{"id":596882,"date":"2021-07-19T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596882"},"modified":"2021-07-19T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:06:06","slug":"npr-accuses-daily-wire-of-tricking-readers-because-were-conservative-thats-a-lie-but-npr-is-lying-to-its-own-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-accuses-daily-wire-of-tricking-readers-because-were-conservative-thats-a-lie-but-npr-is-lying-to-its-own-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Accuses Daily Wire Of Tricking Readers Because We\u2019re Conservative. That\u2019s A Lie. But NPR Is Lying To Its Own Readers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnpr-accuses-daily-wire-of-tricking-readers-because-were-conservative-thats-a-lie-but-npr-is-lying-to-its-own-readers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596882&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NPR-e1603383820747.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In a hit-piece published Monday, publicly-funded NPR accused The Daily Wire of tricking Americans who engage with our news stories, asserting that readers or those who engage with our content might not know we\u2019re conservative, even though, as NPR admits in the piece, Daily Wire openly discloses bias on its \u201cAbout\u201d page.<\/p>\n<p>The claim by NPR is, of course, intentionally misleading, not to mention glaringly ironic.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does The Daily Wire disclose that we have a general point-of-view on our website, but we also add a disclosure statement on every single news piece published at the site emphasizing that we have a conservative bias. Our podcasts hosts, too, are all openly conservative. Here\u2019s what our disclosure on every article looks like (also see it at the end of this piece):<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><i>member<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>NPR, which is, in part, funded indirectly by our tax dollars, is clearly a left-leaning entity. Does NPR disclose its bias? Of course not \u2014 not anywhere. Nor has the site complained about left-leaning sites and outlets which claim to be objective refusing to disclose their bias to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the language from the NPR hit-piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>Publicly the site does not purport to be a traditional news source. On its \u2018About\u2019 page, the site declares, \u201cThe Daily Wire does not claim to be without bias,\u201d and goes on to say, \u201cWe\u2019re opinionated, we\u2019re noisy, and we\u2019re having a good time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s not clear that the millions of people engaging with the site\u2019s news stories every month recognize that. The Daily Wire\u2019s content looks no different in Facebook\u2019s newsfeed than an article from a local newspaper, making it potentially difficult to distinguish between more and less reliable or biased information sources.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Notably, NPR claims we are not a \u201ctraditional news source,\u201d suggesting this is because we are biased, unlike legacy media, which would include outlets like The New York Times, the Washington Post, and NPR.&nbsp;Except, these media sites have an overtly left-wing slant. Therefore, it seems, a news site that reports from a conservative rather than liberal point-of-view is not \u201ctraditional.\u201d&nbsp;The language, obviously strategic, again works to undermine the credibility of any news outlets that do not stay in line with the liberal narrative.<\/p>\n<p>The glaringly biased hit-piece has already promoted backlash online \u2014 from honest reporters on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Lachlan Markay of Axios, formerly of The Daily Beast, noted that NPR unfairly attempts to inextricably tie The Daily Wire with \u201cmisinformation\u201d with a \u201ctotally untenable and frankly absurd\u201d \u201cstandard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean you\u2019re literally attacking the journalism business model that predominated *at the time the First Amendment was written*,\u201d Markey emphasized.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3117647058824\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I mean you&#8217;re literally attacking the journalism business model that predominated *at the time the First Amendment was written*<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lachlan\/status\/1417111619642011650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Markay was referring to the following excerpt from the NPR piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14.303482587065\">\n<p><em>The articles The Daily Wire publishes don\u2019t normally include falsehoods (with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/is-mohammed-popular-name-netherlands\/\">some exceptions<\/a>), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/standards-policies\">the site said<\/a> it is committed to \u201ctruthful, accurate and ethical reporting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But as Settle explains, by only covering specific stories that bolster the conservative agenda (such as negative stories about socialist countries and polarizing stories about race and sexuality issues) and only including certain facts, readers still come away from The Daily Wire\u2019s content with the impression that Republican politicians can do little wrong and cancel culture is among the nation\u2019s greatest threats.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><i>member<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a hit-piece published Monday, publicly-funded NPR accused The Daily Wire of tricking Americans who engage with our news stories, asserting that readers or those who engage with our content &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}