NPR Defends Firing Williams as Criticism Mounts

New York Times ^ | October 23, 2010 | By BRIAN STELTER and ELIZABETH JENSEN

[JohnHuang2]

Of the thousands of complaints that have saturated NPR in the wake of Juan Williams’s firing earlier this week, some of the most telling have been from callers describing themselves as long-time “viewers” of NPR who warn that they are going to “stop watching.”

NPR, of course, does not have viewers, it has listeners. But the public radio organization has come under severe criticism — largely from people who are not listeners, it believes — for having fired Mr. Williams, an analyst who was employed by both NPR and Fox News when he said on Fox that he felt fearful when he saw people in “Muslim garb” on an airplane.

[Inwoodian]

PBS gives between a quarter and a half million dollars? What’s up with that? PBS is forever crying with its hand out. If they didn’t donate such princely sums to a fellow leftist cabal maybe we’d be spared another Pledge Week.

[rhema]

[arasina]

The resemblance in ideology frequently creates a likeness of physical appearance.

[combat_boots]

Steyn says NPR is “National Peace-be-upon-him Radio”

[JoanneSD]

I remember when Obama was campaigning, he told about his white grandmother, when she would be walking and came across some black people she would be intimidated and cross the street, or some such story.. but for Juan to say he was intimidated by muslims is some how wrong..