This is very disturbing. National Public Radio is a government funded, FCC regulated broadcast station. Mara Liasson is its chief political correspondent.
Obama's administration is now in charge of the agencies which control the regulation of public radio. NPR's chief executives have now tried to censor Mara.
Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said.
According to a source, Liasson was summoned in early October by NPR’s executive editor for news, Dick Meyer, and the network’s supervising senior Washington editor, Ron Elving. The NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox’s programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network.
One source said the White House’s criticism of Fox was raised during the discussions with Liasson. However, an NPR spokeswoman told POLITICO that the Obama administration’s attempts to discourage other news outlets from treating Fox as a peer had no impact on any internal discussions at NPR. [POLITICO]
"The Obama administration’s attempts to discourage other news
outlets from treating Fox as a peer had no impact on any internal
discussions at NPR."
Yeah, right.
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