Juan Williams rethinks NPR
Juan Williams
Juan Williams was quick to accept a few million bucks from Roger Ailes and jump to Fox News after NPR gave him the boot. He then went on a non-stop NPR-bashing tour, accusing the radio network of being “elitist and white.”
Williams is singing a different tune these days, according to Capital New York’s Glynnis MacNicol. She writes:
Fox News political analyst Juan Williams misses working for NPR “big time.”
“Because that’s such an informed and influential audience,” he told me last night at the swanky Industria Studios, a big loft and event space in the far West Village. “And the thing is that audience really liked me and I would often times help raise money for NPR.”
I asked NPR’s PR department if they wanted to comment on Williams’ remarks. “Thanks for the opportunity to but we’ll pass,” a spokesman said.
What is Juan Williams’ endgame here?
He cannot possibly think that Roger Ailes and Fox News will have any qualms about (or suffer any backlash in) firing Williams if he isn’t a full-throated supporter of Fox.
And he certainly is asking a great deal for the new NPR (which replaced its CEO after Williams was fired) to forgive and forget and bring him back within their fold.
I look upon this as a teachable moment. Williams couldn’t possibly have known the base ignorance which constitutes the Fox commentariat. Now that he is daily exposed to their racism and ignorance, he finds that the comfort of a multi-million dollar contract is cold comfort indeed.
NPR is biased toward one political party — and then expects to receive its taxpayer handout on time without complaint. NPR makes stuff up! Just because the sneering condenscention appeals to leftists, doesn’t mean it’s accurate. And saying NPR is elitist and white is like saying night comes after day.
Hi wubbly – Can you provide any examples of NPR’s bias toward one political party? I’d be quite interested in seeing some. Is there an equivalent of “Media Matters” for NPR that regularly points out the bias?
Two words: Vivian Schiller
I used to ask this regularly whenever people made the charge that NPR is politically biased: Can you cite even one credible example of such bias? Even though there are a few instances from over the years that could bolster such a case (though of course anecdotes aren’t proof, and there are probably more examples that could be cited for just the opposite charge), the Internet Commentariat, often in the form of a sniveling anonymous coward, can’t come up with any.
Here, we have a charge that “NPR makes stuff up.” When examples are called for, we don’t get any (because there aren’t any), we get meaningless nonsense. Which makes me wonder what people like Wubbly think others get out of their posts other than the notion that such commenters are pathetic and a bit simpleminded.
Wow, Wow, Wubbly. More unsupported balderdash from you. Time to go back to the WubClub with Widget and Walden.
I guess you guys completely forgot about Vivian Schiller and the Apple story. Vivian Schiller was forced out because she was recorded expressing NPR management’s attitude toward conservatives/Republicans. NPR retracted the Apple story because, well, it was made up. You guys need to pay attention.
You know, if you’re going to charge people with making stuff up, you should probably refrain from making stuff up while doing so.
You made up two huge whoppers in just two sentences. This American Life isn’t NPR, and has nothing to do with NPR (and in any case, the producers didn’t make anything up, though Mike Daisey did (and unlike, say, Fox News, they devoted all kinds of effort to setting the record straight). Also, the story had nothing to do with left-wing political bias.
Vivian Schiller was never recorded expressing anything about conservatives/Republicans. You made that up. Most likely because you are a typical, dime-a-dozen, self-hating Internet commenter who for some reason gets a little thrill out of bleating nonsense, and you can’t be bothered with actually checking your facts, even when it would take 30 seconds to do so.
And,still not a single example – not even a half-assed one – of NPR being politically biased.
Which again raises the question you should ask yourself: why do you do this? What do you get out of it? You can’t believe you’re convincing anyone of anything, can you? So …why?
Wubbly — this is why Vivian Schiller resigned:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2011/0309/Vivian-Schiller-NPR-chief-resigns-amid-uproar-over-sting-video
I’m going to ban you from this site if you continue to post inaccurate information/libel/whatever.
You can’t post slander, though.
Excuse me, libel.