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Sunday, January 09, 2011

Newsmax: Juan Williams Lambastes NPR as Exec Who Fired Him Steps Down

Juan Williams Lambastes NPR as Exec Who Fired Him Steps Down

By David A. Patten

Thursday, 06 Jan 2011 06:03 PM


News analyst Juan William contends that National Public Radio (NPR) promotes an “incestuous” organizational culture that is “not open to real news.” Williams’ scathing comments followed an independent review of his firing in October, which in turn led to the resignation of NPR news executive Ellen Weiss on Thursday.

Weiss fired the affable Williams for confessing on Fox News that he sometimes gets nervous when flying with Muslims dressed in traditional garb.

Shortly after the firing, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller said during remarks to the Atlanta Press Club that Williams should have kept his feelings between himself and “his psychiatrist or his publicist.”

Juan Williams, NPR, Fox, fired, WeissOn Thursday, Williams told Fox News host Megyn Kelly: “The whole idea was to demean me, and make me to appear as if I was not only a lunatic who needed a psychiatrist, but I was a loose cannon and not a professional news person.”

Schiller later apologized to Williams for what she described as “my thoughtless remark.”

The firing touched off a storm of criticism from conservative leaders who slammed NPR for rampant political correctness and liberal bias.

Among those coming to Williams’ defense: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.



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Sunday, October 31, 2010

NPR's Most E-Mailed Stories

NPR's Most E-Mailed Stories

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Glenn Nichols, city manager of Benson, Ariz.
NPR NEWS INVESTIGATIONS
The state's new law could send hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to prison. An analysis of fund-raising documents, lobbying records and corporate reports shows that the private prison industry helped draft and pass the measure.
EDUCATION
Find a quiet location. Keep a routine. Focus on one subject at a time. It all seems like sound advice for students who need to study, but new research indicates the conventional wisdom is all wrong. New York Times reporter Benedict Carey shares a list of ways to make the most of your study time.
FITNESS & NUTRITION
"Bonking" or "hitting the wall" is that awful moment when marathoners run out of gas. They've used up all of the carbohydrate fuel stored in their liver and muscles, and their bodies are forced to switch, painfully, to burning fat. Now a marathoning Harvard-MIT student has figured out how to calculate that point.
MUSIC INTERVIEWS
The guitarist opens up about his music, his legendary journeys on the road with The Rolling Stones and his occasionally contentious relationship with lead singer Mick Jagger in a new memoir called Life.
BRAIN CANDY
Poker's a game of probability, statistics and modeling -- which makes it a perfect pastime for physicists. They're flocking to the game, and the best are winning millions.
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Juan Williams on Fox News, Oct. 21, 2010.
THE TWO-WAY
The news analyst said on Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factorthat when he's on a plane, people in "Muslim garb" make him nervous. NPR says the comments "were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices."
DOLLARS FOR DOCS: HOW PHARMA MONEY INFLUENCES PHYSICIAN PRESCRIPTIONS
NPR-PROPUBLICA INVESTIGATION: Drug companies say they hire the most-respected doctors in their fields to teach about the benefits and risks of their drugs. But hundreds of doctors receiving payments have been accused of professional misconduct or were disciplined by state medical boards.
IT'S ALL POLITICS
Christine O'Donnell appeared not to know that the First Amendment requires the separation of church and state. She revealed this lack of knowledge at a debate with rival Chris Coons at before an audience of law professors and students.
MEDICAL TREATMENTS
Shock-wave therapy for plantar fasciitis is beginning to catch on around the U.S., partly since this stubborn type of foot pain is so common -- and so difficult to treat. But studies show conflicting results, partly because there's no standardized method.
POP CULTURE
A little Muppet girl has started a sensation. The brown doll with a beautifully kinky mop of hair sings "I Love My Hair." The song was written by Joey Mazzarino, Sesame Street's head writer. He wrote the song to help his adopted daughter celebrate herself and, of course, her hair.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi' by TRAVIS LARCHUK

The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi'

by TRAVIS LARCHUK

It's in your airports, your coffee shops and your libraries: "Free Public WiFi."
Despite its enticing name, the network, available in thousands of locations across the United States, does not actually provide access to the Internet. But like a virus, it has spread — and may even be lurking on your computer right now.
Wireless security expert Joshua Wright first noticed it about four years ago at an airport.
"I went to connect to an available wireless network and I saw this option, Free Public WiFi," he remembers. "As I looked more and more, I saw this in more and more locations. And I was aware from my job and analysis in the field that this wasn't a sanctioned, provisioned wireless network, but it was actually something rogue."
Free Public WiFi isn't set up like most wireless networks people use to get to the Internet. Instead, it's an "ad hoc" network — meaning when a user selects it, he or she isn't connecting to a router or hot spot, but rather directly to someone else's computer in the area.
Though it doesn't actually provide Internet access, the network has spread across the country thanks to an old Windows XP bug... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130451369&sc=nl&cc=es-20101017

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NPR most e-mailed stories October 17, 2010

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TECHNOLOGY
Thanks to human nature and a Windows bug, a "rogue" wireless network managed to spread like a virus across the country, without the help of the Internet.
FIRST LISTEN
It's one thing to write "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" or "Blowin' in the Wind" by age 24. But add "Ballad of Hollis Brown," "Boots of Spanish Leather," "Mr. Tambourine Man" and other bits of genius to the list, and it really hits hard what a phenomenal talent Dylan was at such a young age. Hear many of his early demos until their release on Oct. 19.
THE PICTURE SHOW
Edward Horsford's high-speed photography freezes the spherical innards of water balloons -- just as the balloon skins break open.
MUSIC INTERVIEWS
In August 1980, writer David Sheff flew to New York for the assignment of his life: an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Over the course of three weeks, he witnessed the day-to-day life of the couple in their Manhattan apartment, months before Lennon was shot dead outside the building. Here, Sheff shares several audio recordings of his interview, most of which has never been broadcast.
KRULWICH WONDERS???
Thinking about the smallest things in nature is difficult. But when you get below speck-level, thinking about it is a very intellectual exercise. And one of the champions of small-scale thinking turns out to be, of all people, the Buddha.
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Four Years of Lefty Spin from Couric as 'Evening News' Anchor

Profile in Bias: Four Years of Katie Couric's Liberal Spin as 'CBS Evening News' Anchor

Tuesday marks the four-year anniversary of Katie Couric's assumption of the anchor chair for the CBS Evening News on Tuesday, September 5, 2006. To commemorate the occasion, the Media Research Center has assembled <Perking Up for Liberal Spin, a profile in bias of Couric's top forty biased quotes from her four years at CBS.

Marking her one-year anniversary, a September 2007 MRC Media Reality Check, New Network, Same Old Biased Katie, noted: "In her first year at the helm of the CBS Evening News, Katie Couric has perpetuated the bias problem that eroded CBS's credibility under Dan Rather." The three years that followed were no exception, as Couric actively promoted liberal figures and causes, while disparaging conservatives. From cheering on Barack Obama's campaign and presidential agenda to smearing Arizona's immigration law or opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, she has maintained her long journalistic record of liberal slant.

Couric's biased reporting has not been a hit with the broadcast's shrinking audience, during the week of August 16, 2010, the network news program tied it's all-time ratings low, slipping below five million viewers.
Follow the link for some bias highlights from Couric's four years behind the anchor desk.

Bozell: Congratulations to ABC News on Departure of President David Westin

Congratulations, ABC News! You are now free from the 14-year reign of the news president that helped drive your ratings into the ground.
Under his leadership, Westin continually promoted some of the most liberally biased reporters in news, including George Stephanopoulos, Diane Sawyer, Christine Amanpour and Bill Weir.  He hired an Obama donor as ABC’s new Senior Medical Editor in the midst of the healthcare debate and ignored the 83,000 Americans who petitioned him to ensure that ABC reported the truth about Obama’s government takeover of healthcare. Westin neglected to address the obvious conflict of interest in George Stephanopoulos’ daily strategy phone call with Rahm Emanuel, and failed to keep his promise that ABC News would offer ‘objective’ reporting on the War on Terror in 2003. He even had the gall to suggest that the Pentagon was a legitimate terrorism target in the wake of September 11th. Two years later, he banned any ABC News personnel from wearing a patriotic flag lapel pin.
ABC should seize the opportunity to replace Westin with a president who will deliver what the American people want and deserve – real journalism. It’s ABC’s only glimmer of hope for surviving in the news industry.

NPR Compares Palin, Gingrich to Historic Anti-Semites, Sympathizes with Former CAIR Publicist


National Public Radio is strongly urging America to get over its apparently rabid case of Islamophobia. On Sunday night's All Things Considered newscast, anchor Guy Raz played audio clips of Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin opposing the Ground Zero Mosque, and then launched into how much this resembles historic anti-Semitism:
In his column today, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof points out that in 1940, 17 percent of the population considered Jews to be a menace to America. Almost every ethnic group in this country has gone through a period of transition when they had to fight to prove that, indeed, they were Americans.
Rabiah Ahmed and a group of Muslim leaders thought their community had to do the same today. So this week, they launched an online video campaign called "My Faith, My Voice."
What Raz does not point out is that Rabiah Ahmed is a former publicist and prominent national spokesperson for the Council for Islamic-American Relations (CAIR), a group named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in a terrorist funding case. Raz didn't so much conduct a news interview with Rabiah Ahmed as much as he joined her in condemning the sad and bigoted state of America today.

CBS's Smith Pressures GOP to Sign On to 'Obama's New Deal'
WaPo Tries to Bury Their Own Depressing Poll Numbers for Dems Off the Front Page
NYT Bemoans Republican's Fake Candidates, Ignored Nearly Identical Democratic Ploy

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

NPR: A Victim Treats His Mugger Right

A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
March 28, 2008
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Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.
But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.
He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.
"He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, 'Here you go,'" Diaz says.
As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, "Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you're going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm."
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Produced for Morning Edition by Michael Garofalo.

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