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Ellen,
So who do you think got it right? You or the board?
Do you think they were pressured somehow to make the wrong decision?
Contracts (like this one) almost always say that the person can be fired for any reason. That includes bad reasons, poor judgment on the part of the person doing the terminating, anything. So the fact that no laws were broken or no contracts breached is meaningless.
Fox can have him. He may be a clever man, but I always found his tendency to dumb-down the conversation infuriating.
Ellen you make me laugh. Only NPR defends itself after admitting to screwing up. Ms. Weiss is obvioulsy not top notch. She messed up and now you and her other minions are defending her.
I still believe Juan Williams had to move on. He had changed over the years, becoming more of a commentator and less of a journalist. That’s fine…but not in the role he played at NPR. As for NPR, I believe Ellen Weiss is a first-class journalist and editor. However, the bottom line for me–and for the 35 million Americans who tune into public radio each month–is that NPR is such a strong news organization that the departure of any single individual does not change the quality of the service. It’s the sign of a healthy operation.