I apologize for the DailyHowler-like rant, but I'm posting this because I'm just mad as heck and I want as many people as possible to give NPR a piece of their mind. Peter Pan posted a diary ystdy that touched on this, but I felt the need to go into much greater detail.
Richard Harris's and Bob Mondello's comments in their May 24th review of "An Inconvenient Truth" left me with that mild aftertaste of disgust that has become quite familar to me in listening to NPR.
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My revulsion is due to my growing recognition that NPR, like the rest of "MainStream Media," vitiates itself with meaningless "balance" and contorts itself to find "controversy" in order to appear unbiased, and in the process sacrifices the truth.
Harris spends about 16 seconds (out of a 500 second segment) near the start conceding that Gore is right, then spends the rest of the time elaborating on the "Gore exaggerates" theme that was so familiar in 2000.
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