Thursday, October 21, 2010
Gubbmint-Owned-Media Censorship?
will this make him a TEA Partier?
Juan Williams got canned from NPR.
Late Wednesday night, NPR issued a statement praising Williams as a valuable contributor but saying it had given him notice that it is severing his contract. “His remarks on The O’Reilly Factor this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR,”
Disclosure: I’ve never been much of a Williams fan. That’s not important, now. What is important is that the Gubbmint funded [You ‘n’ Me] media fired him for ... what, now?
[on O’Reilly] “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country,” ... “But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they’re identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
..."[Faisal Shahzad, Times Square Bomber] said the war with Muslims, America’s war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don’t think there’s any way to get away from these facts,"
This may be key…
Muslim advocacy groups and liberal commentators reacted with outrage to Williams’s comments on “The O’Reilly Factor” and called for his ouster.
In a related story, Rick Sanchez got fired from CNN for this:
He’s such a minority, I mean, you know [sarcastically]... Please, what are you kidding? ... I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they—the people in this country who are Jewish—are an oppressed minority? Yeah. [sarcastically] [HuffPo Link]
...or this?
”...I mean I’m sorry but I just don’t buy this thing that the only people out there who are prejudiced are the right, there’s people who are prejudiced on both sides.
... I must have at some point. But yeah, look my point is very simple. I see stuff O’Reilly and Glenn Beck do and I say, “wow that’s very discriminatory, that’s very prejudicial.” And I look at stuff that Colbert and Jon Stewart do and I think, “wow that’s very prejudicial.” So, you know we have a tendency to only look at one side. I’m saying we ought to be able to look at both sides. That’s all I’m saying.
hm… This may also be key:
Open Society Foundations is donating the large sum to NPR for a project being called “Impact of Government.” The project is planning to add at least 100 reporters across the country to cover local state house politics to fill the holes left by the firing of so many local reporters due to the contraction in the field of journalism over the last decade.
... the journalists would not be part of typical statehouse coverage, but instead would work on enterprise journalism that looks at how state government decisions play out over years, and extend beyond a single state’s borders.
[emph mine - e~C]
Coinkydink? sure.
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