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Why on earth would NPR accept that deal? I thought the whole point of public radio was that it was that by relying on donations it could maintain its independen
by c3534l 10y ago
Why on earth would NPR accept that deal? I thought the whole point of public radio was that it was that by relying on donations it could maintain its independence and objectivity. There is no longer any reason for them to exist.
- tarequeh 10y agoIt's hard for me to understand that why NPR would give up their journalistic freedom to receive the briefing one day early. Is it that kind of a deal-breaker to report an FDA announcement a day later than some others?
- godshatter 10y agoIn a perfect world, NPR would have done their article a day late, with the proper quotes from those affected, and would have explained in a footnote that this information would have been out a day earlier except that NPR could not ethically agree with the FDAs terms which were blah, blah, blah.
- aetherson 10y agoThen, for the next story, the FDA wouldn't even tell NPR about the possibility of the briefing, so NPR would start researching their story when other news organizations published their stories. The NPR would be release its story several days after the people who had the scoop, and fairly likely, its article would sink and vanish.