NPR Exec Who Fired Juan Williams Resigns

COMMENTS (13)

• The best way to comment is to use Juan Williams’ own words:

  “She had an executioner’s knife for anybody who didn’t abide by her way of thinking,” he said. “And I think she represented a very ingrown, incestous culture in that institution that’s not open to not only different ways of thinking, but angry at the fact that I would even talk or be on Fox.”

  This is one of the few liberals willing to speak the truth. Many on the left and the “progressive” movement are intolerant of any point-of-view which differs from their own.

  Comment by AaronSch — Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 12:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• And this why real news doesn’t happen. Conservatives complain with such fire that news organizations duck and give in.

  It doesn’t happen nearly as often from liberal viewers

  Comment by Doug B — Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 12:54pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Firing traitors (people who go on Fox) is not “giving in”.

    Comment by Bruce — Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 4:58pm PST  Reply to this post

• Are they keeping the money George Soros gave them? I don’t remember drama like this at FOX News, it’s happened at NPR, CNN and MSNBC, but not at FOX News. Why is that?

  Comment by Alex — Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 1:01pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Oh, there’s PLENTY of drama at FOX; it’s just that, like the REST of the Republican Party, they like to keep it under cover.
    Let me put it this way: you won’t see Shep Smith and Glenn Beck doing a show together anytime soon…

    Comment by cst — Friday January 7, 2011 @ 6:25am PST  Reply to this post

• Ellen and Vivian are shocked to learn the hard way what W.F. Buckley’s meant when he said:

  “Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.”

  What makes NPR hard to listen to especially near an election is this attitude that their take on some hot button issue is the only valid one possible.

  Comment by DLMudita — Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 1:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• Translation: Please, please don’t cut our funding. Here’s a sacrificial lamb … and fake apology.

  Comment by Bruce — Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 4:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• Its because the on-air help isn’t allowed to mention the Saudi Prince who’s the biggest shareholder of Fox, or how Murdoch’s dependent on selling to the Chinese.

  Also, the other networks you mention are news networks. Fox successfully argued in a court case in Florida that they are not required to tell the truth in their news programming.

  Comment by Henry Weinardt — Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 5:23pm PST  Reply to this post

  • It’s true. But at least the lies on Fox News make more sense than MSNBC’s or CNN’s.

    Comment by True, but then... — Friday January 7, 2011 @ 2:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• “Also, the other networks you mention are news networks. Fox successfully argued in a court case in Florida that they are not required to tell the truth in their news programming.”

  You’re kidding right? You believe that ‘the other networks’ are ‘required to tell the truth’??

  And perhaps occupy some higher moral plane than Fox news?

  Comment by Otiose8 — Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 9:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• Also, the other networks you mention are news networks. Fox successfully argued in a court case in Florida that they are not required to tell the truth in their news programming.

  You have to be the biggest idiot to ever post on this site, and that’s quite an accomplishment!

  Comment by Sanchez — Friday January 7, 2011 @ 7:33am PST  Reply to this post

• I worked for one of NPR’s top affiliates for over 20 years, and we watched as the network emerged from financial chaos in the early Reagan years to eventual stability. Unfortunately, as so often happens in business, success led to ossification. The diversity of what NPR will produce or accept – both in general programming and specific genres – has shrunk to nothing. The Kroc bequest insured that NPR’s self-image as an all-knowing monolith would last forever (or at least as long as Joan’s money held out). Vivian Schiller’s poor handling of the Juan Williams situation had little to do with “liberal bias” or “political correctness” as such, but owed more to the self-righteous internal culture of NPR management. One would have to venture into the Appalachian hollers to find a situation where so much stupidity-from-inbreeding is not only encouraged, but rewarded!

  Comment by Norman — Friday January 7, 2011 @ 8:21am PST  Reply to this post

• I thought it odd that Juan would take the time to point out that NPR shuns people who don’t have Ellen Weiss’ viewpoint. One could say the same about Fox News Channel bias.
  Having worked over ten years for an NPR affiliate, I have to admit that NPR has a pro-homosexual viewpoint — especially on the “Fresh Air” program. Almost every F.A., All Things Considered and Morning Edition program has a story of particular interest to homosexuals. Kinda like the conservative news networks (SRN and USA) which regularly have a story of interest to anti-abortionists. I think CBS and ABC are the last places to find unbiased news.

  Comment by Chris Astle Jr. — Saturday January 15, 2011 @ 12:19pm PST  Reply to this post