Ok, first time diary, first attempt etc. Sorry, there will be no links/etc.
Just listened to the podcast of NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (WWDTM) for 3/31.
It's something I look forward to every week.
This time, however, I was shocked, alarmed, deeply disturbed to hear them play, within the first couple of minutes, a doctored version of Solicitor General Verrelli's opening statement at the Supreme Court. (I went to the SCOTUS website to verify, and you should too!)
I assume it was the RNC's version.
They proceeded to make a slew of jokes about it and at no point in the rest of the show did they issue a correction.
I assume they got taken in by the RNC version and weren't, well, "real" journalists and didn't question the source. So now that bit of disgusting propaganda has been swallowed by the NPR audience and the WWDTM podcast audience (quite sizeable, it's frequently in the top one or two in iTunes).... a little more below the squiqqly thing....
how does this get addressed?
Obviously apologies and corrections are in order.
And also inadequate.
There needs to be, on an ongoing basis, a more active and proactive effort in NPR news, entertainment and information shows (e.g., On The Media) to call out the radical abuses of the so-called conservatives of the right wing.
I guess the place to start is to (a) listen to the podcast (available in iTunes) (b) comment below (c) if you agree, contact NPR/WWDTM and complain.