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Defend America on Monday, December 07, 2009 5:05:51 PM
NPR reporter pressured over Fox role
By
JOSH GERSTEIN |
12/6/09 10:36 PM EST
Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top
political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular
appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s
political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said.
According to a source, Liasson was summoned in early October by NPR’s
executive editor for news, Dic- Meyer, and the network’s supervising
senior Washington editor,-Ron Elving. The NPR executives said they had
concerns that Fox’s programming had grown more partisan, and they asked
Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network.
At a follow-up meeting last month, Liasson reported that she’d seen no
significant change in Fox’s programming and planned to continue
appearing on the network, the source said.
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