Friday, January 07, 2011

Resolution in NPR/Juan Williams debacle

From Tom Taylor's Radio-Info.com column this morning...

"Juan Williams wasn’t on the clock for NPR when he said (on Fox News) that the sight of airline passengers in Muslim garb made him nervous. But NPR Vivian Schiller justified firing the 10-year senior news analyst because she said the incident was part of a pattern. But it didn’t go down well in the 24-hour cable world, and that induced the NPR board to commission a thorough investigation by the outside law firm of Weil Gotshal & Manges. Now we’ve got the report, and Senior VP for News Ellen Weiss is falling on her sword - she resigns after 28 years there. CEO Schiller keeps the gig she’d had for a bit over one year (coming from NYTimes.com). But she’ll be deprived of her 2010 bonus."

I'm guessing that after going through a bunch of hearings at the new out for blood GOP-controlled Congress, the NPR CEO will wish that she had been fired instead.