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Let’s first dispose of Garvin’s assertion that FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) is a financial supporter of NPR. You could say that I am a financial supporter of the Chicago Tribune because on occasion I buy a copy–FAIR has once or twice purchased some cassettes from NPR, if NPR chooses to list them as a financial supporter that’s their problem in veracity.
And again, in his reply, Garvin offers only one bit of anecdotal evidence, alleging an NPR bias in favor of the Democrats. Again I must refer to FAIR’s NPR study, comprised of four months of 2,296 monitored stories identified from 5,507 sources of government and basically conservative think tanks. We at Chicago Media Watch/FAIR, however, are grateful to perceptive members of the Reader audience who wrote or called in for free copies of the study (still available at 312-792-6436 or P.O. Box 10656, zip 60610).
