As I said in the article, the two radio reports gave a different perspective on 6%, one fairly neutral and the other very negative. Is 6 percent good? I have nothing to compare to in these short reports, but you are right that we have to teach critical thinking in our schools, but we also have to be critical about how we add our own bias in our blogs. If our blogs are biased, then the reader needs to know right up front, across every post. If they are not, and a journalistic approach is taken, then the blogger needs to relate the critical thinking to explain the difference between a fact and opinion. Good point.

I wouldn’t mind NPR providing an interpretation, so long as they explain it, and so long as it’s objective, or if there is dispute, then several interpretations and the reasons behind them.

I can think of many cases where NPR does have a clear bias.

I believe in truth literally. Opinion is OK, so long as it labeled as such.
We should be teaching critical thinking in our schools: how to tell opinion from fact.