What do you all think of this? I think he got the shaft & would have a pretty good case for Wrongful Termination.
but in the end, I think he's better off because he looks like a hero & Fox will probably hire him.

I have heard nothing of it.

Fox has already given him more work. I believe he is going to be hosting O'Reilly's show on Fridays. Brilliant move by Fox, because it actually gives a bit of legitimacy to their "fair and balanced" slogan.

This was a total bitch move by NPR. I'd be willing to bet the decision was made by a single person, one of their top people, and Juan had no chance.

Do I agree with his views? 98.2% of the time, no. But the dude holds his ground, even when surrounded by republicans on a Fox round table discussion.

I think he'll survive. Fox has already signed him to a 2 Million dollar contract. He be a'ight.

It was absolute garbage. Gonna cost NPR some future funding all in the good name of a balanced budget and govt spending cuts. Them people's are arrogant if they think there wont be reprocussions.

It was his recent comments critical of Muslims that cost him his job at NPR. No great loss for the guy; Fox offered him a job immediately and public opinion is largely on his side.

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Just another example of liberal tolerance and advocacy for free speech.

None of this has anything at all to do with the First Amendment.

Seems like there is a serious back-story that hasn't fully been leaked yet. Here is one Wikipedia one explanation:

"According to NPR, the remarks were "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."[8] As to the reason for the termination of Williams' contract, NPR’s CEO Vivian Schiller offered the following comment, "News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts".

I was about his feelings, not his opinion. His opinion was actually counter his feelings the way I heard it.

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Rfenst, what this is about is the far left leaders of NPR stifling free speech of anyone employee that does not agree with them. Williams asked what journalistic standard he broke and they had no answer. He did not express a policy opinion, just a personal feeling. He has been on Fox for years, and only this non-PC opinion got him fired. The hypocrisy is that another NPR correspondent, Nina Totenberg, once said on their air that she hoped Jessie Helms got AIDS...she is still their legal affairs correspodent. So, it is transparent far left political bias at work. Williams himself said he thought the left was the bastion of free speech, and that he learned the hard way that, at least in this case, they are not.

Poor Juan, he thought he was one of the liberal cool crowd, and then discovered what happens when you stray from the cool crowd's dictates. Liberals are notorious for not having a lot of compassion for people who stray from the plantation.

He got what he deserved. He can cound himself fortunate that Fox was waiting in the wings.

He can also count his blessings that he wasn't near a tree when the NPR people came calling. Otherwise he might have found himself being lynched. White elitist liberals don't like it when people with darker skin tones start thinking for themselves...

Yes, like the news analyst that still works at NPR who publically came out and hoped Jesse Helms and his family got HIV.

Your "swallowing a camel whole" trick is rather amazing to watch...

I read a little more of this story yesterday. Apparently Juan has had his peter slapped before about things he's said on Fox. I *GUESS* I can see NPR's point in a way...they don't want their people becoming pundits or cable news talking heads. But if that's really the case, they should forbid their people from participating in "round table" discussions and the like. My guess is Juan pissed off the wrong suit at NPR and he had a target on his back. Whatever the case, this was a dumb move by NPR. Gives Fox more credibility while diminishing theirs.


"According to NPR, the remarks were "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."[8] As to the reason for the termination of Williams' contract, NPR’s CEO Vivian Schiller offered the following comment, "News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts".


Huh? Like I said, if that's the case then they should not allow their news analysts to participate in round table discussions, where people take personal public positions on controversial issues!!!!!!!!

Two words: Tavis Smiley.

Or how about, "Cokie Roberts?"

Yep. She's NEVER had an opinion while being a news "analyst" for NPR.

Here is the reasone he was fired according to NPR CEO Vivian Schille: "News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts". I do not know if that is part of the exact language of his employment contract ori it is e end of the day the guy got fired from his simply a known journalistic standard. We do not know if there were any other reasons. At the end of the day, the guy got fired by one of his employers. Big deal. I they were out of line for doing it, then they will owe him compensation.

NPR's justification is utter BS, and probably one of the stupidest ever given (which isn't surprising as it is dominated by leftist liberals). The whole point of a news analyst is to take news of current events, and provide an O-P-I-N-I-O-N for the purpose of providing either context or clarification. An OPINION is little more than a personal position based on the evidence. A "correspondent" is supposed to relay the unabridged and unadulterated facts from the event to the general public. Therein lies their difference.

And as we all know, there is no such thing as news that doesn't highlight controversy. Nope. Never happened until now.

The whole news "analysis" thing is done by Olbermann, Madow, Matthews, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and so on. Juan was hired as a news analyst at NPR (according to Schiller's very own frickin' words), not a correspondent. As per usual, the lefty liberals at NPR either have their head up their a**, or are trying to re-define words so as to appear as if they don't have their head up their a**, when they actually do.

Either way, everyone at NPR walks around with their head up their a**. Which is nothing new for leftists liberals. And to think they get paid good money to be a bunch of dumba**es.

So what.
At the end of the day, he got fired.
WGAF...

Williams: NPR was looking for reason to fire him (AP)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101022/ap_en_ot/us_npr_analyst_fired 


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