NPR's Monday Reports on Tiller Murder Shut Out Pro-Lifers
June 2nd, 2009 2:15 PM
National Public Radio’s reporting on the George Tiller murder was perfect on Monday – in shutting out pro-life voices wanting to express regret. Reports on Morning Edition and on All Things Considered from Kansas City-based reporter Frank Morris lined up Tiller’s friends, lawyers, and customers to praise him.
NPR: Obama Shares Miss California's Same-sex Marriage Views
May 18th, 2009 11:21 AM
At almost the same time NPR's Peter Sagal and White House advisor David Axelrod were disgracefully mocking Carrie Prejean in front of a cheering crowd at George Washington University, NPR's Scott Simon was pointing out to his listeners how Barack Obama shares Miss California's views on same-sex marriage. Talk about your inconvenient truths.Potentially even more shocking, Simon exposed how absurd…
NPR Presses Democrat Into Saying Democracy In Cuba Would Cause Lack of
April 10th, 2009 4:44 PM
For a network that calmly bowed to the "advantages" of totalitarianism in Cuba's natural-disaster preparations, it was a bit shocking to hear National Public Radio anchor Melissa Block pressing a leftist congressman on Tuesday's All Things Considered about Cuban repression. Employing what should be the standard practice of presenting the opponent's position, in this case on normalizing relations…
Bozell Column: National Public Unfairness
March 24th, 2009 7:02 PM
There’s a huge hole in all of the public discussion about the reimposition of a "Fairness Doctrine" or a return to "localism" on the talk-radio format: What about National Public Radio? Liberals would like to "crush Rush" and his conservative compatriots by demanding each station balance its lineup ideologically. But since when has NPR ever felt any pressure to be balanced, even when a majority…
'Masterful' Obama Performance with Leno 'Calmed Down' Totenberg
March 23rd, 2009 9:28 AM
Since “I've really been getting pretty upset in the last week, just like every other American,” NPR's Nina Totenberg decided to watch President Obama on the Tonight Show “and he calmed me down. And he was presidential. I thought it was just a masterful performance.” The eager-to-be-impressed Totenberg made her comment on Inside Washington, a weekly show produced and aired over the weekend by…