They have a good track record to owning up to their mistakes, though (Reply #18)

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Mon Apr 1, 2013, 02:50 PM

Orrex (59,567 posts)

18. They have a good track record to owning up to their mistakes, though

Far better and more thorough than conventional news outlets.

I didn't hear this particular show, but I'll be interested to see how they address the backlash.

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31 replies	Author	Time	Post
Trends with benefits, This American Life drinks the kool aide. [View all]	Warren Stupidity	Mar 2013	OP
I think they are getting called out on it.	Iris	Mar 2013	#1
Here - Media Matters and International Business Times	Iris	Mar 2013	#3
Let us know.	Dawson Leery	Mar 2013	#4
Look up!	Iris	Mar 2013	#5
NPR has come a long way from the Fire Sign Theater to this dreck .	olddots	Mar 2013	#2
Mostly it's being driven by people over 50 who can't get hired anywhere	Warpy	Mar 2013	#6
The stupid piece couldn't even substantiate that claim.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#24
I too was furious with that hack and her slanted piece of so called work.	Bluenorthwest	Mar 2013	#7
A woman I know lost her mother, for whom she was the caregiver	LiberalEsto	Mar 2013	#8
Not according to TAL.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#12
I only caught a few moments of it, and I was seeing red.	Geoff R. Casavant	Mar 2013	#9
The Bush administration's "gift" to NPR--a bunch of assholes hired by his appointees during his	MADem	Mar 2013	#10
I could be wrong but I don't think NPR has any government appointed directors.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#11
CPB does. And they have oversight over both PBS and NPR. Background....	MADem	Apr 2013	#23
I remember when this happened. The Capitol Steps had a song about it...	winter is coming	Apr 2013	#26
I used to love going to see those guys--I am a fan of that kind of cleverness!	MADem	Apr 2013	#27
not the first time tal has presented the neolib POV	HiPointDem	Apr 2013	#13
Yeah, people just love poverty, that's why all the well-off are so eager to give their money away.	bemildred	Apr 2013	#14
Well,	GiveMeFreedom	Apr 2013	#15
Me Too	otohara	Apr 2013	#16
The American Life gets a lot right generally, but when they get something wrong...	Javaman	Apr 2013	#17
They have a good track record to owning up to their mistakes, though	Orrex	Apr 2013	#18
Me too.	Javaman	Apr 2013	#19
Yeah...	Orrex	Apr 2013	#20
So far they are "standing by the story" despite having already made corrections.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#21
Yeah, I saw that after I posted	Orrex	Apr 2013	#22
Oh and the "comment on" for this crap is exquisite.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#25
Wow truly sickening exchanges @ the NPR blog-	lunasun	Apr 2013	#29
Sadly those comments don't surprise me america was one of the earliest supporters of eugenics	Arcanetrance	Apr 2013	#31
did u listen to the very end? she realizes that no one in that town	Liberal_in_LA	Apr 2013	#28
Yeah that was the part where she almost fill into a pit of truth.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#30

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