....Juan Williams is rapidly turning into one of my favorite commentators, simply for the fact he is showing more and more often that he can weigh two sides of an issue and make up his own mind rather than spouting the usual party line.

It seems that the grayer he is getting the more rational he becomes.

Juan Williams gets another lesson in how tolerant and open to other views his liberal bretheren really are. Congratulations, Mr. Williams, you are on your way to being a conservative... 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

NPR listeners are so biased and uncomfortable with hearing other viewpoints that they would prefer correspondents be fired for appearing on other networks than to have to live with the idea that their are different sides and different opinons. They should change their name to National Partisan Radio.

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

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how many letters they get critical of their own content?

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Will the "Fairness Doctrine" apply to NPR? Just wondering

Anyone who listens to it is a douchebag. It is just that simple.

Juan is Alan Combs with brain cells. Let NPR listen to their few but loud and obnoxious fans and let Fox have Juan.

NPR (Never-ending Pi[ck]ing on Republicans) ombudsmanperson Alicia Shepard:

"Juan Williams is a contributor to NPR programs as a news analyst," said Ron Elving, NPR's Washington editor. "What he says on NPR is the product of a journalistic process that includes editors. What he says when he is not on our air is not within our control. But we recognize that what he says elsewhere reflects on NPR, and we have discussed that fact with him specifically in regard to his remarks on Fox News regarding Michelle Obama."

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when that conversation occurred.  "It makes us look bad when you say something that isn't worshipful of Michelle!  It doesn't matter if your skin's black, Juan -- you're not really black unless you sound black!" (I have personal experience with that point-of-view). I gotta wonder what that contract says that even gives them the right to discuss what he says on other media outlets since they admit they can't control his statements outside their studios!

More evidence the synapses of liberal journalists are twisted like rotini: If they were normal, logical people, the NPR people would take the opportunity of Juan Williams' high-profile centrism to blunt the image of the net as a bastion of effete government-funded Eurocentric anti-corporate Birkenstock-wearing left-wingers who play acoustic music where commercials should be.  Instead, they embrace that image in suggesting Williams -- an independent contractor -- should be chastened for associating himself with NPR while on FNC air because of the content of his commentary when he isn't working there. 

But the Nippers can't even admit the truth about its bias! "Some [NPR listeners] think Fox uses him as a liberal voice because, whether true or not, a perception exists that NPR is liberal."  "Whether true or not"?  Oh, OK then, let's review: "NPR has more than 400 reporters, editors, producers and analysts on its news team, and none is more of a lightning rod than Juan Williams ... there were [also] a healthy number of emails attacking political correspondent Mara Liasson for her regular appearances on Fox News." If NPR isn't liberal, why do the ones that on occasion stray from the leftist playground get pilloried?  If the NPR crowd weren't such ideologues, they would not be complaining that Williams and Liasson lent balance to the network's liberal "perception." Instead, the VP of News wants to, somehow, protect NPR by asking Williams to disassociate himself from it!

Is there a pill that cures bassackwards thinking?  NPR needs it!

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Juan Should wear it as a badge of Honor...The Intolerance of the supposed tolerant libs... Ouch, was that the hypocrisy bug biting them in the bottom!

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...to have a problem with Juan Williams, who I think is one of the most decent, wise and down to Earth pundits in America.

Since the Democrats are now out of control, trying to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine", then I say now is the time for the Repubs to stand up and demand that the left wing, partisan NPR and PBS propaganda outlets lose all of their taxpayer dollars. American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for far left propaganda.

Dems want this war, it's time to take it to them. As soon as one of those loons bring up the "Fairness Doctrine" on the House floor, then the Repubs must try to attach amendments to every single bill which would strip taxpayer funding for left wing propaganda. It's time to start itemizing every instance of left wing propaganda broadcast on NPR and PBS. 

You are right on target!  They obviously have no interest in even promoting the perception that NPR isn't monolithic in it's partisanship. 

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I like Juan Williams. He may lean left, but he does not abdicate common sense on issues. I feel the same way about Camille Paglia. I do not agree with all their positions but they present their side without hate and arrogance.

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Thanks - I thought it would probably be the FCC but just cannot imagine the subjective reasoning that would go into actually charging someone with violating such a doctrine. The managment of it alone would seem to be a nightmare....I need to study up on it.

But dealing with the FCC is a bureaucratic nightmare. I was in broadcast management during the previous iteration of the "Fairness Doctrine."

Any opinion had to be balanced by the same number of seconds of opinion from the "other" side, and the liberals were constantly filing complaints alleging that the response time was not really equivalent on some pretext or other. The costs of defending against the constant allegations was immense.

It was so bad that the effect was simply to remove any shred of non-liberal content from the air. The small broadcaster simply lacks the resources to engage in a years long proceeding before FCC bureaucrats to defend their license.

To stay in business essentially all overt opinion was removed from the air...which is what the liberals want, since they control PBS and NPR and dominate almost all newsrooms.