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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2275
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 08:38 am: | 
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One more reason for me to love NPR! LOL
The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the weekend, offering analyst Juan Williams a presidential interview to mark yesterday's 50th anniversary of school desegregation in Little Rock.
But NPR turned down the interview, and Williams's talk with Bush wound up in a very different media venue: Fox News.
...Ellen Weiss, NPR's vice president for news, said she "felt strongly" that "the White House shouldn't be selecting the person." She said NPR told Bush's press secretary, Dana Perino, that "we're grateful for the opportunity to talk to the president but we wanted to determine who did the interview." When the White House said the offer could not be transferred to one of NPR's program hosts, Weiss took a pass.
...While it is not unusual for the White House to offer a presidential sitdown to a particular anchor or correspondent, Weiss noted that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox have all had their anchors interview Bush and that NPR has been requesting such a session for seven years. When Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign last week offered an interview to NPR's health reporter, Weiss said, the network obtained permission to have it done instead by "All Things Considered" host Melissa Block...
Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092502258. html |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2682
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 11:45 am: |
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Nice post Yvettep. But I'm sure Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity will have a different spin. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10036
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 12:32 pm: |
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Of course the white house could never take a chance on having Bush interviewed by anybody who might ask questions that would totally stump Dubya. Even if he was briefed before hand, the subject of school desegregation is something that a child raised in a world of wealth and privilege could never empathize with or relate to, especially if he grew up to become a shallow adult like Bush. President Eisenhower didn't demonstrate a lot of sensitivity or leadership 50 years ago when this crises occurred, and Bush would be hard pressed to have any sincere sentiments about the issue today. NPR made a prudent decision. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2283
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 12:34 pm: |
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^ Agree. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5340
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 10:48 am: |
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...Ellen Weiss, NPR's vice president for news, said she "felt strongly" that "the White House shouldn't be selecting the person." She said NPR told Bush's press secretary, Dana Perino, that "we're grateful for the opportunity to talk to the president but we wanted to determine who did the interview." When the White House said the offer could not be transferred to one of NPR's program hosts, Weiss took a pass.
...While it is not unusual for the White House to offer a presidential sitdown to a particular anchor or correspondent, Weiss noted that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox have all had their anchors interview Bush and that NPR has been requesting such a session for seven years. When Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign last week offered an interview to NPR's health reporter, Weiss said, the network obtained permission to have it done instead by "All Things Considered" host Melissa Block...
(All the sucking up they have done to the Bushites means nothing.
They should have taken the sop the White House threw them and run with it. Juan could have licked George up, he'd have been happy, their Congressional appropriations and corporate donors would have been happy, and they could have gone on.
NPR has sold out.
It is nothing but Fox News with femnists, gays, and World Music. |
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