“Ombudsman” Is The New Green

A longtime friend of this blog writes:

In their usual holier-than-thou fashion, NPR ticked me off this morning. I sent the following complaint to the NPR ombudsman.
“On the morning broadcast of Friday, August 7, 2015, I heard the fact checkers make a very snide comment…that was at least 50% wrong. Scott Horsley and Steve Inskeep fact checked the GOP presidential debate of the previous evening. While discussing the responses of former Gov. Huckabee and Ben Carson the fact checkers made a very uncalled for remark that was factually incorrect.. The snide remark made by Scott Horsley was “One might remember Mitt Romney made similar claims in 2012, only to have President Obama poke fun at such anachronistic measurements, saying the military is using a lot fewer horses and bayonets than it used to.” While the statement is correct about horses it is absolutely incorrect about bayonets. The military has more bayonets in use today than it did in 1917 and President Obama was flat out wrong when he spoke it in 2012. NPR listeners were subjected to a snide remark for which Mr. Horsley’s facts were incorrect. We deserve better as listeners.

Your friend,
[Redacted]

I’ve noted in the past the deep regard Public Broadcasting has for being corrected by the peasants. With that in mind, and because you all have a right to know, I found a picture of NPR’s “ombudsman”:

Makes perfect sense now.

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August 11, 2015

Media Bias, Narrative For Sale!

Mitch Berg

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5 responses to ““Ombudsman” Is The New Green”

AlexG’sWankingMitten

August 11, 2015

I’ve noticed our local NPR affiliate down here is a lot more circumspect about it’s content. In fact, most of their local programming is decidedly a-political.

I guess they figured if they can’t help the leftist’s march to the sea, they’re not helping anyone at all.
kel

August 11, 2015

mittens,
the difference is in MN when the MPR/NPR folks walk out of the studio at the end of their shift they are happily enveloped in the progressive “cloud of unknowing” where it is unlikely that they will be confronted with any information contrary to their narrative of the day. The notion that someone might challenge them is of course appalling, but they know it isn’t likely to happen unless they’re in that bar in St Paul with the confederate flag.
DMA

August 11, 2015

a. I have not noticed that the local people’s radio is any less than 100% on board with pushing the leftest agenda.
b. If I’m wrong and you’re right maybe they’ve detected it is starting to affect fund raising?
c. The local people’s TV seems to be on a schedule of 4 weeks programming, 2 weeks fundraising.
bikebubba

August 11, 2015

More bayonets in place in the armed forces, and they’re even giving them to the police. Hopefully the police never use them–seems that they would be the exact wrong approach to, say, riots in Ferguson and the like. But don’t tell MPR that they actually need to consult data to figure out that a conservative is wrong; he is, ipso facto.
justplainangry

August 11, 2015

All things considered…