NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by kenjackson on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:29PM (#35544473)

It does disclose it... this is at the end of the article:

Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik and edited by Acting Chief Business Editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editor Vickie Walton-James. NPR's Bobby Allyn and Mary Yang contributed to this story. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.

What more do you want?

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by fdschoeneman on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:41PM (#35544671)

You're right. I either missed it or the disclaimer was added after I first read the piece.

I think I'd have preferred it be up front in the first paragraph, and that the writer used language making it clear he was talking about his own company and not NPR as an entity he was able to be objective about. That's what I'd have done.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by kenjackson on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:50PM (#35544816)

I'm not sure what you meant about the language to use -- but I do agree that I'd prefer to see disclosures upfront. I know that most NPR podcasts, for example, state the disclosure at the start of the podcast. Because honestly, I probably only finish about half of the articles I start -- I know, that's my fault.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by fdschoeneman on Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:58AM (#35553221)

I mean by language some difference in words or voice. For example, instead of describing what NPR's chief executive did, the author could have written about what his boss did.

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