NPR wouldn't let Michelle Norris do ANY political reporting 'cause husband

[AP]

worked for Kerry. (This was during the campaign.)

OK. But because she was the HOST of ATC, it meant that ATC became very watered down. During the primaries, the tone set from the top was that politics weren't important.

And another problem: how can they muzzle Michelle Norris because of a fear of bias, but allow people like Cokie, Juan and Mara have the floor day in and day out despite their very obvious personal bias against Democrats?

In theory, Norris could be biased against Bush because here husband had a direct professional and financial interest in Kerry succeeding. But Juan and Mara who draw paychecks from Fox also have a direct financial interest in Bush succeeding. And Cokie, who makes money from talking to large corporations on the weekends also has a financial intertest in the party representing those interests succeeding.

It's funny how they only muzzle the voices from the left.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?columnId=2781901

[Peter1x9]

1. They are fascists, what do you expect?

Anyone even potentially opposed to the government won't be allowed to do any reporting.

[Out the Parasites]

2. I can't help but wonder...

do the voices from the left get muzzled? or rather do we do what is correct and muzzle ourselves when something of this level of controversy comes up.

I think that we are mostly fair, regardless if it is to our own detriment, because we error on the side of good judgment not that we are being muzzled.

Sometimes I think we should fight the dirty fight. I know we wont and that's what keeps my head up.

[AP]

4. Norris was told by bosses she could not report on politics. She's

complaining now.

I don't know how you want to characterize this. She didn't fight back then. But then again, it's not like it was her idea not to do political interviews.

And it's not like the bosses at NPR decided that obvious bias against Democrats by the rest of the crew at NPR was worth addressing.

So, sure liberals are a little spineless (where are our heroes?). But it's not like we're inventing ways to hurt ourselves.

[Stephanie]

3. I have permanently tuned all the radios to AAR

I am finished with NPR. They are complicit.

[Patiod]

6. You're lucky you can

We're in the 5th largest market in America, one that went something like 5:1 Dem/Rep, and we only get 6 hours of AAR - noon to 6pm.

[Helga Scow Stern]

5. That makes sense, given yesterday's NPR propaganda job on....

the truth about our democracy being stolen.
They are the most insidious Rove vehicle, because reasonably well-informed liberals listen to them and think they tell the truth. Notice how Rove picked them and the WP to smear the truth. Now all the nice little libs will let it go. And accept the defeat.

NOT! Because the truth will win in this case. That was really stupid of them to think they could steal the vote this time when so many people were passionate about the vote. Get out the vote and then steal it? What were they thinking?

[AP]

7. The purpose of NPR is to dissipate radicalism among a more or less

liberally inclined middle class.

They had a story about how Texans had bad credit ratings about two weeks ago (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4120021). NPR's solution? Buy a copy of your credit score from Experian.

Compare that to a story in the Akron Beacon Journal (http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/10114872.htm?1c) about the same issue. Notice that the ABJ's article actually includes concrete policy proposals to address the problem.

Contrast the two. NPR's idea to solve the problem is spend more money on the credit card companies. The ABJs is to figure out ways to allow the working and middle class to keep more of the money they earn.

One "solution" is just more consumption. The other solution is political. NPR hates the political solution.

[Donna Zen]

8. Witness

I wrote to complain to NPR and received an e-mail advising me to quit listening to them and to quit donating.

I am a witness.

The regime has placed neoconservatives on the NPR board. Look for BigBird to soon be leading the children in prayer.

[AP]

9. I've noticed that writing to NPR and cc'ing my local affiliates is very...

...effective at making NPR take note of my complaints. And I frequently get replies from the cc'd local affiliates saying that they appreciate my concerns and are trying to figure out ways to devolve more editorial control over the news to the local stations.

NPR ultimately makes money from local affiliates paying licensing fees for ATC and ME. When local listeners start saying they're listening less often, NPR will get worried.

[Willy Lee]

10. I just wrote to them also.

Listening last night to their "balanced" reporting on asscroft's resignation I winced when both their conservative and liberal guests sang his praises. WTF??? Them man is evil incarnate. So yeah, I wrote them and said after 10 years I was through, they'll be getting no more of my money. I now support our LOCAL community radio station (which happen's to air Democracy Now! every night).

Buh-bye NPR