MoveOn Joins Campaign Against FNC Getting Helen's Seat; NPR Rejects Campaign

The heated campaign against FNC getting Helen Thomas’s front-row White House seat is escalating.

MoveOn.org has issued a letter to members backing the progressive group CREDO Action’s petition against FNC. Like CREDO, they’re backing NPR for the seat. But now, NPR has released a statement saying they won’t back the effort against FNC that supports NPR getting the seat: “NPR would like to make it clear that we are not involved in any way in the petitions now circulating that encourage the White House Correspondents’ Association to select NPR for the lead White House correspondent seat.”

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