Mar
9

Roundtable Poll Question – NPR Executive Caught Calling Tea Partiers ‘Racist’

Written by: Sarah LaDuke    Filed under: Poll Question     Comments: Comments Off    Tags

NPR says it has placed Ronald Schiller on administrative leave, after a secretly taped video shows the advertising executive denigrating Tea Party supporters and calling them “racist.” What do you make of the situation?

Read the NY Times article here: link.

Update:
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned this morning while Joe, Alan, and Helen Desfosses were speaking about this on the air.

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah LaDuke

Sarah grew up in Saranac Lake, NY where she worked part time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from SUNY Albany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the producer of The Roundtable.

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