Posted on 04/10/2011 1:20:04 PM PDT by Salman
One of two NPR stations in the Los Angeles area, KPCC-FM, suspended its regularly-scheduled Planned Parenthood spots on Friday, in response to Republican demands that Congress eliminate federal funding for the family planning group.
Program Director Craig Curtis explained in a Friday memo to staff members, “given that the budget debate in congress is focusing today on abortion in general and Planned Parenthood by extension,” running the spots “might raise questions in the mind of the “reasonable listener” regarding our editorial and sales practices.”
A “reasonable listener” might now have questions about the journalistic integrity of the station.
The memo was published in LAObserved.com, a media-watch website edited by Kevin Roderick.
“There is nothing wrong with the spots per se,” Curtis said in his memo. It’s just that the station doesn’t want to make Republicans unhappy.
Planned Parenthood has “a business relationship” with the NPR station, the memo said – which means the organization has a contract under which it pays the station as an underwriter to run the spots.
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Program Director Craig Curtis explained in a Friday memo to staff members “given that the budget debate in congress is focusing today on abortion in general and Planned Parenthood by extension,” running the spots “might raise questions in the mind of the “reasonable listener” regarding our editorial and sales practices.”
In other words, the government really almost dud shut down, and might yet still, all because if planned parenthood.
Love it when the enemy testifies against himself.
They may not have taken the whole enchilada yet, but they've certainly got the enemy on the defense.
Smart guy. I’m sure he was a little concerned about his own funding as well.
The other question is if he was instructed to do so by the White House. Hope someone asks.
dud > did; if > of
This reasonable listener has had doubts about NPR's journalistic integrity for a long, loooonnng time.
And certainly not because they're Right-biased.
NPR is trying to cover their butts...
What’s next, offering Glenn Beck a job?
Indeed, and we haven’t started on the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Expect the usual Dem shnanigans and stories about grandma eating dog food, little urchins not getting any food, etc.
Anyway, it's fishy. Even if it isn't straight-up BS, he's admitted to a willingness to pander for support.
I’m in LA and never even heard of those stations.
” Even if it isn’t straight-up BS, he’s admitted to a willingness to pander for support.”
Like any good whore.
Just what you’d expect from the guardians of the First Amendment.
Silly NPR, “Reasonable listeners” don’t listen to NPR to begin with.
And more alarmingly, it might answer those questions.
The left funds itself through a network of cross funding from one group to another, a network so complex even they don't really know from where all their money is coming from, except generally from taxpayers and other coerced or unaware parties. That is why any victory against them, such as Wisconson, has collateral damage all across the left. We have to keep up the pressure, at all times.
NPR is a bunch of liberals.
They suspended the ads to throw their liberal friends into foaming tizzies.
It’s as simple as that.
Congress also wanted to defund NPR - but the station kept running didn’t it?
Yeah, you could refer to Boehner's bill as la enchiladita
. Paul Ryan has the recipe for the whole enchilada, I hear. Can't wait.
KPCC is 89.3 FM.
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