Journalists' Opinions: The Eunuch in the Harem? (NPR VS. FOX NEWS)

NPR ^ | July 30, 2003 | Jeffrey A. Dvorkin

[fight_truth_decay]

"In my opinion, that journalistic tone on FOX can often resemble a food fight rather than a reasoned discussion. The programs can be very entertaining, but no one would confuse them with the Oxford Union debates."-Jeffrey A. Dvorkin

OUCH!

[Paul Atreides]

Can NPR journalists express their personal opinions when they speak or write for other media?

Why not? They do it on NPR.

[Drango]

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[Abcdefg]

"they are expected to hold to the same high standards"

What high standards??? This is NPR we're talking about!

[Shermy]

The division between "punditry" and "opinion" and "analysis" is insipid. And what the lady said a million Democrats said the same.

NPR is hopeless.

[tsmith130]

The New York Times happens to have a very succinct code of conduct for its journalists that could just as easily apply in this case: .... Staff members should avoid strident, theatrical forums that emphasize punditry and reckless opinion-mongering. Instead we should offer thoughtful and retrospective analysis.....

Apparently, no one told Chris Hodges this before he made his speech at Rockford College.

[Old Sarge]

On September 14th, 2001, I was riding home and stumbled past NPR on the dial.

The blonde (you could tell that on the air) was going on about how William the Impeached was at 32nd St, blocks north of Ground Zero, at the same time that GWB was with the men at The Pile.

She was positively having an on-air orgasm on how caring "the President" was. I screamed at the radio for three miles, at the biased flackness of the newsblonde's comments.

NPR leans so far to the Left, one must lay them on their right sides to stand them up straight.

[niteowl77]

I used to listen to NPR because it was not bad enough to make me take evasive action. Around '95, it became irritating enough to make me turn the radio off when the music programming was over. Eventually, I stopped listening to ANY "public" radio, because NPR would somehow leak through the the cracks.

Near the end, my one bright moment would be listening to the pompous Daniel Schorr make an unintentional broad parody of himself, but the price for admission simply became too high. I just got tired of being mentally and morally thugged every day.

[RobbyS]

These guys have deluded themsleves into believing that liberal opinion is objective/

[Woahhs]

Bruce Drake as vice president of news is responsible for NPR's journalistic standards. My guidelines are simple: an NPR News reporter should not say something on a television talk show, the Internet or a public speech that they could not say on-air for NPR in their own reporting.

Hmmm. So NPR managment expects on-air talent to give up their first amendment rights?

That wasn't "sexual harrassment" Chloey. It was persistant romantic overture. We did an investigation, so you can't sue.

[vbmoneyspender]

I used to listen to NPR because it was not bad enough to make me take evasive action.

I like that. Nice phraseology.

[NewRomeTacitus]

These people are insidious. My best friend, usually apolitical, went off on a rant about how Israel is exterminating palestinians in a fever pitch like the Nazis wrought on them. I asked where he got that information and he replied “National Public Radio”.
I solved his perception problem with the Washington Times & Free Republic.
Public Radio should stick to Classical music. If they persist stabbing the government in the back they should have their funding reallocated. Simple as that.

[Paulus Invictus]

NPR's high leftist standards are what they want to convey and they do so every day. Why is my tax money supporting these leftists?

[Let's Roll]

NPR wouldn't want to be tagged as the "Thought Police" would they? Of course not, so they put lipstick on their pig and call it ethics guidelines.

snark/guffaw

[Fifth Business]

Some listeners just don't understand why NPR would allow its reporters to lend their own credibility and that of NPR to FOX programs. FOX hosts often imply that NPR reporters are the embodiment of liberal journalism by placing them against openly conservative personalities. This may confirm in the minds of some viewers that NPR must be as ideologically committed in its own way as FOX is to the conservative cause.

Precisely.

[KellyAdmirer]

NPR and The New York Times both have strong reasons for maintaining the high journalistic standards of their organizations.

But in NPR's case, are those standards being enforced?

I have to say, these two liberal birds of a feather certainly do belong together. As for "high journalistic standards," I have to comfort the author that, yes, NPR certainly maintains the same sort of journalistic integrity - amount of political bias, frequency of subtle political attacks, evenhandedness of editorial comment - as that august institution of journalistic depravity, the NY Times.

[RJayneJ]

"they are expected to hold to the same high standards"

That's Liberalese for hold the liberal line. The liberal position equals good, smile. The conservative position is bad, frown.

[reed_inthe_wind]

Does the government still fund NPR?

[JoJo Gunn]

Lipstick on their pig?!

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