NPR To Mara Liasson: Stay Off Fox!
This just strikes me as bizarre.
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.
Ok, so let’s get this straight. Taxpayer subsidized NPR, which is one of the more blatantly left-wing media outlets there – and which provides little, if any, sense of balance – wants one of their own to stay off Fox because they claim Fox is biased.
Yet, you would think the fact that Liasson is welcome on Fox and has been appeared on Special Report for years would completely undercut their accusation.
Fascinating.
(h/t Gateway Pundit)
Anybody besides me disturbed that this sounds an awful lot like DOUBLETHINK? You know, the concept George Orwell described in “1984″ like this:
“To be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety… ”
“ The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them….To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies…with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”
In the novel’s notes, Orwell describes it as “controlled insanity.”
Hey if the shoe fits…let the leftists wear it.
December 8th, 2009 at 9:20 pm