NPR Exec: Liberal Slant is an "Urban Myth"
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Stephen Spruiell Reporting
NPR President Kevin Klose says NPR's liberal slant is just another one of those "urban myths":
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Klose and [NPR executive vice president Ken] Stern are dismissive of the idea that there is too much of a liberal slant to public broadcasting. That's been fueled by Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the agency that funnels public money to public TV and radio.
"It's an urban myth," said Klose, who worked in Chicago as the Washington Post Midwest bureau chief for four years in the 1980s.
"The problem with Tomlinson isn't that he disrupted funding or affected our journalism, because that will never happen, but he created smoke," Stern said. "It's smoke and people who don't know us fanned the urban myth."
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You know the one about the kid who got straight As when his roommate committed suicide? Or the one about the guy who fell asleep in Mexico and woke up with one of his kidneys missing? Or the one about how every time I turn on NPR I hear stuff like this:
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TIM WISE: ...Why did they loot? Are you kidding? People are dying on live TV and you're begrudging them candy bars, diapers and water. If anything, the poor of New Orleans have exercised restraint. Can you imagine what would happen if it were well-off white folks stranded like this, people who complain about estate taxes. I know, the mere thought of it is absurd, but try to envision what would happen if the corporate class had to sit in the hot sun for five days without a margarita to comfort them...
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and this:
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Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Economist, Author): Well, this is like the fox investigating who ate the chickens. There is no way that Mr. Bush should be leading this investigation... I don't think that Mr. Bush can lead an impartial investigation. He was caught with his pants down, quite frankly, fiddling while New Orleans flooded, and it makes no sense at all for the chief culprit to be the chief investigator.
and this:
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DANIEL SCHORR: ... Now, as Vice President Dick Cheney is dispatched to the flood-stricken area to ride herd over the belated federal effort, the president defensively asks Americans to put off the blame game, promising his own investigation of what went wrong in the federal response to Katrina. I hope he won't be too hard on himself... It will undoubtedly reassure you to know that the president, tanned and ready after his long Texas vacation, retains his flair for lighthearted jokes. At the end of a Cabinet session yesterday, he noted that the list of replacements for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is wide open. And he added, `Make sure you notice when I said that, I looked right at Al Gonzales, who can really create speculation.'
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That was just last Wednesday. Taxpayer-funded liberal rants on NPR — just another one of those crazy urban myths. Thank God it's not true.
(via Romenesko)
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