New York Post:
They were raising money yesterday at WNYC, the city’s public-radio outlet, when suddenly someone told the truth.
What do listeners get for their donation dollars, asked the on-air pitchman, WNYC reporter and senior producer Collin Campbell.
“We pay for WNYC reporters, like Arun Venugopal, who go after the NYPD . . .”
Say what? Hasn’t the department been catching enough grief lately for doing its best to keep New York safe without the city’s flagship public-radio station adding cop-bashing to its tin-cup repertoire?
Station publicity director Jennifer Houlihan said yesterday that Campbell “used language that we don’t feel is accurate” — though the words slipped so easily off the pitchman’s lips it’s clear that he thought they were spot-on.
Certainly they betray the lefty sensibilities that have long animated public broadcasting — especially its news programming.
Read more: http://patdollard.com/2012/03/npr-producer-admits-partisanship-we-hire-reporters-who-go-after-the-police/
They were raising money yesterday at WNYC, the city’s public-radio outlet, when suddenly someone told the truth.
What do listeners get for their donation dollars, asked the on-air pitchman, WNYC reporter and senior producer Collin Campbell.
“We pay for WNYC reporters, like Arun Venugopal, who go after the NYPD . . .”
Say what? Hasn’t the department been catching enough grief lately for doing its best to keep New York safe without the city’s flagship public-radio station adding cop-bashing to its tin-cup repertoire?
Station publicity director Jennifer Houlihan said yesterday that Campbell “used language that we don’t feel is accurate” — though the words slipped so easily off the pitchman’s lips it’s clear that he thought they were spot-on.
Certainly they betray the lefty sensibilities that have long animated public broadcasting — especially its news programming.
Read more: http://patdollard.com/2012/03/npr-producer-admits-partisanship-we-hire-reporters-who-go-after-the-police/
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