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In a follow-up to the recent story here about the Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus an NPR reporter has been fired in response to an unflattering story due to pressure by legislators on the University of Tennessee.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga fired a reporter this week at WUTC, the National Public Radio affiliate, after local lawmakers complained about how she reported on a state transgender bathroom bill.
Jacqui Helbert, 32, reported and produced the story for WUTC, which followed a group of Cleveland High School students as they traveled to the state capital March 7 to meet with Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, and Rep. Kevin Brooks, R-Cleveland, about the legislation.
The story aired on WUTC March 9 and 13, and was posted on the station's website. After it was posted, the lawmakers said Helbert failed to properly identify herself as a reporter during the meetings.
Helbert maintains she acted within journalistic ethics as she reported the story, and she never concealed her intentions or bulky radio equipment. She did not verbally identify herself as a journalist.
"It was glaringly obvious who I was," Helbert said, adding that her NPR press pass hung around her neck while at the capitol.
Helbert said she was wearing headphones and pointing a 22-inch large fuzzy microphone at the lawmakers as they spoke during the meeting.
Archive of the censored story is here.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday March 29 2017, @02:00AM (3 children)
Remember Law #1 of SJW? They Always Lie. Not sometimes lie, not often lie, they always lie. Learn to look for it.
Yes NPR receives little direct money from the government. But it collects money from the member stations who DO get government money. From their own lips:
Federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public. Its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR.
Why do you think they fight like their lives depend on it every time the subject of eliminating CPB comes up? Don't listen to what they say, they always lie. Watch what they DO. They fight like cornered rats while saying that Federal funding is only a small part of their budget. And it is not just the money, it is the semi-official imprimatur of the U.S. Government making them the official voice of the State. Without it a lot of the other trust fund money they depend on might be redirected at competing non-profit radio services. New competitors might even arise.
I say KILL IT WITH FIRE. But at minimum stop making everyone pay for something that only wealthy liberals care about.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:06AM
The only one who has lied in this thread is you.
Nice attempt to justify it though. Do you manage to even fool yourself?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:11AM (1 child)
Yes NPR receives little direct money from the government. But it collects money from the member stations who DO get government money.
By that logic any federal or state contractor is a government agency and any company they spend their money with is also a federal agency.
So, Home Depot, OfficeMax, FedEx, all government agencies!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:16PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves