Friday, February 13, 2009

NPR: fire Juan Williams and Mara Liasson ASAP

A couple of months ago I wrote to NPR that they ought to drop Juan Williams and Mara Liasson as their correspondents.  Because, I am sick and tired of the stuff that these two mouth off on Faux News.  (yes, every once in a while I intentionally flip the channel to Faux News in order to locate the planet they live on.)  
Well, apparently I was not the only one to complain thus to NPR.  The following news report from Media Matters is heart-warming :-)

In the wake of Juan Williams' latest outburst on Fox News, NPR has asked him to stop identifying himself as an NPR contributor when he appears on Fox.  NPR's Ombudsman concludes her assessment of the situation:

[I]n the end, NPR must decide -- as it apparently already has -- whether giving its listeners the benefit of Williams' voice is worth the cost of annoying some listeners for his work on Fox.

As a result of this latest flap, NPR's Vice President of News, Ellen Weiss, has asked Williams to ask that Fox remove his NPR identification whenever he is on O'Reilly.


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