The original draft of this email was sent to NPR congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell and copied to Morning Edition co-anchors and several NPR executives following Ms. Snell’s failure to detail any of the GOP’s criticisms of the Democrats’ drunken-sailor spending bill. (Apologies to drunken sailors.)
Dear Ms. Snell,
You’re now effectively functioning as a paid Democratic operative, and you and NPR should be ashamed. In your live update with Morning Edition anchor Rachel Martin today, you spent barely a sentence acknowledging that the GOP indeed has “substantive” criticisms of the Democrats’ nearly $2 trillion “emergency” spending bill that curiously leaves the vast majority of appropriated funds unspent for years. But you never deigned to detail any of those criticisms.
No wonder “polling” shows the bill to be “popular,” as you dutifully if misleadingly reported. If propaganda-generating “journalists” like yourself never report criticisms, why wouldn’t the public favor printing still more money, inviting inflation, a bond market collapse, an erosion of work habits and evermore government control over the lives of individuals?
Darren McKinney, Washington, D.C.