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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller — who was at the center of the Juan Williams firing controversy — is gone in the wake of the undercover video showing a departing executive holding a donor lunch with men posing as representatives of a Muslim Brotherhood front group.
In the video, the then NPR executive went after everybody from Jews to conservatives to Americans in general for being stupid. He was already on his way out, but now the video has claimed a bigger fish.
“BREAKING: The board for NPR NEWS has just ousted CEO Vivian Schiller in the wake of video sting by conservative activist of a top exec,” NPR’s media correspondent David Folkenflik tweeted a short while ago.
UPDATE: Here’s NPR’s official story/statement.
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martin j smith| 3.9.11 @ 10:20AM
NPR ( AND PBS A CLOSE RELATION ) HAVE BEEN EXPOSED FOR WHAT EVERYONE WITH A BRAIN KNOWS THEY ARE. THEY SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAD AND IN THE FUTURE NEVER SHOULD GET TAXPAYER MONEY !!!!!!!!!!!!
AND EVEN THEN, THEY SHOULD EXPOSED POLITICALLY AS WELL ANYWAY. A PROPAGANDA OUTFIT OF THE LEFT. PERIOD.
Spicy Joker| 3.9.11 @ 10:33AM
Are Ron Schiller and Vivian Schiller the same person?
Clinger in PA| 3.9.11 @ 11:16AM
Are Ron Schiller and Vivian Schiller man and wife (to use an archaic conservative phrase)?
Humphry Dumfries | 3.9.11 @ 11:47AM
No relation.
Alex P. Keaton | 3.9.11 @ 11:30AM
The larger issue here is that PBS and NPR are outmoded. They came about at a time when there were only three networks, no satelite radio, no internet, etc. And its insulting to taxpayers to see the gazzillions of dollars "Huckster Alley" makes on their merchandising. Let Oscar The Liberal (ever meet a happy one?) pay for his own garbage can (and therapy for his latent hoarding syndrome).
Socialist Television Workshop| 3.9.11 @ 11:37AM
Oh, what a shame if NPR were to compete in the real world. Bobos everywhere will have to listen to commercial radio while reading the Sunday New York Times.
JohnD| 3.9.11 @ 11:44AM
I called up my local PBS station during their last televised pledge drive. They said, "we cannot bring you 40 year old British sitcoms without your support."
So I called up and said, "I want to pledge $100," followed by an anti-semitic, anti-tea party tirade. They thanked me for my generous donation, and sent me a Hamas totebag.
Then Fawlty Towers came back on, and it was the one where Basil smacks Manuel around while hosting a group of German tourists.
I Survived Arlen Specter| 3.9.11 @ 1:40PM
I used to watch PBS for these shows too John, but I'm glad now that I bought the dvds instead of continuing to be fed PBS's left wing drivel. Same with NPR. I used to be a regular listener of the University of Pennsylvania based radio station WXPN which plays an offbeat blend of music without wearing out classic rock like most AOR stations do today. I couldn't stand the NPR left wing slanted news commentaries though. Instead I tuned WXPN out & listen to my own music collection. I do occasionally miss The World Cafe, but I don't miss the left wing drivel NPR forced down my throat if I wanted to tune in though. Spending some money to get away from PBS & NPR left wing rubbish was worth every cent.
Paul McGrath| 3.9.11 @ 12:02PM
I, for one, am going to miss the "Antiques Roadshow" and am very sorry that this cultural icon will now be missing from my life.
Not to mention programs featuring eighty year-olds singing fifties tunes for seventy year-olds who used to be hippies which only get interrupted every five minutes or so for twenty minute pledge breaks.
Yep. I'll miss those, too.
southernsue| 3.9.11 @ 12:09PM
get netflix. you can watch just about anything you want. the key is that there are no commercials and you have a choice what you want to watch.
$8.00 a month to boot.
Conservative View| 3.9.11 @ 12:10PM
I wish defunding NPR would be the end of it, but somehow I don't believe it will. The left needs a news outlet to further both their image and causes. If NPR goes, something else, newly federally funded will arise from the ashes. What we need is a bill that says the Government may not expend funds on any televised, broadcast, or internet news or entertainment outlet. If the bill is made strong enough perhaps we can avoid the rise of an NPR clone for a decade or so.
NoLib| 3.9.11 @ 12:20PM
I can't believe how stupid these NPR people are. Hilarious.
Thanks, James.
Grzmlyk| 3.9.11 @ 12:37PM
One of the many insidous things about NPR and PBS is that they exemplify the classic iron fist of tyranny that lies just beneath the kid-leather glove of erudition and refinement.
I've worked in both the arts and corporate marketing, and, virtually without exception, the denizens of both of those worlds listen to NPR excluslively, and revere the "purity" of PBS while scorning low-brow television that is driven by the evil profit motive (as if PBS/NPR are not).
The extent of the monolithic mindset is amazing - and deeply, deeply depressing.
When I was doing public relations, if I engaged in small talk with a colleague, they would invariably start every conversation with, "I was listening to NPR and I heard this fantastic . . . . "
NPR and PBS are classic totems of a society driven to the madness of totalitarianism by sheer moral and intellectual vanity: They show this face that is placid, above-the-fray intellectual, thoughtful, ecumenical and highly evolved.
What they are is a bigoted, hateful, corrupt, classist, snobbish, elitist, pretentious, condescending, petty, inbred, masturbatory tyranny, and both Schillers, far from being outliers, typify the Aryan master-racism that is the glue that holds Public TV/Radio together - and is emulated by its myriad credulous fans, all ever-so eager lap up the Kool-Aid without question and to bask in the reflected glow of its self-anointed, rarefied superiority.
It truly makes me despondent - and unhopeful for the future - that so many otherwise intelligent people bite on the enticing lure of self satisfaction and never notice the hook of tyranny that lies hidden among the pretty colors.
These people will gleefully allow themselves to be pulverized into extinction in exchange for being patted on the head and pronounced good, compassionate liberals by the unctious and arrogant echo-chamber cult that perpetuates this self-idolatry.
CalMark| 3.9.11 @ 1:18PM
You call PBS and NPR "classic totems." Perfect term!
They use these so-called cultural, intellecutal institutions as a kind of in-crowd catch phrase. If you don't listen, you're not "in."
Let the Leftie in-crowd pay for their own hangout! For a change...
Grzmlyk| 3.9.11 @ 1:40PM
Right you are - and this putz Schiller said that the great unwashed public is so ill-informed, that taxpayer funding only accounts for 10 percent of revenues.
What a racket! If they include all the tax breaks that corporations receive for advertising - excuse me, I meant "supporting" public TV and radio, and then add revenues that come in from the state level, NPR remains about 40-50% funded by confiscated money.
I just ran across this jewel from Reason magazine online - I thought Reason was a repository for libertarianism. Just read this and see if it doesn't EXACTLY depict the very state of mind of your average public TV/radio robot that I described above - again, this was written by a supposed LIBERTARIAN, Steve Chapman.
What a GOOD little erudite automaton Steve Chapman is. March lively into the liquidation chamber, Stevie boy! Don't worry - you'll hear the strains of the Fresh Air program right up until you lose consciousness! You can listen to Terry Gross into eternity!
Steve Chapman | March 3, 2011
"I am an American and a male, so you can easily guess the first thing I do when I arrive in a hotel room: pick up the TV remote and turn on ESPN. The second thing may not be so universal: tune the clock radio to the local public radio station.
I have been happily addicted to the medium since 1979, when National Public Radio launched its "Morning Edition" news show. I wake up to NPR every day. I listen to it in the shower.
It's the first button on my car radio. I've set up automatic monthly contributions to my public radio station, so I'll be supporting it till the day I die, and maybe after.
In short, I think congressional Republicans are badly mistaken in denouncing public radio as a contemptible source of liberal propaganda and snooty elitism that the nation would be better off without. It's a national treasure, in my view."
Makes me want to vomit.
Paul McGrath| 3.9.11 @ 3:17PM
You nailed in Mr. Grzmlyk. Because Mr. Chapman thinks NPR is good, it therefore must BE good. And if it is good, then it must be supported by the (taxpaying) public. And if you don't think it should be supported by the (taxpaying) public, then you are stupid.
Convenient.
Clinger in PA| 3.9.11 @ 1:28PM
proletariat 2, intelectuals 0