I decided to react to a gratuitous bit of snipery about the ACA website from NPR this morning.
The culprit was whoever writes the junk that Steve Inskeep reads. Maybe Steve.
The hilarious thing was that a simple clickable email link on the NPR website FAILED.
I clicked the link and emailed the note.
My message, and NPR mailbot's reply, below the FM radio dial.
The note:
Folks, I heard a gratuitous bitelet this AM. Inskeep said something about the ACA website rollout being "disastrous."
He then switched to something about Iran.
This is sloppy and unprofessional reporting. First of all any connection to the long running Iran morass is tenuous at best.
Second, the choice of term - disastrous - is editorial and not reportorial.
Is a cranky website really a "disaster?" I thought the Japanese tsunami, the Philippine typhoon, the Titanic sinking, Hurricane Sandy, count as such.
The ACA website has, far as I know, killed no one. You are parroting a partisan talking point.
Up your game and review what ethical reporting really is.
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