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JimDandy

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1. NPR was doing this in the presidential race.
Sat Nov 17, 2012, 02:59 PM
Nov 2012

They seemed to have the appearance of fairness until you realized something was off. They'd play strong sound bites of Romney, (often played first) and then a reporter would paraphrase (no actual sound bite) a weak point of Obama. And they started taking out the audience applause going on behind the candidates remarks, applause which would often be loud and extended on the clip of an Obama rally, but muted, short or non existent on a clip of a Romney appearance. Don't have a count for how often they did this, but often enough that it was noticeable to me.

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