{"id":3916,"date":"2010-10-25T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2010-10-25T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:34:26","slug":"the-npr-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3916","title":{"rendered":"The NPR Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nina Totenberg is an NPR news correspondent<\/em>.  She’s supposed to report the news straight and without bias.  This has not kept her from offering opinions over the years anyway.  She went so far as to wish AIDS on Jesse Helms or his grandchildren.  <\/p>\n

So Charles Krauthammer wanted to know the difference between what she’s been doing for at least the past 15 years, and what Juan Williams did that got him fired.  Juan is, or was, an NPR news analyst<\/em>, which Krauthammer argues might have less<\/em> of an appearance-of-objectivity standard than a correspondent.  So he asks, what’s the line that Juan crossed?<\/p>\n

No one can give him a straight answer, not even Totenburg herself.<\/a><\/p>\n

NPR’s long history of liberal bias answers the question itself.  You don’t get a second look if you wish death to a Republican or his grandchildren.  But express your honest fears, even acknowledging that they are irrational, and you’re out the door.  <\/p>\n

There should no longer be any question whatsoever of the overwhelming bias of the NPR news organization.  Intellectual honesty demands an accounting of the Juan Williams firing, after which that is the inescapable conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nina Totenberg is an NPR news correspondent.  She’s supposed to report the news straight and without bias.  This has not kept her from offering opinions over the years anyway.  She went so far as to wish AIDS on Jesse Helms or his grandchildren.  So Charles Krauthammer wanted to know the difference between what she’s been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-liberal","category-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t