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(NPR) Stations Inundated With Complaints About Williams’ Firing
WBUR ^ | 10/21/2010 | Andrew Phelps (@andrewphelps)

Posted on 10/21/2010 3:09:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

WBUR has received more than 30 calls and a slew of e-mails from listeners to complain about the firing of NPR news analyst Juan Williams, and three people have received refunds for their donations.

That number might not sound like a lot, but it is meaningful — rarely do people make good on threats to cancel their support.

Member stations around the country — many of them in the middle of fundraising this week — live on the front lines. We get credit and, in this case, blame for NPR’s decisions. Many listeners don’t understand the distinction between the member station (WBUR) and the network (NPR).

WBUR, of course, played no part in the decision to fire Williams.

NPR has created a special website for member stations with talking points, contact information for media and listener inquiries and a link to NPR’s ethics guidelines.

NPR says it is so inundated with complaints, the NPR.org “Contact Us” page has crashed.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: andrewphelps; boston; cair; democrats; dncmedia; foxnews; islam; jihad; juanwilliams; leftwingradionetwork; liberalmedia; massachusetts; npr; wbur; wot
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To: Responsibility2nd

This is delicious.. Williams(hard left water carrier) at the crux of the lefts nazi-like tactics.. Only thing wrong with it Roger Ailes hired him full time.. NOW I will have to listen to this idiot much more..


41 posted on 10/21/2010 3:50:38 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: hosepipe

The communist fist tightening isn’t going over so well with Americans, eh?


42 posted on 10/21/2010 4:08:21 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ha Ha! I love it. Poor liberals, getting a good dose of their own medicine!


43 posted on 10/21/2010 4:20:32 PM PDT by Left2Right (Starve the Beast!)
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To: jerseyrocks

Yes. Please Pleeeeze, someone ask Zero about this....


44 posted on 10/21/2010 4:20:34 PM PDT by cld51860
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To: Responsibility2nd
and little Juan is crying all the way to the bank...

that said, i wonder if he'll write a tell all now???

45 posted on 10/21/2010 4:22:25 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: stockpirate

“Let the buget cuts begin with NPR!”

I agree!


46 posted on 10/21/2010 4:23:32 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Responsibility2nd

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47 posted on 10/21/2010 4:28:26 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Pit1

“Soros’ millions has entered your veins. I will be contacting the new congress to urge that they stop funding npr.”

Well put.


48 posted on 10/21/2010 4:29:15 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (T minus 12 days to SMACKDOWN - Tea Party like it's 1773! Pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: barbarianbabs

No, Fox News did the right thing hiring Juan. Otherwise, it is just an echo chamber. You need to bounce ideas off of people with different backgrounds, you don’t hide from them.


49 posted on 10/21/2010 4:29:29 PM PDT by WaterBoard
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To: Responsibility2nd

An NPR radio station was what got me into classical music and I’ve been listening to it ever since. I wrote them a nice little letter today explaining my history with them, why I’ll never listen to them again, and why they won’t be seeing a dime from me.

Not that I ever donated in the first place, mind you. I was never THAT far gone.


50 posted on 10/21/2010 4:29:54 PM PDT by 1cewolf (Duty, honor, excellence.)
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To: RobRoy

“Even liberals are getting tired of it.”

Only the tiny portion of RATs that aren’t brainwashed.


51 posted on 10/21/2010 4:30:46 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (T minus 12 days to SMACKDOWN - Tea Party like it's 1773! Pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; dervish; ...
Down by the river, down by the banks of the River Charles...

And for that matter, sometimes good guys don't wear white...
Member stations around the country -- many of them in the middle of fundraising this week -- live on the front lines.

52 posted on 10/21/2010 4:35:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I say de-fund NPR. Then they can hire or fire whomever they would like to.


53 posted on 10/21/2010 4:36:03 PM PDT by liberateUS
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To: Responsibility2nd
D-e-f-u-n-d NPR. This should have been done years ago. We were calling for it during the Bush era.
Why should tax payers pay for a 24/7 pro-extreme leftist infomercial? Let them earn their own keep.
54 posted on 10/21/2010 4:37:15 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: barbarianbabs

“foxnews=joke for hiring juanwilliams”

You do know that Juan Williams has been working for Fox for years and years, right?


55 posted on 10/21/2010 4:44:36 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Responsibility2nd

I see a big, fat, bloated peice of the government that needs a trim down. :)


56 posted on 10/21/2010 5:12:26 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: WaterBoard
AMEN!! The travesty of NPR's firing Juan Williams is that they are engaging in "group think" to the extent that there's too much "group" and not enough "think"!

Juan Williams' voices his opinion on issues--it is what a news analyst does. I don't have to agree with him--and I often DO NOT--but I sure as hell will defend his right to state those opinions, because without such defense what rights will remain for me when I seek to express my opinions.

Of course, ALL my opinions are right since they are based on brilliant logic, scholarly erudition, superior intellect, and the high esteem in which they are held by my own ego!:)

57 posted on 10/21/2010 5:16:34 PM PDT by milagro
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To: Responsibility2nd
The GOP controlled House should make sure NPR and PBS are defunded on Jan 2, 2011.
58 posted on 10/21/2010 5:28:47 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio
The GOP controlled House should make sure NPR and PBS are defunded on Jan 2, 2011.

...and renamed more truthfully: SPR (Soros Public Radio)

59 posted on 10/21/2010 5:30:27 PM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: 1cewolf

WCPE
Member funded only, no government funding. Listen on the web at

http://wcpe.org/index.shtml

They are in Wake Forest NC but also have broadcast affiliates in other locations across the country.


60 posted on 10/21/2010 5:33:01 PM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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