NPR Controversy

As I'm sure you all have hard by now, NPR terminated the contract of news analyst Juan Williams after his disparaging comments on FOX News regarding Muslims. This post on PJNet features a video put together by contributor Leonard Witt asking CEO Vivian Schiller about the speech she just made on that matter. Witt had some pretty intelligent questions and Schiller mostly handled them well even if some of her answers might have been too vague. At about 1:27 she bought up the "role" of a journalist and even though her answer was kind of all over the place, I would say I mostly agree with her viewpoint when the says journalists should "draw out the truth from others." Two people commenting on the post were arguing over her credentials. I'm not really sure about that myself either, so I really have no say there. She was also asked about donating money to NPR as a journalist and he answer was that is was perfectly fine since you would be donating money to a news organization and not a political organization. I can see how that makes sense, but most people will agree that NPR comes across as pretty liberal. Obviously, more and more "news" outlets have been inundated with biased pundits from both sides which has been blurring the distinction between "news" and "political" organizations.