NPR vs. Fox News & Juan Williams: The Conservative Conspiracy Theory

[Elmore Furth]

This Juan Williams firing just gets more fun all of the time. It makes me want to donate to NPR's pledge drive. God, I hate Fox News.

Fox News is Mr. Williams’ other employer and the place where he made his controversial statement about Muslims. Mr. Soros recently donated $1.8 million to NPR, seen by conservative critics (and certainly by Mr. Beck) as proof (a) that NPR is a liberal mouthpiece and (b) that billionaire Soros pressured NPR to get rid of Williams.

“Up until then, opinions by NPR correspondents and analysts had been expressed in abundance, but Williams' statement on Fox, because it was expressed on Fox, amounted to apostasy,” editorializes Investor’s Business Daily. “The firing sends a message that Fox is beyond the pale and must be silenced.”

In addition to his gift to NPR, Soros also recently gave $1 million to Media Matters “to hold Fox News accountable for the false and misleading information they so often broadcast.” Media Matters is the progressive media watchdog which has been pressuring advertisers to drop their business with Fox News because of Beck’s alleged “hate speech leading to violence.”

Writes NPR ombudsman Shephard: “This latest incident with Williams centers around a collision of values: NPR's values emphasizing fact-based, objective journalism versus the tendency in some parts of the news media, notably Fox News, to promote only one side of the ideological spectrum.”


NPR vs. Fox News: Juan Williams firing reveals deeper media fight

[Bitwit1234]

1. Hey how about the million fox donated to the republican governors

and then didn't they just donate another million to some other republican cause. I guess when it comes to donating money fox and the republicans can, BUT damn don't let a Democrat donate any money all heck at fox breaks loose. And besides Soros did not donate to a Democratic cause, he donated to a public independent cause.