NPR Reports On U.S. Liberal Bias -- Tilted to Theorist Who Laments Rep

Tim Graham
January 8th, 2011 7:19 AM
On the morning before NPR announced its internal review of its leftist purge of Juan Williams for appearing on The O'Reilly Factor, media reporter David Folkenflik was "reporting" that the problem with the American news media is its painful lack of bias. Come again? "Mainstream news reporters don't tell you what they think enough of the time." That came from the star of the Folkenflik story,…
 

NPR Announces Internal Review of Juan Williams Firing, Forces Out VP W

Tim Graham
January 6th, 2011 3:50 PM
On Thursday, the NPR Board of Directors announced it has concluded an internal review of the firing of senior analyst Juan Williams for comments on the Fox News Channel. In what a spokesman called “two distinct pieces of news,” the internal review came with the resignation of Ellen Weiss, NPR’s senior vice president for news, the one who fired Williams over the phone. Weiss, whose husband Rabbi…
 

NPR Notes Backlash When Fox News Is Called 'Voracious' and MSNBC Only

Tim Graham
April 28th, 2010 7:40 AM
One laudable practice at National Public Radio is reading listener reactions on the air. On Monday night's All Things Considered newscast, they noted several listeners objected to NPR media reporter David Folkenflik stating Fox offered "voracious conservatism" while MSNBC merely offered "leftward tilt." Anchor Michelle Norris relayed: The Pew Research Center last year found that public trust in…