CEO Vivian Schiller Finds “No Particular Bias” at NPR (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, March 7, 2011, 7:51 PM
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller spoke at the National Press Club today.
The far left journalist claimed that NPR did not have any particular bias.
Oh, please.
Via Townhall:
NPR’s President and CEO, Vivian Schiller throws down the gauntlet during Monday’s National Press Club. She proclaims that NPR has “no particular bias.” During the hour-long coverage on C-SPAN2, Mrs. Schiller repeats her evaluation that NPR is a bi-partisan news agency and that their reporting is “ethical”. Hmmmm.
News Busters posted a few reminders for Vivian Schiller:
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Published May 22, 2012 at 5:04 am - 40 Comments
GP Loves Obama commented:
I sometimes listen to NPR and it is full leftist bias lies and propoganda.
Deekaman commented:
And crazy people never think they are crazy.
ar05075 commented:
Gee, wadda shock.
Granny commented:
Of course she doesn’t see any bias.
MustComment commented:
Why would she? She’s been brainwashed.
Ruebacca commented:
90% of the left is supported buy our tax dollars. We need to stop paying for opponents with public money.
Patience commented:
I can’t wait for their Spring-time fund-raiser phone calls. I will provide explict instuctions on where they can insert their solicitations.
tommy mc donnell commented:
there is a particular at NPR. its leftward, so that is not a problem for ms schiller.
american patriot commented:
She does an excellent Captain Renault, “I’m shocked, shocked, that we have an overwhelming number of liberal perspectives on PBS and NPR.”
AuntieMadder commented:
Gee, Vivian, could it be that your perception is biased?
bigkahuna commented:
Welfare radio /tv like half of the libs…supported on the public dole. If we eliminated the liberal welfare part of the budget we would have a balanced budget.
timwi commented:
This is off topic, but if you want to watch something funny, and have ever seen Toddlers and Tiara’s you’ll enjoy this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLWKBWkn3s
Rhoda A commented:
She’s living in an ‘immersive environment’. That’s where everyone she comes in contact with shares her views and values. Under those circumstances it’s not surprising that she thinks that NPR is unbiased. Unfortuantely, she doesn’t have the imagination to conceptualize people beyond her immediate immersive environment – we’re just a bad dream brought on by bad grass, or something.
Multitude commented:
Hey now, you self-righteous teabaggers! Back off the Ministry of Information official. She’s absolutely correct that there is no bias against the State, just as Pravda, Goebbels and other state propaganda instruments exercised no bias. Her report confirms the highly detailed professional assessment conducted by the external examiners from the highly esteemed Media Matters consultancy, accredited in evaluating the credibility of totalitarian information ministry practices.
I’m actually beginning to agree with the Media Matters experts in recognizing that some of you are just not realistically “saveable.” As White House “Thought Leadership Czar” William Ayers has thoughtfully pointed out, it’s likely that 20-30 million of you will have to be subjected to the reprogramming camps and given a final “last chance” to get with the program. The United States cannot be expected to compete in a post-hegemonic green-energy capital-free dollar-demolished Soros-evangelized global marketplace with a workforce as insubordinate, insolent and indignant as you property-clinging, bible-thumping, children-protecting teabag hacks.
Multitude commented:
Oh and Vivian… a personal note. Loved the speech. Damn you’re bitchin, girl. WINNING!
donh commented:
Yes Vivian and Akmedinijad does not see any Gays in Iran
B3tterD3adthanR3d commented:
You got to love useful idiots like this lady. She is typical of a Jonestown cult member.
Jackie commented:
Her elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top……………idiot.
L.E. Liesner commented:
I’ll bet the farm she couldn’t find a terrorist at Gitmo either.
Robert commented:
Here is an example of bias.
My mom likes the network news. On ABC News this evening they did a story on the rising gas prices. The only solution they had was mentioning electric cars, along with saying that it would affect people’s driving habits (drive less you morons).
I explained that they made no mention that the Democrat party has effectively shut off energy production, from not drilling anywhere to cancelling permits in the gulf. I also mentioned that they kept nuclear power plants from being built anywhere, so where would the power even come from to charge the electric cars?
None of this was said on the newscast.
Bias manifests itself by what they DON’T say as much as what they DO.
OxyCon commented:
Proof that Schiller should have been fired over the firing scandal of Juan Williams.
Multitude commented:
Apparently listening to oppositional perspectives is also not part of “being bias-free.” Of course, it’s much easier to sustain the delusion of not having a bias when there is no confrontational perspective challenging your frame in the first place. “Truth? Why the Party is the Truth!” – Schiller 2011.
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/public-radio-decides-its-time-to-chase-trolls-away.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Peter Warner commented:
Vivian Schiller is deluded, perhaps self-deluded. I would bet a month’s income that there is nothing close to a balance in the NPR staff of the number of registered Republicans and registered Democrats. Pick any hot-button (abortion, death penalty, War in Iraq) issue and conduct an honest secret poll within NPR: you will not find anything close to a balance of opinion.
If there isn’t a balance of viewpoints, and if in fact there is a strong dominance on one side of the political/social/cultural issues, there will inherently also be a particular bias. This can’t be avoided. Perhaps there is some effort to present alternative views in a particular broadcast, but the bias is evident in subtle ways: What stories get air time? What stories get ignored? Who is chosen as a spokesman for the alternative view? How are the interview questions framed?
As one of the Left herself, Schiller probably confuses diversity of skin color with diversity of thought. The Left has forgotten that taking account of skin color is racism. Period.
She can’t be serious in claiming that there is ‘no particular bias’ at NPR, and she doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously.
Best regards, Peter Warner.
Mark1957 commented:
Schiller;.. One who schills or spreads propaganda.
Radegunda commented:
Robert #22, recently an ABC report on gasoline prices ended with this bit of editorializing: “But in reality, there’s not much the president can do to affect prices at the pump.”
Oh, really? George W. Bush made prices drop considerably just be announcing that he was lifting certain bans on drilling.
Obama could do the same: start signing those Gulf drilling permits; say we’ll be using our oil in Anwar; announce a plan to pipe in Canadian shale oil; etc. But he won’t, because he has nothing against high gasoline prices. In 2008, he said the only problem was that maybe the price had risen a little too fast.
bg commented:
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no particular bias..
more like specific..
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Patriot Act commented:
“We get a tremendous amount of criticism for being too conservative, as well…”
Wow, that sounds suspiciously like a whopper of a lie. I read a lot and I have never seen anyone criticize NPR for being conservative at all.
Linda commented:
I’m so glad I never gave any money to NPR. Enter this on Youtube and find out why:
NPR Muslim Brotherhood Investigation Part I