Host fired from NPR show for role in "Occupy DC"

[TomCADem]

Source: CBS News

A freelance radio host was fired from a documentary program that airs on NPR affiliates after she became a spokeswoman for a Washington protest because her producers believed she violated the public radio network's code of ethics, the host said Thursday.

Lisa Simeone said she was fired the previous evening from "Soundprint," a music documentary show that isn't produced by NPR but is aired by its affiliates across the country. She said the head of Soundprint Media Center Inc., which produces the show, read NPR's code of ethics to her before she was fired.

NPR also questioned Simeone's involvement in the "Occupy D.C." protest and said its ethics code applies to the shows it carries. But NPR said Simeone doesn't work for the radio network, and it hadn't pressured Soundprint to fire her.

Simeone also hosts "World of Opera," a show produced by North Carolina-based music and arts station WDAV. That program is distributed by NPR. She said that station is supporting her so far.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/20/national/main20123277.shtml

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Amazing the corporate media bias and the double standards masquarading as journalism today. Pretty much every employee at Fox News should get fired according to the standards applied to journalists with liberal leanings.

[jaybeat]

1. NPR had to find a liberal Juan Williams

To bad she didn't even fucking WORK for them, and her show was a freaking MUSIC show. She said herself, "I don't cover the news!"

But they're hoping this will keep their corporate funders placated.

Shills and water carriers.

[laconicsax]

2. She also hosts the weekly Chicago Symphony broadcast.

[99th_Monkey]

3. I thought the 1% wanted OWS protestere to "get jobs"??? WTF? nt

[Festivito]

4. If she attended a party supported by the 1% as thanks for the spin, she'd be okay I guess.

For being in a group demonstrating their love of country, NPR makes a press release nervously disavowing itself of her activities and then claims it never pressured anyone to have her fired.

[Leopolds Ghost]

5. They also killed "World of Opera" and stopped syndicating it -- to punish her.

NPR -- the opiate of liberalism. Kill it with fire. Replace it with something better.