In enters Soros who recently donated a boatload to NPR and a million to Media Matters. Apparently there is a Soros and Beck (sic) battles raging over the meaning of the donations. Beck accusing NPR of a Soros agenda.
What I don't get is this odd recoiling from FOX News. FOX is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. We get it, everybody gets it. Why the posturing in defense of some notion of fairness? Ridiculous, let's get this nonsense behind us. FOX is what it is. Its the partisan make believe news.
It would be interesting to know the demographics of the people barraging NPR with calls to rehire Juan. What are their politics, race, age group, etc etc.
CS Monitor: NPR vs. Fox News: Juan Williams firing reveals deeper media fight
Mr. Soros recently donated $1.8 million to NPR, seen by conservative critics (and certainly by Mr. Beck) as proof (a) that NPR is a liberal mouthpiece and (b) that billionaire Soros pressured NPR to get rid of Williams.
“They want NPR to hire him back immediately. If NPR doesn't, they want all public funding of public radio to stop...."
Soros also recently gave $1 million to Media Matters “to hold Fox News accountable for the false and misleading information they so often broadcast.”
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I wonder if FOX does in fact get any government subsidy. It might not and it probably doesn't, but imagine if they did. I wonder where you find that out.
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