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January 07, 2011

Juan Williams, pots, kettles and Faux

Faux News commentator Juan Williams, commenting on the resignation of Ellen Weiss, the NPR exec who fired him after his anti-Muslim comments:
Williams told Fox News that the executive who fired him last year "represented a very ingrown, incestuous culture" at NPR that was not open to different perspectives.

Pots and kettles, Juan. In general, and especially given your new boss.

That also said, it shows cross-media incestuousness by NPR in search of some elusive balance. Hell, stop it. Get Mara Liasson off Faux, too, NPR.

The NPR internal review of Weiss's actions is here.

There's actually some good things in there about reporters' participation and interaction with today's political world, and reframing NPR standards.

As for Faux, it has no standards in the first place.

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