Posted by
cehwiedel on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:26:04 PM
Tim Graham at NewsBusters,
while reporting on NPR's coverage of global-warming proposals, spotlights an interesting relationship between California's two Senators:
With Democrats returning to power in the House and Senate, political
reporters touched on how they felt abused and ignored during their time
in the minority. But National Public Radio isn’t treating the
Republicans now as a minority. They’re treating them as nonexistent in
some stories. On Friday’s Morning Edition broadcast, reporter Elizabeth
Shogren assembled an entire story on new Democratic proposals to halt
global warming, but there were no Republicans, no energy industry
representatives, and no warming skeptics. They only heard new socialist
Sen. Bernie Sanders saying "one has got to be a moron" not to be
concerned.
No one in the Shogren story
was a "liberal" (not to mention a socialist – Sanders was merely
described as "independent.") The proposed bills weren’t liberal either,
just "aggressive." It was the Bernie Sanders-Barbara Boxer bill versus
the Dianne Feinstein bill, which seemed conservative by comparison.
I have myself noted that Dianne Feinstein — at most center-left — appears conservative in comparison to Barbara Boxer. It's almost a good cop - bad cop routine to make conservative Californians slump in gratitude for the mere existence of Senator Feinstein.
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