{"id":197025,"date":"2008-03-07T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/07\/npr-ceo-fired\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T05:21:00","slug":"npr-ceo-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/07\/npr-ceo-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR CEO Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/03\/06\/AR2008030603473.html?hpid=topnews\">weird shakeup going on at NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I only hope that, in the end, it results in a reduced role for hacks Barbara Bradley Hagerty<sup>*<\/sup>, Mara Liasson, and Juan Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly Williams, who in addition to being a hack is the stupid beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">She is in the pocket of the right wing Christian dominionist movement, see <a href=\"http:\/\/betterangels.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/caught-with-my-blog-down.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/betterangels.blogspot.com\/2004\/07\/more-on-lilly-endowment.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/betterangels.blogspot.com\/2004\/07\/she-just-doesnt-get-it-does-she.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/betterangels.blogspot.com\/2004\/06\/now-shes-even-pissing-off-baptists.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/betterangels.blogspot.com\/2004\/05\/shouldnt-she-be-nprs-christianity.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/betterangels.blogspot.com\/2004\/05\/in-which-doubts-are-cast-upon-veracity.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/betterangels.blogspot.com\/2004\/05\/ballad-of-barbara-bradley-hagerty.html\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some sort of weird shakeup going on at NPR. I only hope that, in the end, it results in a reduced role for hacks Barbara Bradley Hagerty*, Mara Liasson, and Juan Williams. Particularly Williams, who in addition to being a hack is the stupid beyond belief. *She is in the pocket of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}