Juan Williams fired from NPR

[LuciferSam]

Please name me the shows and pundits on NPR that regularly express political bias. I mean, really. As an informed listener, I really want to know.

I don't consider NPR to be liberal, but they are definitely non-conservative. So how does one define conservatism? Philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris in his book "The Moral Landscape" states:

"The psychologist John Jost and colleagues analyzed data from twelve countries, acquired from 23,000 subjects, and found this attitude [conservatism] to be correlated with dogmatism, inflexibility, death anxiety, need for closure, and anticorrelated with openness to experience, cognitive complexity, self-esteem, and social stability"
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I think I can state definitively that such description does not apply to NPR.

 

[Lake View Too]

I don't consider NPR to be liberal, but they are definitely non-conservative. So how does one define conservatism? Philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris in his book "The Moral Landscape" states:

"The psychologist John Jost and colleagues analyzed data from twelve countries, acquired from 23,000 subjects, and found this attitude [conservatism] to be correlated with dogmatism, inflexibility, death anxiety, need for closure, and anticorrelated with openness to experience, cognitive complexity, self-esteem, and social stability"
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I think I can state definitively that such description does not apply to NPR.

I know a certain Shopper who ain't gonna like this.

 

[LuciferSam]

I know a certain Shopper who ain't gonna like this.

Just wait till you tell him our differences are due to activity in different brain regions, and you can't change it (my opinion )

 

[Lake View Too]

Just wait till you tell him our differences are due to activity in different brain regions, and you can't change it (my opinion )

Talking about "brain activity" with a conservative is probably a bit like talking about sex activity with a monk...

(I couldn't help it.)

 

[LuciferSam]

Talking about "brain activity" with a conservative is probably a bit like talking about sex activity with a monk...

(I couldn't help it.)

It's true because with conservatives it's a body/soul thing. They don't believe in the brain as an actual body part.

 

[AndrewG]

Arrogance is not a desirable thing. When you crash you crash really hard.

 

[Matt J]

Arrogance is not a desirable thing. When you crash you crash really hard.

Yeah, but you can always blame it on the other party that had power before you.

 

[Jdarg]

I have no idea why he got fired. the article I gave was an opinion which I found interesting (from another African American working at NPR), but certainly not definitive. Your link truly says nothing about the reason for the firing.

Sometimes a person just needs firing. Sometimes its not a popular thing to do. I don't know if it was the right decision by NPR, but I would bet there are many reasons behind it.

And it is still the most diverse, interesting, and credible media source out there, which is why our fund drive check will go in the mail this morning.

 

[Rita]

I have no idea why he got fired. the article I gave was an opinion which I found interesting (from another African American working at NPR), but certainly not definitive. Your link truly says nothing about the reason for the firing.

Sometimes a person just needs firing. Sometimes its not a popular thing to do. I don't know if it was the right decision by NPR, but I would bet there are many reasons behind it.

Bingo!

And it is still the most diverse, interesting, and credible media source out there, which is why our fund drive check will go in the mail this morning.

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We listened to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" on our 45 min. drive to the Dallas Arboretum yesterday and both remarked how that made the drive so much nicer, having something so entertaining to listen to. There have been many times I've sat in the driveway to finish the end of Diane Rehm Show or Car Talk. Their list of programming is stellar imo.

Thanks Jenny for spurring me to open the checkbook AGAIN!


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[GoodWitch58]

Bingo!



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We listened to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" on our 45 min. drive to the Dallas Arboretum yesterday and both remarked how that made the drive so much nicer, having something so entertaining to listen to. There have been many times I've sat in the driveway to finish the end of Diane Rehm Show or Car Talk. Their list of programming is stellar imo.

Thanks Jenny for spurring me to open the checkbook AGAIN!


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Yeah, me too. Rita, NPR has a whole CD Collection of Driveway Moments...or something like that. I got it for my son a few years ago for Christmas. It was for all those stories you had to sit in the driveway and listen to the end...great gift. I often wish I had one of those devices that would record the radio. the same way I record television programs...it's so frustrating to arrive at my destination and have to get out of the car for an appointment before the program ends.http://shop.npr.org/index.php?p=catalog&mode=search&search_in=all&search_str=driveway&x=14&y=4