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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
NPR could get sued for putting out false news just like any newspaper. So, that would make NPR pretty conscientious and reliable. As a large worldwide organization, they would have people always available to cross-check their stories for reliability.
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Some climatologist applies for a federal grant in which he proposes to do a study to show coral reefs are decreasing due to human activity. Since his proposal meets the approval of the flavor of the month club, he gets $2 million. He completes his study, and surprise of all surprises, he concludes man's activity is killing the coral reefs. If he's really good and instills fear that this is happening very quickly, he'll probably get another grant for being such a good lap dog. Now NPR reports it. It's not "false news", they can't be "sued". It's just wrong. NPR's due diligence would be to verify that this scientist is real, and he really did a study, but not to critique it.
But I like the idea----there's about a million "reports" that I'd like to sue the MSM for airing.