Subject: Letter Alert Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:31:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Purdom > * From tto001@alpha.morningside.edu (Orwig Timothy T) - I have long been a > fan of Nina Totenberg's reportage on National Public Radio, and have come to > trust her. > Therefore I was horrified to hear her on a political pundit show this > weekend (McLaughlin Group?) agreeing with right-wing columnist Charles > Krauthammer on > how repulsed they were by the idea of gay marriage. > Similarly, when she reported the Supreme Court decision on Colorado's > Amendment 2 this evening on All Things Considered, she claimed that the > Colorado voters had passed the law by a "landslide" when the majority was > only 53%. After a report that heavily favored Will Perkins and others > opposed to the Supreme Court ruling, she ended her report claiming that the > decision had to do with "permissiveness" in our society. > Once again I was angered and saddened that a usually objective reporter > would resort to such biased coverage of what I believe to be a basic civil > rights issue. Totenberg does not have to agree with me, but she does have > the responsibility to attempt to be unbiased in her reporting. Nina Totenberg NPR News 635 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001 FAX: 202-414-3329 atc@npr.org -- Chris Purdom phone:610-993-1134 Development Team Leader email: purdom@rabbit.com Tangram Enterprise Solutions homepage: http://www.tesi.com/~cpurdom/ One person with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson