I have to question NPR in this Juan Williams issue

[subsuelo]

The question for me is- How the hell did they let in that bigoted jerk in the first place?

Seriously- what we need to challenge is the bigoted environment so pervasive in the mainstream media today. Of course he deserved to be sacked, but I think that anyone with half a functioning brain (who isn't racist) should question how that asshat lasted as long as he did as part of NPR's organization.

Who else do they have on staff that spends their time amongst colleagues making racist or bigoted jokes and comments? As if Williams is the only one. He just got canned cause he slipped up and said it on the air. Now he is forced to defend his bigoted remarks.

I don't watch any msm myself anymore. None, zero, nada. And fwiw just because NPR in this instance did the right thing by letting Williams go, isn't going to have me suddenly tuning in now and sending my support. It's just one tiny step in the right direction, dwarfed in comparison to their overall shitty programming.

Give me my democracy now, znet, Real News Network, Young Turks, (and plenty of other non-mainstream programming) to really find out what is going on in the world.

NPR will still remain off for me, along with the rest of the cowards, bigots and charlatans in the mainstream news channels. I get the impression that more people feel this way these days, but that could be just wishful thinking. The rest of you may resume your brainwashings...

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. He was sort of this middle of the road nobody that knew not to ask

any follow-up questions or be controversial. In other words, the classic NPR show host. One of his greatest
failures was his interview with Dick Cheney where he let Dick go on and on about how Iraq had, in fact, reconstituted their Nuclear Bomb making facilities, this long after the invasion & subsequent lack of any evidence of any of it.

[subsuelo]

2. I guess he found a way to be controversial ...

That is, to publicly express his bigotry, then cry about it when an employer decides his decision to do so hurt their image.