The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132990 Message #3014700
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
25-Oct-10 - 12:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: NPR fires Juan Williams
Subject: RE: BS: NPR fires Juan Williams
The point is that Daniel Schorr would not and did not stoop to the level that Juan Williams has occupied for the past few years, and if you don't know that I wonder where you got your hands on Daniel Schorr's name.
Implying that Daniel Schorr ever did anything anywhere on Earth like Juan Williams did at Fox is a smear on a dead man's reputation as a journalist. And that man's reputation as a journalist was one of his proudest accomplishments. I know this because I have heard him say so. Not to mention having heard it from his peers at NPR in several on air eulogies.
Good news coverage needs to be sterile. It needs to be uncontaminated by personal bias. NPR is not completely "sterile" in that way but at least they try.
If you want unsterile, contaminated radio, you can turn on Limbaugh and have him talk about himself for half the time and spend the other half trying to twist little snippets of news into an insane anarchist narrative. Or you can listen to Beck try to scare you into buying gold and dried apocalypse ready food from his paid sponsors.