There was a story on NPR last week about how it was the 65 anniversary of the first time that a sitting President had flown in an airplane. They spun the story as a positive for flight because it was NPR about FDR. But it would have been as easy to make the story a negative about a President who lacked the courage to fly and therefore held back public acceptance of flight. Lindberg flew across the Atlantic in 1924 it was 1943 before FDR flew.

The point I’m trying to make is how bias creeps into all reporting. The reporter likes FDR so she uses an anniversary to laud him for a flight that was far to late coming.