Give the Seat to NPR

will decide Sunday.

Should the front row center seat in the White HOuse press briefing room to to FOX News or to NPR?

Amazing. In just 36 hours, 185,000 CREDO Action members joined  our campaign to block FOX News from taking over the White House  press briefing room seat recently vacated by Helen Thomas. Time is running out. Last night we sent the first round of signatures  via overnight delivery to the officers of the White House  Correspondents Association board, including journalists from the  New York Times, Reuters, C-Span, and USA Today, and later today  we will hand deliver boxes of signatures to the president of the board. Amazing. In just 36 hours, 185,000 CREDO Action members joined  our campaign to block FOX News from taking over the White  House press briefing room seat recently vacated by Helen Thomas. The WHCA board will decide Sunday who will get the seat. We will  continue to update them as signatures pour in with another round of  signatures to be delivered on Saturday, but we need your help to  build on our momentum and take the pressure up a notch. Tell the White House Correspondents Association: Give the  best seat in the briefing room to NPR, not FOX! Click here to automatically add your name to the petition. The organizations most actively vying for the seat are FOX, NPR  and Bloomberg News. But FOX News is a right-wing propaganda outlet, not a legitimate  news agency. In recent weeks the network has turned the volume up on its  race-baiting political agenda. The media assault on Shirley  Sherrod is just the latest in a series of racist and politically  motivated attacks on targets like Van Jones, ACORN, and  Eric Holder's Department of Justice. It's bad enough that we have to fight the constant smear  campaigns and appeals to racial paranoia from FOX and  the right-wing media. We can't let them have the best seat  in the White House press briefing room and the legitimacy  that it confers. NPR has had a full time White House correspondent since the  1970s. The public radio network regularly reaches 27 million  listeners with its news programming. The Board of the White House Correspondents Association  will make its final decision during its upcoming board  meeting which has now been rescheduled one day earlier  to Sunday, August 1. So it's urgent that we take action on  behalf of NPR now. Click here to automatically sign the petition. Tell the White  House Correspondents Association: NPR deserves to be  in the front row, FOX does not. Thank you for working for a better world. Becky Bond, Political Director CREDO Action from Working Assets For more information: NPR's letter to the White House Correspondents  Association, July 14, 2010. NPR now vying for front-row White House seat, Yahoo News,  July 19, 2010. Why is the Obama administration listening to right-wing  smear merchants?, CREDO Action, July 29, 2010.