Monday, December 7, 2009
You cannot make this up. NPR doesn't want Mara Liasson to appear on FOX anymore, as NPR feels FOX is too biased. Alrighty then: NPR reporter pressured over Fox role
Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network's top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network's political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said.
According to a source, Liasson was summoned in early October by NPR's executive editor for news, Dick Meyer, and the network's supervising senior Washington editor, Ron Elving. The NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox's programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network.
At a follow-up meeting last month, Liasson reported that she'd seen no significant change in Fox's programming and planned to continue appearing on the network, the source said.
NPR's focus on Liasson's work as a commentator on Fox's "Special Report" and "Fox News Sunday" came at about the same time as a White House campaign launched in September to delegitimize the network by painting it as an extension of the Republican Party...
Those of you who don't get the joke must understand that the recent complaints about FOX and their right-leaning bias are rather comical, considering the left-leaning bias many of us see in the rest of the MSM, particularly NPR. Outside the commentary shows (which are avowedly right-leaning), the only sin FOX commits is having a balance of left and right voices, and treating conservative opinion as worthy of discussion and not just something to have on as a token so you can say you did it then brush it off. This is what the rest of the MSM does, and they do it so often and so heavy-handedly that having an approach that actually hears out the other side makes FOX look like an organ of the raging-right.
Fox is right leaning and more so in the last year.
Hannity is by himself can you call him "news" in any sense of the word?
Glen Beck is off the freekin rails...
The Judge has now shown he is off the rails as well... unless you also think Lincoln is a war criminal and the Civil War was a war of aggression... and you think Alex Jones, his pal who he appears regularly with and Ron Paul are "mainstream"?
To say they're balanced is somewhat of a JOKE.
If you look at the way they handle some recent issues, Climategate, creationism etc.. they got their biased guards up just like MSNBC does.
I don't watch Special Report but that's always been a good show especially when Hume was on it.
However, that show leans right, which is fine bcs the mmedia leans left.
NPR shouldn't tell Liason she can't be on a show...
However, as far as Oreilly's war against the station, I'm not down with that anymore. I like watching NPR even if their news and opinion slants left, I know what I'm getting and it is more intelligent and not showtime at the apollo I mean fox....
Can Fox stick a fork in the Dick Morris show yet? Or is that dog gonna hunt forever? I mean how dumbed down do you have to be to hear him say the same phoney nasty bullshit over and over again before you wake up to what he is?
Bernie Goldberg is getting to be a sad joke at this point... at some points he even cautiously backtracks... I think he's sick of listening to himself as well..... the 'becoming independent' thing has long worn out except to the hard right feed me more of the same mindless nonsense - a long time ago.
Also, the phoney egomaniac who constantly tries to show how "independent" he is...
His "Ha ha he he" act with Miller as his hard foil and OReilly playing the not so tough centrist is NAUSEATING at this point....
Its long past funny or entertaining....
But at least Oreilly tries to be fair most of the time.
I watch Morning Joe in the morning now... it's actually has intelligent conversation and doesn't try to continually ram down platitudes and talking points down your throat like Fox and Friends... except the latter always has hot blonds in skirts showing off their legs...
Hannity is by himself can you call him "news" in any sense of the word?
What is news in your sense of the word?
The definition is usually: Information about recent events or happenings
and information is usually defined as
Knowledge derived from study, experience, instruction or received; A collection of facts or data (not like that disseminated by the Climategate gang in the CRUtape Letters)
As for Hannity I've no idea what he is presenting but can't say that anything I've seen from this side of the world emanating from the media is news, unless of course you mean the distorted, misleading and fact lacking presentations, minus context, that one swallows in 30 second sound bites.
unless you also think Lincoln is a war criminal and the Civil War was a war of aggression...
Some of the progressives have to all intents and purposes labeled Churchill a war criminal so I don't think it way out for them to have a go at those who had the temerity to get your country up on its feet.
Maybe in another decade or so national radio will have got round to trashing the framers.
It appears that the constitution is already being savaged.
Just to make a point take a look at this piece by Mark Steyn
Global Yawning
It is mad to consider as news the propaganda that the people are being force fed.
Special Report was fantastic with Brit Hume.
Its not that NPR shouldnt tell Mara Liason that she cant be on or should resign from her Fox News commitments....its that these folks actually had the temerity to do so. We are way past what they should or should not do, they did it. Fox News hasnt told a damn sole that they shouldnt have affiliations with NPR or any other news organization.
Bill OReilly is a Populist Blue Dog Democrat....nothing wrong with that.
"unless you also think Lincoln is a war criminal and the Civil War was a war of aggression"
By today's standard's Lincoln was both. He was the worst president in the history of the United States and probably will hold that title forever. Next you will be telling me that Serbia's war to preserve the Union was honorable and no war crimes were committed...and that it wasnt a war of aggression.
Good Lord!