Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Both Sides Of His Mouth II

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Below I suggested that Juan Williams latest remarks on FOX were just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back and that he had a habit of talking out of both sides of his mouth.  It would appear I may have been right on both counts.



Dana Davis Rehm, NPR�s senior vice president for communications, said in an interview that Williams� comments violated internal ethics policies that prohibit NPR journalists from going on other media and expressing �views they would not air in their role as an NPR journalist.� The guidelines also prohibit NPR journalists from participating in programs �that encourage punditry and speculation rather than fact-based analysis.�


Rehm said Williams had been warned several times in the past about making personal comments that violated the policy.


�This wasn�t the first time where we felt Juan crossed the line in terms of what�s permitted for NPR analysts and journalists as a whole,� she said. �We felt we really didn�t have an alternative. And it was not without regret, and it was not a decision that was made lightly by any means. We do appreciate the work he has done.�



It would appear that simply going on a show like Hannity or O'Riley violated NPR guidelines and he had been warned on numerous occasions.  But don't cry for Juan, he got what he wanted:



Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes handed Williams a new three-year contract Thursday morning, in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, a considerable bump up from his previous salary, the Tribune Washington Bureau has learned. The Fox News contributor will now appear exclusively and more frequently on the cable news network and have a regular column on FoxNews.com.



NPR had been under a lot of pressure to dump Williams from it's listeners and that's where most of their money comes from. 



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