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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
Why are they pointless?* I think an EEOC claim is still viable for quite some time. I don't know necessarily if it'd prevail, but certainly he could make a race or age discrimination claim. (Bob Edwards, in my opinion, had a better case for the latter, but that's another story.) My organization certainly would have waited a day or two to review the issue before making any quick decisions to terminate the contract.
I know that NPR listeners have been annoyed with Williams for years now, and the corporation was probably very eager to get him the hell out of there. But it did seem very quick. OTOH, this is the same organization that first forbade its news staff from attending Jon Stewart's rally as attendees on the basis that it may be perceived as political and therefore the news staff would be showing bias. And after his statements on Fox, I don't think I'd ever want to hear his analysis on anything about Muslims again. Given the world we live in and the role he had at NPR as a news analyst, there is a high likelihood that his job would require him to analyze issues revolving around Muslims. His analysis would be suspect going forward. I think his termination was probably appropriate, but it probably was a little faster than I would have advised had anyone bothered to ask me.
*Disclosure, according to my bank statement, my last contribution to an NPR affiliate was six days ago, and after Planned Parenthood, it is the non-profit that gets the most frequent charitable contributions from me. I rely on NPR for most of my news.
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I think it was stupid, and will now place NPR, something I listen to everyday, in the crosshairs of the right wing smear machine. NPR has been a little left over the years, but in an interesting, good way, and now they're going to be embroiled in a stupid controversy that's going to cause the station to edit out any hint of opinion. They'll become CNN. Start doing dumb pieces on Toby Keith to show their "fair and balanced" bona fides.
Oh, and the guy didn't deserve to be fired. It was a horrible overreaction to an absolutely harmless admission by a talking head trying to be as open as possible with his audience. Good for him that Fox turned around and handed him a $2mil contract.
