(October 23, 2010 at 9:14 am)A Theist Wrote: Liberals and conservatives express outrage over NPR's firing of liberal news anylist, Juan Williams, for comments he made about muslims on the O'Reilly Factor. People are demanding that federal funding be cut from NPR. What do you think...
I think the Republicans have been trying to silence NPR since it first entered the air waves. I don't think one thing has anything to do with the other.
I think Juan Williams must have known what the repurcussions would be if he were to make such statements. That said, he has a right to express his views, and he did just that. By the same token, he isn't guaranteed a job, has no inherent right to work at NPR. Employers can fire you for any reason, or no reason. Welcome to the real world.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
