We read:
"NPR Executive Ellen Weiss, the woman responsible for firing Juan Williams after he made comments on Fox News about being uncomfortable around people dressed in Muslim garb on airplanes, is stepping down from her position after an NPR review of the Williams firing was conducted.
The move also comes just one day after the new Republican Congress gained power. Members of the new House GOP leadership have stated publicly that defunding NPR is at the top of the spending cuts list.
From FoxNews:
Ellen Weiss resigned as senior vice president for news on the same day that NPR's board of directors completed its independent review of the dismissal of Williams. The directors recommended new internal procedures for personnel decisions and disciplinary action.
Williams, who is a Fox News contributor, cheered the announcement. "It's good news for NPR if they can get someone who is the keeper of the flame of liberal orthodoxy out of NPR," he told Fox News.
"She had an executioner's knife for anybody who didn't abide by her way of thinking," he said.
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Personally, I think that ALL government media channels should be defunded.
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This probably just means she'll land a post in the Obama admin.
/You think I'm kidding, but I'm not!
No, i don't think you're kidding. But don't look for her in the administration. You'll find her in Obummers 2012 campaign organization.
Personally, I think that ALL government media channels should be defunded.
I agree.
The interesting thing about this story to me is the spin or bias from Fox News. It is just as bad as the main stream media who failed to cover the story of Williams' firing.
In this case, Fox says the woman resigned, after an independent review of the Williams' dismissal. What Fox failed to note was that the review found that the firing was justified and legal.
The review found that the disciplinary procedures were inconsistent, but within the law.
I think that Fox's spin on this was more to promote Williams, who now works for them, than to totally report what happened.
This is just another example of how no news source can ever be trusted totally. They all put a spin on events.
They are all corrupt to an extent. How corrupt and which way they lean is a matter for people to discover themselves.
Boycott Faux News.
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