Posted on 03/08/2011 6:18:56 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
(CNSNews.com) - National Public Radio President and CEO Vivian Schiller said Monday that NPR gets a “tremendous amount of criticism for being too conservative.”
At a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Schiller was asked by a moderator: “Do you believe there’s an imbalance at NPR in terms of liberals and conservatives in the newsroom--I think I know which side they’d like to have better represented there--if the answer is yes, what do you propose to do about it?”
Schiller said, “You know, every news organization--I’ve worked now with three news organizations, but even every other, people I know from every other news organization I know--gets criticized about being too liberal, about being too conservative, about being too this, that and the other. It comes with the territory.
“So, certainly we do get criticized about all manner of things,” said Schiller. “In terms of the liberal, and I will tell you that it maybe doesn’t get as much attention, but we get a tremendous amount of criticism for being too conservative as well. I wish that those folks could be in our editorial meetings and see what goes on and the care that our reporters and our journalists and other editors take to get it right.
“This is an incredibly crucial cornerstone of what we do to present, not journalism that is ‘on the one hand, on the other hand’--that’s not very interesting story-telling,” she said. “But journalism that reflects no particular bias. And it’s not just a matter of how the stories are told, it’s the kind of stories that we tell on NPR.”
She continued, “For those that do criticize us for being liberal, I ask them, when I get that personally, I ask them to point to specific stories. And when they do, we take those very seriously. Have we erred? Absolutely, we have erred in the past, but we make corrections, and we always strive to do better.”
There really are such people who seriously think NPR is too conservative. They include those I argue with who say that Obama is a moderate. Yep. You can’t make some of this stuff up.
That’s the story that newspapers, etc. always use when accused of liberal bias.
Sadly, it’s probably true that they get jumped on from lefties if they vary even slightly from the party line.
I get that from the Dallas Morning News when it couldn’t be more plain that they lean left. So far they’re in danger of falling.
But however, they lean, it doesn’t make it right for them to be funded by the government, aka US.
I agree. I wouldn't care if NPR played John Philip Sousa marches all day, the government has no business running a radio station with our tax money.
Moonbats are never satisfied.
I’m sure they do. The typical loyal NPR listeners that I’ve known would fall somewhere between Bill Ayers and Lev Trotsky on the political spectrum.
Hah! death without a funeral.
But can I just celebrate quietly in the privacy of my own home?
From who, The Shining Path?
It’s unbelievable how Republicans have went along with this nonsense for decades. They’ve funded dem campaigns and GOTV efforts through unions, they’ve funded propaganda arms of the DNC through NPR and PBS.
WTH would you allow the enemy to flourish on the taxpayer’s dime that you have control over?
What to make of this? Is this an admission that their "errors" were the slipping by of an occasional middle-of-the-road story that upset their marxist followers? Were "corrections" severe reprimands on writers and editors for letting the non-kook-fringe article by the censors? Or were they fired on the spot? What does "striving to do better" mean? Rooting out all conservative thought?
This is probably true!
Sure, ALL the criticism comes from just TWO people -- but those individuals e-mail her several times a day, EVERY day, and they are always critical. So, that counts as a "tremendous amount of criticism"...
Probably from the far leftist kooks who think Kucinich is too conservative.
If true, then the Left are cool with defunding NPR. Yes?
And Shaquille O’Neal struggles with anorexia
ML/NJ
I dunno, I could buy it.
With many, if not most, of their listeners, any variance from the far left's dogma is met with public outcry. A simple statement like "Rush Limbaugh thinks puppies are cute" is an obvious attack on liberal principles. Backsliding and dissent cannot be tolerated, for obvious reasons (the entire house of cards comes down, if one is kicked out......).
Contrast this with FR, where one topic will generate 10 opinions from only 6 people. I love it here.
My dad listens to NPR..... when I asked him, "Why?!", he replied "The better to know my enemies.".
Lots of truth in that.
After that program, they had a call in show where the first 5 callers called to complain about a right winger being on "their" station for the previous show.
The only thing NPR wants to conserve is their unaccountable taxpayer funded job.
Any lefty that thinks NPR is too conservative is a COMMUNIST!
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