The Firing of Juan Williams From NPR

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

So if you work for NPR you're never off duty, they own your ass.

That is as it should be. On any job if your after hours activities make you ineffective you should be let go. NPR listeners, of which I am one, want reporters we find credible. If you appear on a Fox entertainment program your credibility with me is gone. That goes for all their reporters. They shouldn't be appearing on the talking head Sunday shows regardless of network either. They are either serious journalists or they are not. It is time for NPR to draw a bright line between journalism and pop entertainment. NPR has a chance to turn this in their favor. Make some good minority hires and acknowledge that their liberal world view does skew their reporting in as much as they always look first for a government role when a problem presents itself and they could gain from this.These problems don't make them Fox though. NPR doesn't invent controversy and manage and build it over days and weeks. They actually report what happens.