Please, as a long time friend who has pulled away from you because of your "problem" I'm asking you to look at what you've done to yourself. This obsession of yours is unhealthy. You don't need to distort headlines or titillate me with innuendo to get me to listen. In fact, it makes you seem less attractive. I know it has made me look at others for fulfillment. Is that what you want? Do you want to drive a wedge between us?
Listen to what you're saying. This morning is a good example. You decided to report on the presidential debate tonight. No, wait, you called it the "critical debate". Well, that's a half-truth, the debate is only critical for one candidate, the woefully inept and rapidly sinking in the polls challenger Willard Romney. It's only "critical" because you're, once again, trying to get me to listen by teasing me. It's a presidential debate. Maybe you can call it important. But drop the hyperbole, especially when it's slanted so badly.
But wait, you weren't done. You next reported (if I can use that term) about the state of the electoral polling. Even your own polls shows President Obama with a commanding lead, outside the margin of error. Here is what you say in print
The latest poll by NPR and its bipartisan polling team shows President Obama with a 7-point lead among likely voters nationally and a nearly identical lead of 6 points in the dozen battleground states where both campaigns are spending most of their time and money.
But I'd never know that by listening to you. No, listening to you I hear that it's a "narrow one digit race". Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Really? Sorry, but that's the early signs of a landslide, not a "narrow" race.
So NPR, are you going to stick to reporting facts and give up the chasing the FOX or do I have to look for a new station to program into my #1 button on the FM band?