’s stupid to not be an environmentalist, but it sounds like you’re criticizing NPR for correctly using the english language and adhering to journalistic practices
Im not old enough to remember any reporting at the time, but I have found NPR to be one of the best mainstream sources of news. These critiques are valid, but feel the typical leftist purity test
Of course NPR did not ban the word “torture”—but it did, according to ombud Alicia Shepard (6/21/09) a few months earlier, decide “to not use the term ‘torture’ to describe techniques such as waterboarding but instead [use] ‘harsh interrogation tactics,'” because “the role of a news organization is not to choose sides in this or any debate.”
Yep. Thats it. Don’t pick a side between the fascist rapist and the progressive. No no no!
NPR is highly critical of [insert atrocity here]. I doubt you can find an example where they’re not.
That’s just how headlines work. “Experts say X,” “Politician says Y” – that’s inoffensive.
Environmentalist is a well-understood term with meaning. There are people who are not environmentalists. Yeah it is ridiculous that anyone isn’t
Everyone was an environmentalist until they coined the term.
They could have coined something to mean anti-environment before that but they didn’t. I wonder why.
(Not that NPR coined it. That’s too bold for them)
I mean, I agree that it’s stupid to not be an environmentalist, but it sounds like you’re criticizing NPR for correctly using the english language and adhering to journalistic practices
The way they do those things is, to the point, centrist at best.
Not once did they run a report about “enhanced interrogation” using the actual word for what it is. Not once.
So, I left.
Eh? https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164916991/looking-back-on-shocking-revelations-u-s-forces-tortured-iraqis-at-abu-ghraib
Im not old enough to remember any reporting at the time, but I have found NPR to be one of the best mainstream sources of news. These critiques are valid, but feel the typical leftist purity test
Oh in 2023? Well that’s useful.
I get it! For those like me who are lacking context, here’s a decent article:
https://fair.org/home/update-npr-doesnt-ban-torture-but-offers-euphemisms-to-use-in-its-place/
Nice find!
Yep. Thats it. Don’t pick a side between the fascist rapist and the progressive. No no no!