When Your Media Are ‘Disappointed’ by Opposition to Bigotry

[Judi Lynn]

When Your Media Are ‘Disappointed’ by Opposition to Bigotry

By Janine Jackson
Mar 17 2016


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Cokie Roberts

When Cokie Roberts is your firebrand, things have come to quite a pass.
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As the aggressive behavior of his supporters becomes as much of a story as the violence implied in his politics, Donald Trump is bringing together folks who agree on little else to denounce him. It’s true Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have policies in some ways even more regressive than Trump’s, but then neither of them is openly pining for the days when protesters were carried off on stretchers.

Turnout by thousands of appalled citizens led to the cancellation of Trump’s Chicago rally, and a coalition of public interest groups, including MoveOn, Color of Change, Greenpeace and Jobs with Justice, released an open letter calling for a mass Nonviolent Mobilization to Stand Up to what they called a “five alarm fire” for democracy.

So it might not seem extreme for Cokie Roberts, commentator emeritus at NPR, to say in a column that Trump’s nomination would be a “devastating blow” to the US’s reputation around the world.

Nevertheless, Roberts’ column was too much for the public radio network that many insist leans left. So Roberts was brought on Morning Edition (3/14/16) to be admonished by host David Greene:

Objectivity is so fundamental to what we do. Can you blame people like me for being a little disappointed to hear you come out and take a personal position on something like this in a campaign?

More:
http://fair.org/home/when-your-media-are-disappointed-by-opposition-to-bigotry/

[whereisjustice]

1. NPR is careful not to upset the mega corp sponsers.. just bland vignetes of recycled news

[highoverheadspace]

3. I gave up on NPR after Bush had them infiltrated with right wing stooges.

They used to be quite good. Nowadays they are simply another propaganda mouthpiece. One that relies on its past reputation in order to keep US citizens duped.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Cokie Roberts is simply reporting what has been said around the world about Trump

She may have erred in making it sound like opinion (I didn't read it) but it is undeniable that people around the world and the US have been saying that Trump would be disastrous for the US position in the world.

[Orrex]

4. NPR is full of shit

Cokie has been delivering unfiltered pro-Republican rhetoric for many months during her Monday morning screeds. I enjoy listening to her so that I can be told what the silly Democrats are doing wrong every week, in fact. I've never heard her give objective commentary in her role at NPR, so it's bullshit and hypocrisy for them to complain about her now.

To her credit, Roberts stated outright that she's not a journalist; she's a commentator. As such, she has no burden of objectivity, so she did nothing wrong in calling Trump out for his insanity.