Justice is served. NPR terminated the contract of its longtime news analyst Juan Williams after his racist remarks on Muslims.
On the The O’Reilly Factor, Williams had said: “Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.” Williams criticized “political correctness,” which he said  could “lead to some kind of paralysis, where you don’t address reality.”
NPR said, “His remarks on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR,” the statement read, according to a story on NPR’s website. His contributions to Fox News had already raised eyebrows at NPR in the past. In 2009, NPR had asked him to stop being identified on The O’Reilly Factor as a “senior correspondent for NPR,” even though that title was correct. In 2008, NPR received 378 emails of listener complaints about him.  NPR’s ethical response sends a strong message to the rest of the media that bigotry and racism is not tolerated in America. Thanks NPR for taking this fair and ethical stand!
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