A lot of these liberal reporters really believe this. Comes from spending all their time in a newsroom where everybody thinks like you do.
Sunday Lunch with ... Carl Kasell
June 12, 2005
BY DEBRA PICKETT SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
".......With Edwards gone, Kasell is one of only two "Morning Edition" staffers who've been around since the show's beginning. But he has no plans to retire, he says, because he's having so much fun that "there's nothing to retire from."
Still, a certain frustration with NPR, which has grown and changed enormously since Kasell started there in 1977, does creep into his voice. He refers to managers there as "the suits."
And, when the topic of public broadcasting's alleged liberal bias -- recently in the news when Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson editorialized about it in the Washington Times -- comes up, Kasell bristles.
"We have had meetings on this," he says. ". . . I was at one the other day, a long session on fair and balanced reporting."
His tone makes it clear that he is not a fan of such meetings.
"That perception of bias might have been valid in the early days" of public radio, he says, but is definitely not true now.
"Today, our demographics are split right down the middle," he says, his voice full of authority.
And, somehow, when he says it, it sounds like it is absolutely true.
Of course, everything he says sounds that way."
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