Did NPR Religious Reporter Cook Up A Slanted Story?

Atrios and his readers found that an odd story on NPR Friday, which basicly boiled down to "good Catholics are moral people who oppose abortion and Kerry doesn't appeal to them," has some severe lapses in veracity and journalistic judgement.

The religion reporter is a graduate of the World Journalism Institute, who's graduates have a God given mission to do all they can to get His Word out in the secular world.

She interviewed four people, "three outside a Catholic Church on Wednesday." She only gave one an occupation, the token liberal union official. His given occupation enables listeners to attribute his opinions to liberal bias. The others only had names given. Atrios and his readers found out that all of the remaining three are extreme right wing Catholic Republican professional communicators. One has even written a book on the supposed liberal conspiracy to destroy Christianity. They were not the man-on-the-street interviews implied by her story and the story can only be seen as a deliberate partisan campaign to influence opinion against Kerry.