{"id":260,"date":"2011-07-21T20:28:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=260"},"modified":"2011-07-21T20:28:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:28:58","slug":"stockholm-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm syndrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox commentator Juan Williams has revised his views about his former employer, NPR, in a way that&#8217;s sort of creepy.\u00a0 In addition to saying that NPR is very &#8220;elitist&#8221; and a &#8220;white institution&#8221; &#8212; supposedly in comparison with Fox &#8212; he says in his new book:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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\u2019t\u2019 fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NPR&#8217;s not perfect &#8212; certainly not in its current state of intimidation by the right wing &#8212; but to say that Fox is more open-minded and, well, more liberal that NPR is a difficult case to make.\u00a0 Williams will come back someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox commentator Juan Williams has revised his views about his former employer, NPR, in a way that&#8217;s sort of creepy.\u00a0 In addition to saying that NPR is very &#8220;elitist&#8221; and a &#8220;white institution&#8221; &#8212; supposedly in comparison with Fox &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=260\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}