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(Emphases about blaming the media mine) Seriously, WTF? What other way could they have reported that? They're refusing to back the bill without ACA extensions and repealing the cuts to health care programs. As far as reasons go and playing hardball, that's a pretty good one (or two).
And if NPR didn't include that info about Democrats refusing to back the R spending bill, then you all would be complaining that "Oh, the Democrats do nothing blah blah whine whine blah both sides".
As far as "the media" goes, NPR is pretty top-tier. I swear, I am starting to think half the people here just do not understand how journalism works.
"Republicans could pass their anti-human agenda any time they want by using reconciliation, a process that can only be used 3x per Senate term, but they have too much infighting to agree on which people need to be hurt the most".
I mean, I'm no journalist. I'm sure that could be tweaked better. Either way, the Dems aren't to blame here. Trump could pass this if he could get his party to cooperate.
Aside from mentioning the reconciliation process (which I agree could have been included), that's not even close to actual journalism. It might fly on from one of the talking heads spewing endless opinions shows on cable, but reputable outlets do not "report" that way.
Quality outlets also do not (or should not, anyway) point blame in such a brazen manner. They should report the facts and list some potential effects of those, but they shouldn't tell you how to feel or sink into the petty bickering of the subject matter.
I'm old-school and grew up before the plague of 24-hour cable news and worked for two different newspapers, so I'm, I guess, a little more sensitive to the sensationalist crap that gets called "news" these days. I guess what I'm saying is that this article passes my "sniff test".
I agree with you on quality outlets. My phrasing was definitely partisan and you're right, that's something NPR tries to avoid for the sake of journalistic integrity.
But, much like the tolerance paradox, journalistic integrity is great, but that and 3.50 still can't afford coffee.
Still, I, a left-wing hippie nut job, managed to pull out a sentence and read it as blaming the Dems.
Because NPR has tilted right for decades. They do it like that. "Just the facts, ma'am."
There's no such thing as an objective point of view. It's not possible.
What is possible is saying something with enough implied meaning that saying the blandest version of the official narrative is supporting it. In this case the official narrative is that Democrats are doing bad things.
Here's the difference: A lot of "low-tier" "news" outlets don't know how to do that so they just put their spin on it and call it a day. NPR doesn't work like that. Their audience is too smart for that. So - they have to sound like a 1948 MovieTone Newsreel. Black-and-white. Short, direct sentences. But if you look at those old MovieTone newsreels, you can pretty well grok their point of view pretty easily. Relentlessly American, patriarchal, strident.
Is anyone confused that the republiQan spending bill is extracting the maximum amount of money from the working class to give to the very wealthy? Is anyone confused that that's what's going on here? Democrats who have no power whatsoever have one chance and this is it - so why frame the story like the Democrats are doing this. Why? Because it's true - enough. And, by doing it that way we avoid blaming the republiQans for being truly disgusting lackeys for the billionaires. And, we avoid getting sued by trump. And, we want the republiQans to win anyway. That's why it reads like that.
This is not an outlier in their reporting. This is NPR. This is how they do.