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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"I'm told by sources that she was forced out," NPR's media correspondent, David Folkenflik, has reported.Way to be on top of the story, David. /s
After seeing a flurry of sentimental retrospectives of various American Communist stooges coming out of PBS the last couple of years, I think everyone at CPB loves Communism.
Oh, the wonderful Jewish co-op Communists of New York in the good old Stalinist days ..... wonderful, wonderful Dalton Trumbo, so civil, so educated, so refined, so Red ..... ah, those wonderful Red lawyers who put together the Tulia, Texas, slapdown ..... wonderful, wonderful Communists everywhere!
AFAIC the US Government can auction the whole thing off on the courthouse steps.
More than a passing resemblance, too, to Rosa Krebs.
She went to college to learn how to be a communist.
We have colleges in this country that teach students how to be communists.
OMG!
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