WaPo: NPR Insiders Furious NPR’s ‘Capitulating’ to Fox News and Others Opposing ‘Democracy’
On Saturday, Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi found that NPR insiders are furious at the forced resignation of Ellen Weiss, the senior vice president for news who so controversially canned Juan Williams. The liberal arrogance of NPR was on full display, that they were the future of “democracy,” and Fox News was clearly the enemy of democracy and an independent press: “We have allowed Fox News to define the debate,” wrote Peter Block, a member of the board of Cincinnati Public Radio, in a posting to an e-mail group consisting of public radio managers. He added, “I do not think this kind of capitulation [by NPR] assures the future of an independent press….Democracy is on the line and NPR is one of the last bastions of its possibility.” Farhi added that NPR's ombudsman, Alicia Shepard, also pointed to Fox (less harshly) in her column , that the Williams “incident has become a partisan issue in Washington's hothouse atmosphere, with Republicans (egged on by Fox News) using it as a rallying cry to demand that NPR be 'defunded' by the federal government.” Do
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