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NPR Check: Robbins' Fetid Baloney Sandwich (3/10/08) by Mytwords
Taking Morning Edition correspondent Ted Robbins to task for his story making light of "an outdoor prison camp where the 2,000 inmates 'live outside, sleeping on cots in hundreds of old canvas tents in the broiling summer heat and the chilly desert winter.'"And when male inmates are forced to wear "a black-and-white striped uniform usually worn over pink underwear," that's just "the sheriff's fashion creation" that inmates "model" for the NPR reporter. Even when Robbins tells us that "for food the sheriff serves the inmates green, as in fetid, baloney sandwiches," the tone is humorously matter of fact.
Mytwords finds it "telling that on a morning when anti-immigrant/nativist racism is making the news, NPR chooses to do a folksy send up of this anti-immigrant, racist, prisoner-abusing sheriff."
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