NPR Reports On U.S. Liberal Bias — Tilted to Theorist Who Laments Reporters Aren’t Openly Liberal Enough
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, journalism professor Jay Rosen, a favorite of Bill Moyers . On the website, the story was headlined: “American Media's True Ideology? Avoiding One.” Anchor Steve Inskeep began: Yesterday on this program, we heard a story from London about the boisterous world of British newspapers and how they, unlike their American counterparts, openly embrace a point of view. Today, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik brings us an influential media critic who argues that mainstream American journalists do cling to their own ideology. It's not exactly on the right, not exactly on the left. He calls it the voice from nowhere.” It's not hard to imagine that Jay Rosen is “influential” in liberal media circles when he tells them they're not being liberal enough for him. Folkenflik set up his theory and his hopes and dreams for more bias: read more
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NPR Reports On U.S. Liberal Bias — Tilted to Theorist Who Laments Reporters Aren’t Openly Liberal Enough
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