Garrison Keillor will host fundraiser for Obama
What are your feelings on this? If it was your station, would you allow one of your hosts to take a political stand, or would you prefer they stay neutral. FCC guidelines do not allow public radio stations to advocate on issues of public interest. Garrison Keillor is not advocating on the air. The fundraiser is something he doing as a private citizen. But, others in the media (and public media) have been let go because they advocated as a private citizen. Should the same rules apply here?
I think he should be able to support who he wants. I understand journalistic integrity but many in the public believe that reporters come with some type of political bias, both on the left, the right or otherwise. Watching MS-NBC it is very clear that Chris Matthews supports Obama and on fox Sean Hannity does not.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, Garrison Keillor is not a journalist, he is storyteller or commentator. His role is outside of the journalistic realm and as such he should not be covered by those strict rules.
Finally, he is not using the public airwaves for his advocacy where balance may be required, this is his private home. He is good to go in my book.