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Vivian Schiller Leaves NPR (Looking back at her tenure as a liberal media titan)
National Review ^ | March 9, 2011 | BRIAN BOLDUC

Posted on 03/09/2011 10:29:37 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

...Vivian Schiller resigned as chief executive officer of National Public Radio. “I’m told by sources that she was forced out,” NPR’s media correspondent, David Folkenflik, has reported. Her sudden departure marks an abrupt end to a long-winding climb up the corporate ladder.

In 1983, Schiller graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in Russian and Soviet Studies. Two years later, she earned a master’s degree in Russian at Middlebury College. Her first journalism gig was translating Russian in the former Soviet Union for Turner Broadcasting. For ten years, she served as Turner’s vice president of development, producing many award-winning documentaries, such as Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream.

The climb continued: Between 1998 and 2002, she served as executive vice president of CNN Productions, where she helped launch People in the News and CNN Presents. Afterward, she worked as senior vice president and general manager at the Discovery Times Channel for four years. From May 2006 to December 2008, Schiller was senior vice president and general manager of the New York Times’ website. Finally, in January 2009, Schiller took the helm at NPR.

Once she sat atop the corporate pyramid, however, Schiller began to feel tremors below. Last October, she bungled NPR’s firing of longtime analyst Juan Williams. The Fox News contributor got the boot after he admitted on The O’Reilly Factor, “When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they’re identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

Although many observers viewed NPR’s actions askance — how exactly did Williams’s comment compromise his analysis? — Schiller ridiculed his protests, saying that he should have kept his misgivings about Muslims between himself and “his psychiatrist or his publicist.”...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jamesokeefe; journalists; liberalmedia; npr; okeefe; schiller; teaparty
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; abb; weegee
Ликование!

(Schadenfreude)


21 posted on 03/09/2011 11:00:26 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Not surprisingly, Yahoo! offered a considerably more flattering picture of Schiller. I saw the Yahoo! pic first and thought, "Hey, here's at least one liberal woman who isn't a *complete* train wreck."

But no, the pic on NRO is much more as I expected... looking tired, unhealthy, and miserable. She happens to be wearing the same necklace in both photos, or else I would not be sure I was looking at the same individual...


22 posted on 03/09/2011 11:06:36 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Car Talk has some good content, and it's leftist “peak oil” opinion will become just that when they need advertising revenue. You will see “petro efficiency” subjects in performance reviews.
23 posted on 03/09/2011 11:09:40 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: Sicon

LOL.

Thanks.


24 posted on 03/09/2011 11:10:48 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: martin_fierro
Raoul's First Law of Journalism
BIAS = LAYOFFS

Raoul's Second Law of Journalism
SEE FIRST LAW

25 posted on 03/09/2011 11:11:07 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Navy Patriot

Taken all together, I’d rather not support any of their sponsors.


26 posted on 03/09/2011 11:12:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: martin_fierro

Just so she knows!!

LOL!


27 posted on 03/09/2011 11:14:36 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Taken all together, I’d rather not support any of their sponsors.

Which is your absolute right, and with defunding, you won't be required to (except GM), free market capitalism is grand.

28 posted on 03/09/2011 11:16:38 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: scooby321

Definitely no Revlon endorsements in her future.


29 posted on 03/09/2011 11:18:55 AM PST by WePledge (Semper Fidelis)
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To: tina07

I applaud Mr. O’Keefe for his outstanding effort, he is a true patriot.
Like Acorn these Schiller subversives are far from defeated.
They are expert in establishing non profit organizations and will set up shop under a new name, engorging themselves at the tax payer trough once again!

Acorn did not go away. Right now their operatives along with the White House are setting up recall efforts against Wisconsin Republican Senators.

The fact that Vivian Schiller resigned from National Palestinian Radio (Oh really? That’s good! I like that! “ Betsy LIley ) is an indication that the next video from Mr. O’Keefe is going to be a whopper!
Get your popcorn ready.

The point is they will establish or blend seamlessly into another anti-American organization. Stay vigilant!

VOTE PALIN/WEST AND CRUSH THE LEFT !


30 posted on 03/09/2011 11:20:51 AM PST by TsonicTsunami08
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To: Navy Patriot

Bump!


31 posted on 03/09/2011 11:28:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I’ll admit it. I hate these people. We are not of the same people. We are not of the same nation. I want them all gone and gone for good. I want to live in a world where I am not forced to look at their filthy lying faces. I want them gone, and I want my country back!


32 posted on 03/09/2011 11:30:58 AM PST by The Toll
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To: The Toll
..I want my country back!

Bump!

33 posted on 03/09/2011 11:35:02 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Karma is a Bxxxh
34 posted on 03/09/2011 1:36:26 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The arrogant, condescending way she address Juan Williams' firing caused me no shortage of agita. Good riddance to her.
35 posted on 03/09/2011 1:42:49 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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address = addressed


36 posted on 03/09/2011 1:45:10 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

That’s their style— backstabbing, arrogant, condescending, superior, smug, vindictive and hateful.

What awful people.


37 posted on 03/09/2011 2:01:09 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Shiller is just the tip of the iceberg of liberal bias at NPR. The directors and trustees lurking in the depths will just replace her with a Marxist clone. Here’s a link to NPR Governance:
http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/people/board.html

DEFUND NPR NOW!


38 posted on 03/09/2011 2:47:34 PM PST by CamofCTUSA (Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.)
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To: CamofCTUSA

Bump!!


39 posted on 03/09/2011 2:55:43 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: TsonicTsunami08

Love that ticket PALIN/WEST!!! Wonder what Jan Brewer and Sarah were discussing when Jan vacationed in Alaska recently, might still be there!

Yes, I knew Acorn just broke up into other groups. The corruption and fraud is outrageous, let alone that satanic disciple Van Jones.

Looking forward to ZerO’s landslide loss in 2012!

CAN YOU AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS????


40 posted on 03/09/2011 4:11:47 PM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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