NPR CEO “regrets” her handling of firing of Juan Williams

As well she should. There was an excellent discussion this morning on NPR’s own “On Point’, one of the decent shows that keeps me listening. The NPR Ombudsman was clueless, naturally, but the other panelists were not and the moderator was great. But big point: the firing came during the middle of many local affiliates’ fundraising drive, and the poor volunteers manning the phones were taking heaps of abuse. NPR national has poo pooed callers claims that they were actually donors to begin with but I know that I was one who has now vowed never again to support them and I notice that the local Connecticut station, WNPR, has had to extend its own fund drive after failing to reach its goal. So maybe I wasn’t the only caller who represented permanently lost revenue. Good.

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