Listener Letters: NPR's Reagan Coverage

[AP]

We hear reaction from our listeners about NPR coverage.

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=06-Jun-2004&prgId=2

"Most express displeasure." One listener says the guy hasn't been in the news for years. Why all the attention? Another says there were a few positive things that came out of his administration, but has to question the oberblown adulation for someone with a record that is mixed, at best.

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[daligirrl]

1. This is all right-wing media, nothing more. . .

I don't know anyone, even amongst my repub friends, who really gives a shit. I saw more angst at John Ritter's passing.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. On the same day that John Ritte dies, another TRUE AMERICAN....

HERO NAMED JOHNNY CASH DIED TOO!

I felt more sorrow when he passed then I did when I heard of RR's passing.

[lancdem]

4. I know several people who are already tired of it

and it's just been one day.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. NPR was comparing Ronnie to FDR

no wonder a lot of listeners were outraged. Speaking their names in the same breath is sacrilege!

[DeepModem Mom]

8. It seems there's been little mention of FDR re. D-Day coverage --

Certainly it is the soldiers, living and dead, who deserve the focus of this day, but I wonder if a Republican had been President 60 years ago, if our media would be heralding that President's leadership in its coverage. (And, at least one Republican proposed replacing FDR with Reagan on the dime, even before Reagan's death!)


On edit: MSNBC playing audio of FDR at this moment -- as his great, patrician voice would have been heard by radio listeners across the nation during WWII.

[taxidriver]

5. i was surprised how positively NPR convered the reagan legacy.

but i guess they cant criticize the newly deceased.

[taxidriver]

6. i was surprised how positively NPR convered the reagan legacy.

but i guess they cant criticize the newly deceased.

[saracat]

7. NPR is now under

Neocon control. The Admin made appointments to the Board giving them the majority. Be careful with NPR.