ADVENTURES IN PRESS FREEDOM - AT 9:07 A.M. ET:  Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.  This is really incredible, from The Politico:

Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said.

Fox's political bias?  Fox's?  Has anyone ever listened to NPR?

According to a source, Liasson was summoned in early October by NPR’s executive editor for news, Dick Meyer, and the network’s supervising senior Washington editor, Ron Elving. The NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox’s programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network.

At a follow-up meeting last month, Liasson reported that she’d seen no significant change in Fox’s programming and planned to continue appearing on the network, the source said.

NPR’s focus on Liasson’s work as a commentator on Fox’s “Special Report” and “Fox News Sunday” came at about the same time as a White House campaign launched in September to delegitimize the network by painting it as an extension of the Republican Party.

COMMENT:  Mara Liasson is an honest, effective contributor to Fox News.  The action by Meyer and Elving strikes me as grossly inappropriate and humiliating.  If NPR wants to discourage its people from appearing on all television outlets, fine.  But singling out Fox appears to be a case of blatant bias, not that NPR has ever been guilty of bias.  I choked on that.

December 7, 2009