re: #15 mattand

What’s galling about this is there is an entire fucking cable news network dedicated to promoting the Tea Baggers and the Republican party. Yet somehow one woman who freelances at a network with a fraction of Fox’s audience is destroying broadcasting ethics by voicing an opinion.

I wonder if NPR management has been takings spinelessness lessons fro the Democrats. So frustrating.

That’s just it, Fox News doesn’t directly take government dollars, so it’s free to whore itself out to whoever it likes. But NPR does, which means they have to walk a fine line even in the best of times. And the Right’s big focus right now is on silencing all forms of media they don’t directly control, so pulling the plug on NPR is a major priority. And their battleplan for accomplishing that is to portray it as some “Leftist propoganda network” so that cutting its funding looking “even-handed.”