How false is NPR report about conservative call to eradicate transgender people and PBS report crediting Democrats for Civil Rights?
NPR and PBS get **** four stars for fake news
On March 22 a reporter with NPR’s “Here and Now” radio program spoke of hundreds of so-called “anti-LGBT” bills being passed and proposed in various states and she said a speaker at a conservative convention called for “the eradication of transgender people.” Presumably, NPR was referring to Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles and his call for “transgenderism” to be eradicated in his March 4 CPAC speech.
Using “eradicated” was a bad word choice, but Knowles did not call for transgender people to be eradicated. He called for the ideology that deceives people into believing they can change their gender to be eradicated. I would not used the word “eradicate” even when speaking of an ideology because of the concerns it can raise about eradicating the people behind the ideology. I worry myself when I hear leftists talk about eradicating Trumpism, Christian beliefs or conservative political ideologies.
But in contrast to leftists who don’t clarify they aren’t calling for the eradication of Christians, conservatives or Trump supporters (and they sometimes do explicitly call for the eradication of such people), Knowles did clarify on Twitter he was not calling for transgender people to be eradicated.
After hearing from Daily Wire’s legal department, other media outlets changed their headlines to clarify Knowles called for “transgenderism,” not “transgender people,” to be eradicated. But weeks later, it appears NPR is still reporting the lie.
At the same time NPR reported weeks-old, debunked lies about American conservatives saying things about transgender people they never said, their reporters did not say a word about the Uganda law passed March 21, the day before, reportedly imposing a death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.”
On March 8 PBS Newshour reporter Judy Woodruff said in the 1960s the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed by Democrats. She claimed this caused more blacks to become Democrats and more racist whites to become Republicans.
Woodruff failed to report the fact that more Democrats opposed Civil Rights for blacks than did Republicans. She also failed to report the fact that Democrats did not have enough votes to pass the Civil Rights Act despite holding a large majority in Congress. It only passed because it had Republican support. A much higher percentage of Republicans voted for it than did Democrats.