Posted on 10/21/2010 11:37:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Now that Fox News contributor Juan Williams has been dropped from National Public Radio, the liberal website Media Matters for America is now targeting Mara Liasson, the last remaining NPR correspondent who works with Fox News.
“NPR’s Mara Liasson and her long-running association with Fox News has often raised questions. This might be the proper time for NPR to finally address that thorny issue,” wrote Media Matters columnist Eric Boehlert Thursday in a post entitled “What about Mara Liasson?” “[I]f you look at NPR’s code of ethics, there’s simply no way Liasson should be making appearances on Fox.”
Boehlert cited an official NPR document that says employees may not make media appearances that are “harmful to the reputation of NPR or the NPR participant” or “where the employee’s appearance may appear to endorse the agenda of a group or organization.”
Boehlert said that since Fox News pushes a “political agenda,” Liasson’s association violates the organization’s code of ethics.
In 2009, it was reported that NPR pressured Liasson to cut her ties with Fox News, a network she has contributed to since 1997. Liasson did not immediately return a request for comment.
Media Matters and NPR both announced this week they were receiving million-dollar grants from left-wing billionaire George Soros.
Looks like a purge is beginning.
Is NPR purging its folks who appear on Fox News as an unspoken requirement for getting a million $$ from Soros? the whole world want to know.
Mara needs to go. Let her go back to coughing on NPR permanently.
Yahoo had an article about it at 9:12 EST this morning. As of right now, there are over 20 THOUSAND comments on that article's comment thread, predominantly negative towards NPR's actions.
Speaking of the proper time, I think it’s proper time to defund NPR.
Mara Liasson and Juan Williams:
How does it feel to go under the bus in the name of ideological purity?
(Technically, Mara is not under the bus yet, but it’s probably any time to be...)
PING!
How much am I supposed to care about what happens to these liberals?
First they came for the liberal...
the First Amendment is not there to protect agreement or to be part of a popularity contest.
It was included in the Constitution for the opposite reason: to protect the UNPOPULAR opinion from the tyranny of the majority. ( or in this case, Islam and the progressives)
When did FR become a square planet?
Its all over facebook as well. And I have yet to see a single comment from either side defending NPR. And I run in a lot of political forums that have both Left and Right points of view.
If they continue with Fox, do Mara Liasson and Juan Williams fall under the category of jobs created or jobs saved?
My favorite all time episode of Star Trek.
Mirror Mirror.
Spock as a Pirate with a beard.
I actually got haircuts from Spock’s daddy.
And THEY lecture US about the influence of “shadowy foreign money.”
/bingo
Keillor? He's a card-carrying MOONBAT!
You sure about that?
Heck, they should give him a show with Bernie Goldberg, "Confessions of Lame-Stream Media Escapees". Maybe they could have Dick Morris as a regular contributor.
Oh, yeah, BIG TIME! Check out some of his Salon rants:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/garrison_keillor/
Sigh. Pity, he's so talented. Had a hot Swedish wife too, I think. Well, a Swedish one, anyway. Or Norwegian. Assumed she was hot, as most Swedish women are.
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