Fox commentator Juan Williams has revised his views about his former employer, NPR, in a way that’s sort of creepy. In addition to saying that NPR is very “elitist” and a “white institution” — supposedly in comparison with Fox — he says in his new book:
“NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn’t’ fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.”
NPR’s not perfect — certainly not in its current state of intimidation by the right wing — but to say that Fox is more open-minded and, well, more liberal that NPR is a difficult case to make. Williams will come back someday.