NPR omissions

NPR reported today or yesterday on the attempts by the republicans in the Michigan legislature to change laws in order to disempower the Democrats who were elected to statewide offices a few months ago. No mention that a majority of voters there voted for Democrats for the legislature, but because of gerrymandering by the republicans, a comfortable majority of republicans got elected.

As I have noted, since the mid-term elections, NPR refers to voters electing a Democratic House of Representatives and republican Senate. The one time I heard mention of the fact that a majority of voters voted for Democrats for the Senate was when a Republican they were interviewing mentioned it. This is not a problem with gerrymandering, it is due to the fact that each state gets the same number of Senators, so small republican states get the same number as Democratic states with much larger populations.

Similarly, when they report on the attempts by Wisconsin and Michigan state legislatures to remove power from the state-wide positions that voters chose Democrats for, they don't mention the fact that a majority of voters in these states voted for Democrats for the state legislatures, but a majority of republicans won office because of gerrymandering by the republicans after the last census.

It is obvious that NPR's big donors don't want people to know how successful they have been in reducing the power of voters over our government.