NPR Should Have Let Juan Williams Go Years Ago – The Awl

NPR Should Have Let Juan Williams Go Years Ago – The Awl: "And now come the threats to terminate NPR's government funding. NPR should respond by telling the blowhards to bring it on. Federal funding makes up about 2 percent of NPR's budget. Even by the most extreme maximum estimates, including indirect sources, less than 10 percent of NPR's annual budget is from the kind of federal funding its enemies like to say it depends on. Losing that (still-valuable) 10 percent might be worth finally being rid of the 'publicly funded' albatross that has plagued the NPR brand."