NPR wants their name taken off program on Chuy that was critical of Rahm. | Fred Klonsky

NPR wants their name taken off program on Chuy that was critical of Rahm. | Fred Klonsky:

NPR wants their name taken off program on Chuy that was critical of Rahm.

 NPR has a sliding scale when it comes to their journalistic standards.

For example, it was only after investigative reporter David Sirota exposed the fact that the Laura and John Arnold Foundation was funding a series critical of public employee pensions were they forced to return Arnold’s $3.5 million. Arnold is a major critic of public pensions.

But their claim of journalistic standards caused them to remove their name, pulled their branding, from an episode of Latino USA about Chicago’s mayoral race.

It aired last week.

The program criticized Rahm as “caring only about millionaires and billionaires.”

The note from NPR producers included this:

“Chuy and the battle for Chicago,” the April 3, 2015, episode produced byLatino USA, does not meet NPR’s editorial standards. NPR distributes Latino USA to more than 130 stations, and did not have an opportunity to review the program prior to distribution.

In the episode, his opponent and other critics make some serious charges about Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the way he has governed the city. There are mentions of “financial mismanagement,” that he cares only about NPR wants their name taken off program on Chuy that was critical of Rahm. | Fred Klonsky: