Comments for Joe Olivo Plays a Small Business Owner on NPR at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.cepr.net Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:31:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/joe-olivo-plays-a-small-business-owner-on-npr#comment-17533 Joe's not a real business owner, but he does play one on TV for the benefit of the millionaires and big corporation who really pay him. - FoonTheElder Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:26:31 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/joe-olivo-plays-a-small-business-owner-on-npr#comment-17464 NPR's "On the Media" show (Saturdays at 3:00 PM here in New Orleans) ran a ten-minute segment on "Joe the Printer" that addressed the criticisms raised by this post and others. Well done, Dean! http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jul/13/introducing-joe-olivo/ - Frank Burke Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:47:51 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/joe-olivo-plays-a-small-business-owner-on-npr#comment-17376 want to know how many minimum wage workers this guy employs. - PeonInChief Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:35:54 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/joe-olivo-plays-a-small-business-owner-on-npr#comment-17366 I remember listening to this NPR piece and thought for sure they had identified Joe as working for the NFIB. I checked it out and nope, that was the next person they utilized for its objectivity/counterpoint credentials: "Bill Dunkelberg, chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a group that lobbies against increasing the minimum wage." Joe was indeed presented as a real American small business owner. transcript here: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/08/156458470/raising-minimum-wage-a-help-or-harm Well done to you and Balloon Juice for catching it. - Frank Burke Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:34:09 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/joe-olivo-plays-a-small-business-owner-on-npr#comment-17355 My guess is that these interviews are recorded and then edited with the "interviewer" recording new questions that fit the statements already made by the "interviewee". This makes the piece flow better over the air and also makes the interviewer look smarter and more well informed. It does, however, let the interviewee control the interview stating only info and positions he/she wants stated. What the media needs is some retired trial lawyers who know how to take an adversarial deposition and dig out the real facts. - Ethan Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:18:37 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/joe-olivo-plays-a-small-business-owner-on-npr#comment-17346 I didn't listen to it, fortunately, but this type of lazy journalism has been going on for years at NPR. Many of the questions/answers the reporters are asked by the anchor sound very well rehearsed, staged actually. As mentioned elsewhere, their Dem said/Rep said/Rep said format was already getting old in the Clinton years. It's become the CNN of radio. - Bill Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:45:02 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/joe-olivo-plays-a-small-business-owner-on-npr#comment-17343 It is stuff like this, appearing with ever increasing frequency, that makes me despair. NPR, Fox, CNN et. al. all presenting "information" in a way that ordinary people will accept as true. Except it's managed info. I spend a fair amount of money on paper journalism (NYT, local paper, Time, Economist and others). More and more I think I'm wasting my money and time. - Jack Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:18:06 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/joe-olivo-plays-a-small-business-owner-on-npr#comment-17342 Ah, but if Olivo is presented as representing a particular organized point of view, the "rule" of journalism require that the other side be allowed to rebut his view. If he's just a guy, relating to NPR how things stand, there's no need to go to that extra work. - kharris Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:35:48 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/joe-olivo-plays-a-small-business-owner-on-npr#comment-17341 Not only that, NPR just had Kathleen Hall Jamieson on, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center discussing why politicians lie. With no hint of unbelievable bias - exactly what the Center claims to oversee and flush out - Jamieson proceeded to weave in the austerian point that anyone who didn't clarify that both government spending had to decline and taxes had to increase in balanced budget fashion was lying. With such brilliant minds as Jamieson the watchdog explaining the difference between economic lies and truths in the middle of a deep recession, who needs Olivo to set the record straight? - Last Mover Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:33:04 +0100