Would you feel differently about NPRs handling of Lisa Simeone if she'd been at a Tea Party rally?

[OmahaBlueDog]

There is no right or wrong answer, and this is not graded.

[qb]

1. Yes, because NPR would probably have done a puff-piece interview with her

instead of trying to get her fired.

[alp227]

2. given her job doesn't involve objective political reporting there was no good reason to fire her nt

[MADem]

3. Context for the obtuse to this topic

Ah....found some:

This comes days after news broke that Lisa Simeone, the program's freelance host, was acting as a spokeswoman for protesters affiliated with "October 2011," a group of activists camping out in the city's Freedom Plaza to protest against war and corporate greed. The protests in Washington, D.C. are an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Dana Davis Rehm, senior vice president for communications for NPR, said the decision to change the arrangement came "from different views about the role of a program host." She said NPR believes hosts "represent NPR regardless of the type of program they host." As such, they are barred from any political activity.

Updated at 9:19 p.m. ET: Simeone called the move an "overreaction" on NPR's part. She added that she did not think the new arrangement would have any adverse effect on the show. "It'll continue having operas from all over the world," she said.

As NPR's David Folkenflik reported, yesterday, Simeone was let go as host of Soundprint, a documentary program that is independently produced for public radio stations, but WDAV decided she would keep her job as host of World of Opera. The station, which focuses on arts and cultural programming, said that "Ms. Simeone's activities outside of this job are not in violation of any of WDAV's employee codes and have had no effect on her job performance at WDAV."

Scott Nolan, WDAV's general manager, did not immediately respond to our request for comment.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/10/21/141603820/npr-world-of-opera-split-over-hosts-role-in-protests

[fasttense]

4. But that would NEVER happen.

Yes, I would feel better if I had millions of dollars but that is never going to happen either so why bother pretending.

As I recall, NPR and their reporters were busy promoting the Teabaggers (That's their real name. They originally called themselves teabaggers and I'll go along with their initial description of themselves. You can't re-brand yourself and expect people to believe you are any different.) Even before any Teabagger rallies took place, NPR reported their protest plans as if they were reading out of the bible. Their excuse was that the Teabaggers were a grassroots movement but of course they were merely the most ignorant fools the Koch brothers could pay off.

I heard NOT one word about the planned rallies for occupy Wall Street and Washington out of NPR. Only after weeks of protests did the NPR even bother to report on the events. Unlike the numerous planned rallies for Teabaggers which were frequently reported on weeks before they took place to ensure maximum attendance.

Seems several of their reporters even visit the hell of RepubliCON news world FOX as regular commentators on the RepubliCON propaganda channel.

No, NPR wouldn't even have noticed if one of their subcontractors attended a Teabagger rally. It's like asking a duck to complain about water. Let's not even pretend it would happened.

[Quantess]

5. Excellent response!

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Hosting a performance of "Tristan und Isolde" has nothing to do with "Occupy".

Nor would it were it a Tea Party event.

So, no, she should have kept her position and the program remained on NPR.

[trumad]

7. Exfrickingactly...

And there lies the rub.

The Rude Pundit was all over this:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2011/10/few-bits-of-advice-for-national-public.html

[panzerfaust]

8. No: But, I liked NPR B4 it was "Nationally Promoting Republicanism"