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NPR CEO: ‘We Get a Tremendous Amount of Criticism for Being Too Conservative'
CNS News ^ | March 08, 2011 | Nicholas Ballasy

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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2deluded4words; defund; defunditanyway; jamesokeefe; lyingsack; npr; okeefe
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To: Mr. Mojo
My beeber is stuned. I call:


41 posted on 03/08/2011 7:05:25 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: Altura Ct.

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.


42 posted on 03/08/2011 7:06:14 AM PST by Aroostook25
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To: Mr. Mojo

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.


43 posted on 03/08/2011 7:07:14 AM PST by altura
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To: namvolunteer
I don’t care whether NPR or this witch is liberal or conservative. I just don’t want to be taxed.

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.

44 posted on 03/08/2011 7:07:26 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer" -- Henry Clay)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Moonbats are never satisfied.


45 posted on 03/08/2011 7:07:26 AM PST by Jim Noble (I'd crawl over broken glass for her. Alea iacta est.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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.


46 posted on 03/08/2011 7:09:25 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Huebolt

Hah! death without a funeral.

But can I just celebrate quietly in the privacy of my own home?


47 posted on 03/08/2011 7:10:20 AM PST by altura
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To: Mr. Mojo

From who, The Shining Path?


48 posted on 03/08/2011 7:12:45 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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?


49 posted on 03/08/2011 7:13:36 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Mr. Mojo
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.”

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?

50 posted on 03/08/2011 7:14:31 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mr. Mojo
National Public Radio President and CEO Vivian Schiller said Monday that NPR gets a “tremendous amount of criticism for being too conservative.”

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"...

51 posted on 03/08/2011 7:19:32 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: Mr. Mojo
we get a tremendous amount of criticism for being too conservative as well

Probably from the far leftist kooks who think Kucinich is too conservative.

52 posted on 03/08/2011 7:24:59 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Mr. Mojo

If true, then the Left are cool with defunding NPR. Yes?


53 posted on 03/08/2011 7:25:43 AM PST by Avery Iota Kracker (He hate me.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

And Shaquille O’Neal struggles with anorexia


54 posted on 03/08/2011 7:30:59 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
I thought we weren't supposed to post stories from The Onion here.

ML/NJ

55 posted on 03/08/2011 7:34:05 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: yldstrk
Complete hooey.

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.

56 posted on 03/08/2011 7:41:23 AM PST by wbill
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To: Mr. Mojo
I was listening to Minnesota Public Radio last year and surprisingly they had a conservative commentator on to discuss a particular issue.

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.

57 posted on 03/08/2011 7:53:23 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The only thing NPR wants to conserve is their unaccountable taxpayer funded job.


58 posted on 03/08/2011 8:05:54 AM PST by glyptol
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To: dennisw

Any lefty that thinks NPR is too conservative is a COMMUNIST!


59 posted on 03/08/2011 8:11:42 AM PST by 2001convSVT (That Beck guy was right about gold, too.)
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To: eCSMaster
And 19 out of 20 NPR staff voted for Obama, real conservative, yea right.
60 posted on 03/08/2011 8:15:19 AM PST by 2001convSVT (That Beck guy was right about gold, too.)
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