Proposition 8 gets big boost from unexpected quarter: NPR
Thursday, March 05, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Listeners waiting to hear the reasoned arguments of “angry gay-rights activists” during an extended National Public Radio (NPR) report this morning on California’s new ban on same-sex marriage … are … still … waiting. After an interview with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (whose position against Proposition 8 could be discounted for being entwined with his clearly expressed political ambitions), Morning Edition reporter Karen Grigsby Bates gave over national airtime exclusively to Proposition 8 backers who she presented in only the most glowing terms. (Gay-rights voices were limited to a couple sound-bite chants and quick-take gripes.) The Stranger’s Dan Savage details NPR’s lapse, including contact info for complaints.
4 Comments
Comment posted March 5, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
Hah hah. NPR is actually being balanced? Sounds good to me.
Comment posted March 6, 2009 @ 8:59 am
NPR lost its way under the cheny/bush admin. little right wing wackos have burroughed in and will be around for quite a while.
Comment posted March 6, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
Shame on NPR. I expected better out of them. Especially because we hold them in highest regards.
They gave all this airtime to the NAZIS of our time, the Prop 8 Proponents. These people have committed wholesale hate crimes that never get published and if they had their way gay and lesbian Americans would be exterminated in concentration camps.
NPR is better than this. They shouldn’t become CNN or MSNBC who have both marginalized the rallies and lied about the size of them.
Comment posted March 7, 2009 @ 3:20 am
The American Left seeks Totalitarianism under the guise of Democracy. They will oppose measures against their will with every tool at their disposal, judicial activism notwithstanding, until all protections against tyranny are eroded. Then the powerful will take the tool the Left has crafted and justifiably beat them to death with it.
Democracy exists, at least in part, to mediate policy differences in the population that would otherwise result in violence. The Constitution exists ostensibly to enshrine the position that the will of the people is supreme and that we are a country of laws. It is unfortunate that those most at risk by the erosion of these two foundations, the democratic system under which we live and the Constitution which is enveloped by it, have chosen to attack the shelter provided by undercutting the notion of the will of the people.
I hope for their sake that they either grasp what they are doing before the damage is too great or that they remain entirely oblivious once the damage has been done.
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