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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NPR is absurdly biased politically.

It never should have received public funding.  Trump is merely correcting a longstanding wrong.[/quote]

Help me understand this sentiment. Their news is not overwhelmingly biased. They have an in depth conversation about the news, interviewing people, and opinions on solutions are given toward the end. NPR is statist, as in they believe the state can solve many problems, but the opinion is not crammed down your throat like it is with cable news.

It’s so bizarre to me that people can’t understand these important differences. [/quote]

You're not objective.  There are organizations that rate media on bias and NPR is consistently considered leftist. At some point in the mid-2010s I had to stop listening to them because the bias was so intense. I switched to CNN. [/quote]

NPR is in the middle, not even skews left. More center than CNN.

https://guides.library.harvard.edu/newsleans/thechart#s-lg-box-32139330

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Gaslighting.  They said the Hunter Biden laptop was a non-story.  They can do that without my money.[/quote]

Oh oh oh the LAPTOP, the LAPTOP!!!!

Y'all hooted and hollered about vast multinational, multimillion dollar bribery and corruption schemes and how there was child porn and all kinds of other crazy shit on that laptop.

But all that came out of it was that he had a drug problem and lied on his 4473 when he bought a gun.   So yea, it pretty much did end up a non- story.[/quote]

If the contents of the laptop were so inconsequential, as you opine, why did 51 intelligent agents, the DNC, and the MSM, as well as Hillary, Obama, and Biden insist that the laptop was Russian disinformation? That conspiracy which three the 2020 election to Biden is.far more important than what was originally wasn't on the laptop.   Who does such a broad and deep political conspiracy over nothing?[/quote]

They didn't say the laptop itself was disinformation.

They said timing, the framing, the release and aspects of the narrative were the disinformation, along with the social media distortion and amplification of the story.

The timing was perfect "October Surprise" material, just weeks before the election.

The release was highly suspect, with unusual sourcing via Rudy Giuliani who had just met with a known Russian agent, Andriy Derkach prior.  https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276

The framing and narrative was extremely similar to past Russian tactics, mixing real info (the existence of the actual laptop) with fake info (allegations of a massive bribery and corruption scheme, of child porn and other things).  The Russians did the same with the Macron leaks. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/10/31/the-story-of-hunter-biden-and-the-diminishing-returns-to-disinformation

And then it was heavily amplified on social media by foreign actors.  https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-laptop-jim-jordan-facebook-disinformation-twitter-1767369

These are important factors, and if you keep saying "The 51 officials LIED" you are willfully ignoring that reality and are, yourself peddling a dishonest narrative, just as how the right wing ignores the fact that Russia DID meddle in our 2016 (and subsequent elections) via disinfo campaigns and that it does not have to mean they hacked into voting machines and changed votes.  Every time I keep hearing the right wing bleat on about that I have to wonder if they are just brazenly dishonest and disingenuous, or just genuinely too stupid to understand nuance.   Which is it in your case, PP?   Are you smart enough to understand nuance?  If so then stop the disingenuous and dishonest narratives.[/quote]

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