Comments on: NPR Urges Mara Liasson To Freeze Out Fox News Over “Political Bias” http://www.mediaite.com/print/mara-liasson-fox-news/ Mediaite Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:08:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: Zakk http://www.mediaite.com/print/mara-liasson-fox-news/#comment-12810 Zakk Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:29:10 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=54438#comment-12810 Pat your right, there are all those conservative voices on NPR. Like....hmmmm...ummmmm....uhhhhhh.....hmmmmmm...... well - I'm sure there is one. Pat your right, there are all those conservative voices on NPR. Like….hmmmm…ummmmm….uhhhhhh…..hmmmmmm…… well – I’m sure there is one.

]]> By: MartiniShark http://www.mediaite.com/print/mara-liasson-fox-news/#comment-12624 MartiniShark Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:42:12 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=54438#comment-12624 Not to be the bearer of obviousness, but wouldn't the regular appearances of Mara alone contradict the NPR contention that Fox is biased? They have her on nearly every day, so maybe Liasson is therefore biased as well. Not to be the bearer of obviousness, but wouldn’t the regular appearances of Mara alone contradict the NPR contention that Fox is biased? They have her on nearly every day, so maybe Liasson is therefore biased as well.

]]> By: Pat Doherty http://www.mediaite.com/print/mara-liasson-fox-news/#comment-12611 Pat Doherty Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:17:19 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=54438#comment-12611 From my perspective, your refusal to see NPR as liberal more or less proves my point, but whatever. Care to give me any examples of the "extraordinary lengths" NPR takes to be "incredibly, incredibly balanced" (would NPR's ostensible balance really be that incredible?). Do you believe Daniel Schorr and Nina Totenberg are objective journalists? Please cite the conservative commentators who are NPR contributors with the stature of Schorr, Totenberg, and Mara Liasson. P.S. I never said Fox News is balanced. To the best of my knowledge however, they've never actively attempted to pressure a contributor from appearing on NPR. From my perspective, your refusal to see NPR as liberal more or less proves my point, but whatever. Care to give me any examples of the “extraordinary lengths” NPR takes to be “incredibly, incredibly balanced” (would NPR’s ostensible balance really be that incredible?). Do you believe Daniel Schorr and Nina Totenberg are objective journalists? Please cite the conservative commentators who are NPR contributors with the stature of Schorr, Totenberg, and Mara Liasson.

P.S. I never said Fox News is balanced. To the best of my knowledge however, they’ve never actively attempted to pressure a contributor from appearing on NPR.

]]> By: m http://www.mediaite.com/print/mara-liasson-fox-news/#comment-12593 m Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:38:41 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=54438#comment-12593 The very fact you think NPR is liberal is a prime example where the whine of "liberal bias" is just a complete sham. NPR are incredibly, incredibly balanced and take extraordinary lengths to ensure they are. If you think Fox News is balanced while NPR isn't? Well, then you've got an incredible cognitive dissonance. The very fact you think NPR is liberal is a prime example where the whine of “liberal bias” is just a complete sham. NPR are incredibly, incredibly balanced and take extraordinary lengths to ensure they are. If you think Fox News is balanced while NPR isn’t? Well, then you’ve got an incredible cognitive dissonance.

]]> By: Pat Doherty http://www.mediaite.com/print/mara-liasson-fox-news/#comment-12576 Pat Doherty Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:17:15 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=54438#comment-12576 NPR, like most liberal media, is affected by the same curious cognitive phenomenon: The inability to admit they're liberal. NPR, like most liberal media, is affected by the same curious cognitive phenomenon: The inability to admit they’re liberal.

]]> By: StewartIII http://www.mediaite.com/print/mara-liasson-fox-news/#comment-12557 StewartIII Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:26:30 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=54438#comment-12557 NewsBusters: MSNBC's Scarborough Points Out NPR's Bias Hypocrisy http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-sargent/2009/12/07/msnbcs-scarborough-points-out-nprs-bias-hypocrisy NewsBusters: MSNBC’s Scarborough Points Out NPR’s Bias Hypocrisy
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-sargent/2009/12/07/msnbcs-scarborough-points-out-nprs-bias-hypocrisy

]]> By: Zakk http://www.mediaite.com/print/mara-liasson-fox-news/#comment-12554 Zakk Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:57:49 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=54438#comment-12554 Not for nothing, but isn't NPR a public radio station. Shouldn't it have no bias for either side, therefore not have any opinion. UNLESS the white house is telling them to push this stupid idea. Not for nothing, but isn’t NPR a public radio station. Shouldn’t it have no bias for either side, therefore not have any opinion. UNLESS the white house is telling them to push this stupid idea.

]]> By: straitshooter http://www.mediaite.com/print/mara-liasson-fox-news/#comment-12538 straitshooter Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:58:23 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=54438#comment-12538 Did anyone watch Morning Joe today? Scarborough ripped into NPR over this whole thing. Called them a bunch of pot-smoking, tree-bark eating hippies and said it is an "absolute joke" for an organization like NPR to be criticizing Fox for having a bias. You could tell he was delighted by the opportunity to pull back the curtain and expose NPR for what everyone knows it is. Did anyone watch Morning Joe today? Scarborough ripped into NPR over this whole thing. Called them a bunch of pot-smoking, tree-bark eating hippies and said it is an “absolute joke” for an organization like NPR to be criticizing Fox for having a bias. You could tell he was delighted by the opportunity to pull back the curtain and expose NPR for what everyone knows it is.

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