re: #185 William Barnett-Lewis

While waiting for my son to finish his homework, my annoyance with NPR’s coverage boiled over and I sent this to their Ombudsman’s email:

The coverage of the recent government shutdown by a small minority of house members has been extremely poor. It has been especially poor in relation to the application of the “Magic Balance Fairy” by all the reporters involved. The attempt to portray both sides as equally to blame is odious in it’s intellectual dishonesty.

I realize that NPR is terrified of losing more of it’s federal funding, but the craven kowtowing to the GOP does no one - the listeners or the public in general - any good.

Is there any hope for NPR to actually report honestly on political matters or is it best to look for news about America in places like the BBC or Deutsche Welle?