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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Yeeeeahhh. After years of NPR consumption, I'm familiar with this.
It's "polite bias": we, at NPR, are the figureheads of all things properly news, and we are pretending to not have any bias at all.
So we can't do the radio equivalent of a Jon Stewart, and bug our eyes out at this new information or do a faux spit-take. We can't do what we'd do in the real world, which is to say "5 billion, are you shitting me?"
But we can say wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Our listeners understand that it's
code for are you shitting me.