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Wow NPR is being down voted....
It's because this attempted neutral stance of "equal treatment" from NPR (and Politifact earlier) is massively benefiting Trump. People won't absorb the nuances between Harris' statements "lacking in context" and Trump's outright outrageous lies, they'll barely even read the article at best. So the effect is only a perpetuation of the sentiment "well, it looks like both sides lie so they're equally bad" which plays right into Trump's hands.
Did you even read the article? NPR also published the same format about Trump's convention speech which covered 162 false and misleading statements and is linked in the beginning of this article. Also, if you read the content of this piece, most of the explanations just make Trump look bad.
They only care about sources that contribute to the echo chamber, all others are Russian propaganda, Russian bots, etc.
Nah, even good sources put out trash articles. And in this case, this is a garbage dump article.
Its a mealymouthed attempt at being CeNtRiSt and show that they hold BoTh SiDeS aCcOuNtAbLe. Problem is, they're bringing up the lamest shit, leading to this bullshit garbage to be used to show how both trump and Harris both lie.
Yeah. It sure is great watching Democrats turn against the most benign, inoffensive, and liberal-friendly news channel in the country because they attempted the most basic level of neutral journalistic rigor (and even had to explain in their article the concept of neutral journalistic rigor).
Makes me super-optimistic for the future of democracy.
I can't wait for Democrats to accuse NPR of being Russian assets.