Was it pre-planned? Did Fox have a ready-to-ink contract waiting for Juan Williams?

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O'Reilly brings up Juan Williams' NPR credentials on The Factor
October 18, 2010 9:18 pm ET
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201010180055

BrklynLiberal
Fri Oct-22-10 05:07 PM
http://pr.thinkprogress.org /
MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY Beneath Juan Williams' Reality
... Last year, after Williams compared Michelle Obama to "Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress," NPR requested he no longer be identified as affiliated with NPR when appearing on Fox ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9370162&mesg_id=9370162

1gobluedem
Thu Oct-21-10 01:42 PM
Re: Juan Williams, from NPR
I work for an NPR affiliate; by making those remarks regarding Muslims, Juan Williams violated the terms of his contract. Following is an excerpt from a letter from NPR's president ... these specific comments (and others made in the past), are inconsistent with NPR’s ethics code, which applies to all journalists (including contracted analysts): “In appearing on TV or other media . . . NPR journalists should not express views they would not air in their role as an NPR journalist. They should not participate in shows . . . that encourage punditry and speculation rather than fact-based analysis.” More fundamentally, “In appearing on TV or other media including electronic Web-based forum ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9361586&mesg_id=9361586

walldude
Fri Oct-22-10 11:10 AM
NPR's Code Of Ethics
... Here is NPR's Code Of Ethics ...
http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/ethics/ethics_code.html#conflicts ...
"10. In appearing on TV or other media including electronic Web-based forums, NPR journalists should not express views they would not air in their role as an NPR journalist. They should not participate in shows electronic forums, or blogs that encourage punditry and speculation rather than fact-based analysis" ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9367549&mesg_id=9367549

nashville_brook
Thu Oct-21-10 10:35 PM
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/conservatives-declare-war-npr
Conservatives declare WAR on NPR
... Less than 24 hours after NPR news analyst Juan Williams was fired for saying he felt "nervous" and "worried" when he saw Muslims at airports, he has accepted a nearly $2-million, three-year contract with Fox News. And conservative politicians, long opposed to NPR's publicly-funded status, have seized on the opportunity to call for a de-funding of NPR and even a congressional investigation into the media company's activities ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9365136&mesg_id=9365136

1gobluedem
Fri Oct-22-10 09:33 AM
Thank you SO much RW hate media for encouraging your minions to call public radio stations
And attack innocent phone volunteers with venomous, expletive-laden, tirades on something they really know nothing about. The poor guy volunteering his time at my station's pledge drive today at 7 a.m. really enjoyed being called a f**king, communist, liberal pig, whore ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9366930&mesg_id=9366930


COLGATE4
Thu Oct-21-10 09:52 PM
Looks like Juan Williams' getting fired from NPR isn't
going to hurt him much ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9364876&mesg_id=9364876

ruck
Fri Oct-22-10 10:23 AM
1. he was looking for reason to join the FOX team
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9367233&mesg_id=9367241

I think the whole thing was a ploy.
ashling
Fri Oct-22-10 11:02 AM
11. Juan needed to get fired from NPR to get his blood money from FOX
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9366995&mesg_id=9367502

blindpig
Fri Oct-22-10 11:08 AM
14. He played NPR like a fine instrument
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9366995&mesg_id=9367537

arbusto_baboso
Fri Oct-22-10 02:08 PM
5. This is all starting to smell of "set up" to me.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9368858&mesg_id=9368896