Background: former NPR host Lisa Simone decided to become a spokeswoman for Occupy Washington. Shocking, I know; and also a violation of NPR’s own code of conduct. So NPR… fired Lisa Simone.
Shocking, I know.
Now, normally I’d meanly speculate on just why NPR jumped on this, but then I read this sentence:
The official who fired Simeone reportedly did so over the phone and read NPR’s ethics code to her during the call.
Reading out the ethics code to the person that you’re firing over the phone? Just so that they know how and why the messed up? That is worth maybe a little forbearance. Positive reinforcement, and all that.
Somewhere, Juan Williams is eating lunch.
It seems to me that NPR’s big problem is bias, not integrity. It’s not that they are not trying, it’s just the prism through which they view the word…
How soon before Dylan Ratigan gets similar read-the-riot-act treatment?
Stopped clock, twice a day, etc.