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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
NPR Ombudsman
Catholics, Contraception and the Consequences of Poor Poll Reporting
March 6, 2012 An NPR report failed to cite Planned Parenthood as the sponsor of a poll on the birth control insurance mandate and interpreted the results questionably. A second report repeated an error in a Guttmacher press release on birth control use by Catholic women and never cited Guttmacher. Critics charged liberal bias. What happened? What's the impact?