{"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":"<p>Nina Totenberg is an NPR news <em>correspondent<\/em>.&#160; She&#8217;s supposed to report the news straight and without bias.&#160; This has not kept her from offering opinions over the years anyway.&#160; She went so far as to wish AIDS on Jesse Helms or his grandchildren.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>So Charles Krauthammer wanted to know the difference between what she&#8217;s been doing for at least the past 15 years, and what Juan Williams did that got him fired.&#160; Juan is, or was, an NPR news <em>analyst<\/em>, which Krauthammer argues might have <em>less<\/em> of an appearance-of-objectivity standard than a correspondent.&#160; So he asks, what&#8217;s the line that Juan crossed?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.org\/biasalert\/2010\/20101025122504.aspx\">No one can give him a straight answer, not even Totenburg herself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NPR&#8217;s long history of liberal bias answers the question itself.&#160; You don&#8217;t get a second look if you wish death to a Republican or his grandchildren.&#160; But express your honest fears, even acknowledging that they are irrational, and you&#8217;re out the door.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>There should no longer be any question whatsoever of the overwhelming bias of the NPR news organization.&#160; Intellectual honesty demands an accounting of the Juan Williams firing, after which that is the inescapable conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina Totenberg is an NPR news correspondent.&#160; She&#8217;s supposed to report the news straight and without bias.&#160; This has not kept her from offering opinions over the years anyway.&#160; She went so far as to wish AIDS on Jesse Helms or his grandchildren.&#160; So Charles Krauthammer wanted to know the difference between what she&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}