NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns

09:19 am

March 9, 2011

by Mark Memmott


NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned, NPR just announced.

This follows yesterday's news that then-NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller (no relation) was videotaped slamming conservatives and questioning whether NPR needs federal funding during a lunch with men posing as members of a Muslim organization (they were working with political activist James O'Keefe on a "sting.")

Vivian Schiller quickly condemned Ron Schiller's comments, and he moved up an already-announced decision to leave NPR and resigned effective immediately. But Ron Schiller's gaffe followed last fall's dismissal of NPR political analyst Juan Williams, for which Vivian Schiller came under harsh criticism and NPR's top news executive, Ellen Weiss, resigned.

<snip>

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/09/134388981/npr-ceo-vivian-schiller-resigns

I understand Jim DeMint is having a hissy fit, but so what.

No question that NPR has changed over the past years.

was fire Juan Williams. Which was a good thing.

Oh wait. Seriously you lose to a criminal and his camera because you refuse to use your media outlet to expose the truth about him? Maybe they shouldn't be running a NPR afterall.