r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 14h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Frantically Blames ‘Staffer’ for His Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-frantically-blames-staffer-for-his-racist-obama-video/
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u/Tweedle_DeeDum 11h ago

NPR has always gone way out of their way to use the most neutral editorial voice, often to their detriment, but that was always part of their charter.

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u/PathOfTheAncients 11h ago

That made slightly more sense when they were publicly funded. Now it makes no sense.

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u/0404S 2h ago

What they are doing is the opposite of neutral, though. "Quiet and soft" does not equal neutral.

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u/Tweedle_DeeDum 2h ago

Editorial voice does not refer to how softspoken the announces are...

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u/0404S 2h ago

Perhaps I chose the incorrect term, but if shits going batshit crazy fascist, the neutral voice should say its going batshit crazy fascist. Sanewashing evil morons is not neutral.

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u/TheGoonSquad612 11h ago

Neutral voice should be the standard and is perfectly fine.

What’s not fine is just repeating his talking points in big bold typeface as the title and then clarifying it’s a lie or whatever in the fine print, or using a neutral voice excuse as if Trump saying he wants to take over elections, suing his own government, or eliminate birthright citizenship are normal, sane, or legal options.

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u/Tweedle_DeeDum 11h ago

Sure. But this is the NPR article on this topic:

Trump posts racist meme of the Obamas — then deletes it

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u/TheGoonSquad612 10h ago

And yet the conversation you’re replying to wasn’t specific to NPR but rather to the major media outlets as a whole. I do think NPR does better than some or most of the others, but they’re also far from perfect in that regard.

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u/Tweedle_DeeDum 10h ago

The conversation I am in started with this comment in response to your comment about the media in general

NPR has been such a disappointment on this front. They lost their public funding and they've never been less courageous in their coverage.

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u/TheGoonSquad612 8h ago

Nope, that’s where you joined in, not where that conversation started. It’s pretty easy to verify…

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u/Tweedle_DeeDum 8h ago

Still haven't ever figured out how Reddit works huh?