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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (12905)10/18/2003 6:36:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793772
 
But by coming across as a pro-Franken partisan rather than a neutral and curious journalist, Gross did almost nothing that might have allowed the interview to develop.


I thought that Terry Gross came across as neutral and curious - but within an interview framework focused entirely on Bill O'Reilly as a political media phenomenon, which forced him to do nothing but defend himself against all the slings and arrows coming his way, without being allowed to put his own viewpoint out. So he got more and more prickly and defensive, and Terry Gross didn't get why; apparently it seemed like the only way to approach the interview to her. I was surprised because Terry Gross is so good and so honest.

A nice parallel to the way NPR presents the news in general. Like the following "objective" intro from Morning Edition, which Sullivan also quotes:

Bob Edwards: This is Morning Edition from NPR news. I’m Bob Edwards. Increasingly it seems the Bush Administration’s foreign policy is running into trouble. The post-war picture in Iraq and Afghanistan is highly unstable. The road map to peace in the Middle East is in tatters. There’s growing unease over the possibility that North Korea and Iran are pursuing nuclear weapons. Friends of the United States are not supportive. Overall, the policies of the United States are still very unpopular around the world. The Bush Doctrine, a preference for unilateral military action and a disdain for multinational diplomacy, is under scrutiny more than ever. NPR’s Mike Shuster reports.
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