NPR on Williams/Bush interview…
FishbowlDC has the internal NPR email from NPR News Vice President Ellen Weiss on the Juan Williams interview…
I cannot imagine a newsroom where everyone agrees with every assignment, booking, angle or other decision made by management — it would be a pretty dull and probably unproductive place to work. Every NPR employee has the right to disagree with our decision-making, and the right to express those opinions to management directly; an open door policy on all issues exists throughout the organization. But those disagreements are to remain where they are taken up, internally. I appreciate your interest and thoughts on this.
So much for “internally”…
NPR is telling us that management can exercise censorhsip if it wants to, which it did in the case of Juan Williams. This is a such an abominable decision that those responsible ought to resign. There was no harm airing that interview, but of course that would be vindicating Bill O’Reilly. We ought to boycott NPR for its hypocritical stance. It makes me feel it is as bad, if not worse, than MoveOn.org.
Comment by RGL — October 2, 2007 @ 4:21 pm
Yeah right now pull the other one. Idiot.
Comment by Liz — October 2, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
RGL, don’t worry about a boycott. I doubt whether many people listen to them anyway - that’s why they rely on public funds! They would last 2 minutes in the free market.
Comment by Missy — October 2, 2007 @ 5:54 pm
“wouldn’t last two minutes”
Comment by Missy — October 2, 2007 @ 5:55 pm