Amid a debate over federal funding, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller used the National Press Club stage Monday to try to focus attention on the public radio network’s value and finally to move past the controversy over the firing of Juan Williams. Today, she is out following another staff-related controversy, abruptly ending a two-year term dotted with considerable success with NPR in the news once again for all the wrong reasons.
The NPR board announced Schiller’s resignation this morning, a day after a video “sting” of chief fundraiser Ron Schiller (no relation) hit. In the surreptitious video of him talking to two purported Muslim donors, who were fakes, Ron Schiller said federal funding shouldn’t be needed for public radio and called some Tea Party supporters “seriously racist, racist people.” Ron Schiller also admitted the importance of federal funding and refused a (fake) $5 million donation from the pair. He had already announced that he was leaving NPR for another job in May; his resignation was made effective immediately.
Via http://paidcontent.org/article/419-breaking-vivian-schiller-out-as-npr-ceo-one-controversy-too-many/
