{"id":8834,"date":"2011-03-09T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2011-03-09T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T20:43:17","slug":"npr-chief-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8834\/npr-chief-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Chief Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8827\/npr-executives-slam-tea-party-say-they-dont-need-government-money-in-secret-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">undercover video<\/a> showing National Public Radio (NPR) senior executive Ron Schiller\u00a0slamming the Tea Party movement as &#8220;seriously, seriously racist people&#8221; and &#8220;scary,&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0proclaiming the organization would be better off without federal funding, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller (no relation) this morning announced her resignation.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0311\/50931.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico.com<\/a> reports the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vivian Schiller, the chief executive of NPR, resigned Wednesday in the aftermath of controversial comments from a fundraising executive and as congressional Republicans push to end federal funding for public radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Board accepted her resignation with understanding, genuine regret, and great respect for her leadership of NPR these past two years,&#8221; board chairman Dave Edwards said in a statement. &#8220;I recognize the magnitude of this news and that it comes on top of what has been a traumatic period for NPR and the larger public radio community.&#8221; \u2026<\/p>\n<p>David Folkenflik, NPR\u2019s media reporter, said on air Wednesday morning that sources had indicated to him that Schiller had been forced out by the board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In related news, President Obama&#8217;s FY 2011 budget proposal calls for\u00a0more than\u00a0$450\u00a0million in taxpayer funding for\u00a0the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which\u00a0supports NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service.\u00a0 In response to a question today about whether\u00a0it was time for taxpayers to stop subsidizing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR,\u00a0White House Press Secretary Jay Carney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/03\/09\/white_house_stands_by_npr_a_worthwhile_and_important_priority.html\" target=\"_blank\">made it clear<\/a>\u00a0that the president stands by the\u00a0funding request.\u00a0 &#8220;They are worthwhile and important priorities as our budget makes clear,&#8221; stated Carney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after the release of undercover video showing National Public Radio (NPR) senior executive Ron Schiller\u00a0slamming the Tea Party movement as &#8220;seriously, seriously racist people&#8221; and &#8220;scary,&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0proclaiming the organization would be better off without federal funding, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller (no relation) this morning announced her resignation. As Politico.com reports the story: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2462,1329,2463,2007,155],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-corporation-for-public-broadcasting","tag-james-okeefe","tag-jay-carney","tag-npr","tag-taxpayer-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}