Oh well who needs Opera on NPR?

    By Flavius on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 3:48pm |

     Eric Alterman the Nov 14th Nation

     

    " Lisa Simeone was..the host of Soundprint, ....produced  independently ...and World of Opera,produced by SDAV, a classical-music ...station-both of which aired nationally  on NPR stations. Simeone is not a network employee but when NPR....discovered ..Simeone ...was part of the steering comittee for a protest group similar to Occupy ,,,,,,Simeone [was] fired.  ....World of Opera-who...refused to fire her got booted off NPR's schedule." .............................Mara Liaason is a paid pundit for Fox's news channel

    And if Lisa were, maybe that would have protected  her right to free speech. That or if she incorporated herself and invoked Citizens' United.

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    In case you wondered whether  "On the Media" covered this, it did. And also covered WNYC's firing of  an employee-Caitlan Curran-  for supporting the NYC  OWS.

    On the On the Media Home Page you can listen to last week's On the Media interview with Curran and can read the discussion between Brooke Gladstone and others about NPR's bizarre decision to cancel an opera program because it involved someone who in her private life supports a movement which can be categorized as political.  ( In her interview Curran argued that it is not clear that OWS should be considered as leftist)


    by Flavius on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 11:21am

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