{"id":1228445,"date":"2023-09-26T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9035498"},"modified":"2023-09-26T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:01:59","slug":"npr-report-on-depleted-uranium-shells-for-ukraine-was-a-one-source-dud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/26\/npr-report-on-depleted-uranium-shells-for-ukraine-was-a-one-source-dud\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Report on Depleted Uranium Shells for Ukraine Was a One-Source Dud\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In its fundraising promotions, NPR<\/b> touts shows like Morning Edition<\/b> as providing listeners a \u201cdeeper look\u201d at complicated stories.<\/p>\n
Sometimes that is the case, but not this month, in its coverage of an announced decision by the Biden administration to further escalate the violence in Ukraine by supplying that country\u2019s military with controversial depleted uranium (DU) anti-tank shells. Morning Edition<\/b> (9\/8\/23<\/a>) glossed over the reason many nations consider their use an atrocity. In fact, many commercial news organizations did a much better job in reporting in depth on this story.<\/p>\n‘Not nuclear or radioactive’<\/b><\/h3>\n