NPR REPORTERS “APPALLED” AT COMMENTS BY FORMER EXEC

NPR journalists have signed an open letter distancing themselves from the remarks made by the public radio network’s former executive Ron Schiller during a hidden-camera sting operation conducted by conservative activist James O’Keefe. The journalists, all of them familiar to listeners of Morning Edition and All Things Considered, said in the letter that they were […]

PBS WAS ALSO TARGET OF CONSERVATIVE STING: NYTIMES

NPR was not the only target of James O’Keefe, the conservative activist who secretly taped NPR fund-raising official Ron Schiller bashing the Tea Party as “racist, racist people.” The New York Times reported today (Thursday) that officials of PBS also were tricked into meeting with O’Keefe’s sidekicks who were posing as members of a group […]

STING BRINGS DOWN NPR HEAD

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned today (Wednesdy), one day after a secretly recorded video of the president of NPR came to light in which he attacked Tea Party conservatives as “gun-toting … scary … racist people.” The hidden-camera footage was taken by conservative activist James O’Keefe, whose similar sting of the political-action group ACORN effectively […]

FILMMAKER’S CNN STING BACKFIRES

Conservative commentators and Fox News are distancing themselves from James O’Keefe, the filmmaking activist behind the now infamous and discredited ACORN tapes, who allegedly tried to trick CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau into boarding a boat filled with sex toys, try to seduce her, tape the entire scene, edit it, and then submit it to a […]