NPR public editor rejects reports of violence at Nevada convention

[Cheese Sandwich]

Elizabeth Jensen Ombudsman/Public Editor

Fact-Checking NPR's Reports On Vegas 'Violence'

Donovan and I disagree on this; "violence," which NPR more often uses to describe events in war zones, seems too strong a term to me based on the evidence I have seen so far. And the politics team's own decision to avoid the word "thrown" renders this online-only introduction to Keith's piece misleading, unless other eyewitnesses come forward to clarify the events: "Sen. Bernie Sanders is answering for violence at the Nevada Democratic Party's state convention, where his supporters threw chairs and hurled obscenities as Hillary Clinton claimed the most delegates."

http://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2016/05/18/478579787/fact-checking-nprs-reports-on-vegas-violence

[FlatBaroque]

1. THEY are terrified. WE are at the door.

A reckoning is at hand, no matter how hard the media tries, including National Pentagon Radio, to extinguish the flames of a fire that they can no longer control without violent repression, which is coming.

[bahrbearian]

2. I'm already at the gates.

[mmonk]

3. +1

[Politicalsanity]

4. Something to consider

The thing is that they are setting the stage for violence and raising the bar by "reporting" incidents of violence that never actually happened. And they are actively trying to goad people into acts of aggression, by systematically trying to disenfranchise legitimate voters and potential delegates from getting involved and being part of the system.

[rurallib]

5. Heard that story this morning and just shook my head

it almost sounded as if NPR read some wire stories and formulated a story from that.
As I do so often anymore, I then turned my radio off. NPR is about the only over-the-air radio to listen to and it just seems to be swirling down to the fox level.

[lagomorph777]

6. Are they going to put this retraction on the air?

Or are they now a Fox subsidiary?

[rurallib]

7. I would have no idea what they will do

not exactly sure if there is anything to retract - hyped up language, maybe?

They regularly have right wing pundits on as commentators so NPR continues to get hard to listen to.

Not that I want them to be a democratic party mouthpiece - I would love to see them return to reporting facts. That appears to long in the past, sadly

[lagomorph777]

8. This is factually wrong (per their admission): "his supporters hurled chairs"

And I know you understand my question was rhetorical.