NPR: Obama Shares Miss California's Same-sex Marriage Views
May 18th, 2009 11:21 AM
At almost the same time NPR's Peter Sagal and White House advisor David Axelrod were disgracefully mocking Carrie Prejean in front of a cheering crowd at George Washington University, NPR's Scott Simon was pointing out to his listeners how Barack Obama shares Miss California's views on same-sex marriage. Talk about your inconvenient truths.Potentially even more shocking, Simon exposed how absurd…
NPR Presses Democrat Into Saying Democracy In Cuba Would Cause Lack of
April 10th, 2009 4:44 PM
For a network that calmly bowed to the "advantages" of totalitarianism in Cuba's natural-disaster preparations, it was a bit shocking to hear National Public Radio anchor Melissa Block pressing a leftist congressman on Tuesday's All Things Considered about Cuban repression. Employing what should be the standard practice of presenting the opponent's position, in this case on normalizing relations…
Bozell Column: National Public Unfairness
March 24th, 2009 7:02 PM
There’s a huge hole in all of the public discussion about the reimposition of a "Fairness Doctrine" or a return to "localism" on the talk-radio format: What about National Public Radio? Liberals would like to "crush Rush" and his conservative compatriots by demanding each station balance its lineup ideologically. But since when has NPR ever felt any pressure to be balanced, even when a majority…
'Masterful' Obama Performance with Leno 'Calmed Down' Totenberg
March 23rd, 2009 9:28 AM
Since “I've really been getting pretty upset in the last week, just like every other American,” NPR's Nina Totenberg decided to watch President Obama on the Tonight Show “and he calmed me down. And he was presidential. I thought it was just a masterful performance.” The eager-to-be-impressed Totenberg made her comment on Inside Washington, a weekly show produced and aired over the weekend by…
Buffalo Muslim Wife's Beheading Spiked, But False Sex-Abuse Charges Ag
February 19th, 2009 4:41 PM
Does the media show religious discrimination in their news judgment? The founder of a TV network devoted to improve the image of Muslims being charged in the beheading of his wife is not a story the major media have leaped on. On Friday, news broke that Muzzammil Hassan, founder and CEO of Bridges TV, was charged with murdering his wife Aasiya after she filed for divorce. After some Nexis…
Fox-Phobic NPR Veep Ellen Weiss Has Husband On Obama Faith Council
February 17th, 2009 9:51 AM
News broke Thursday that Ellen Weiss, senior vice president for news at National Public Radio, insisted that Juan Williams must tell Fox News that his NPR affiliation should not be mentioned or pictured on The O’Reilly Factor. (Weiss also banished a Williams interview with President Bush from the airwaves of NPR in 2007, so it just aired on Fox News.) But what about Ellen Weiss’s potential…
