CEO Vivian Schiller out at NPR

So how was he taped? Legally?

 

Wait, she's resigning for something somebody else said?

As far as the "sting," how is this situation any different than a TV undercover report that uses a hidden camera? 60 Minutes has been doing that forever.

 

But were those people breaking the law when they were being recorded?

I guess maybe I should not be so questioning of the hidden camera, especially after the Wisconsin thing, but at least he was a public figure.

 

I'm all for accountability in journalism.

I think NPR might be most valuable in those areas underserved by radio. When you are travelling in the hinterlands you normally have three choices, righty talk, religious, and NPR.
I'm not a daily listener, but it's a must on weekend mornings.

 

Is it possible that NPR in fact IS more balanced than everything else out there, just because everything else out there is skewed?

I think NPR's all for diverse viewpoints. What it's not going to do is what some, on all sides, are guilty of, which is allowing people to claim that blatantly false statements are "their opinion" and therefore worthy of air time. If I say the sky is green, I'm not entitled to equal consideration. That's not an opinion; that's just wrong.

 

People really need to get over it. This country has far bigger problems than government money going to NPR. I love how my side is freaking out over net neutrality and the so-called "fairness doctrine" while, at the same time, trying to get rid of NPR by pulling the funding.

 

That is the argument I make to defend Fox News all the time...that they are actually balanced, but seem to lean right because of the leftward tilt of everything else.

 

So you're saying bias just might be in the eye of the beholder?

 

How would this guy not recognize O'Keefe.

 

You are not so good at arguing, then. How many times do you see NPR "misidentify" the political party of an official in trouble?

 

It was a couple of guys "working for" O'Keefe, not O'Keefe himself.

 

So, NPR always gets the chyron's they put up the screen right?