‘I’m Not Done’: Former NPR Exec Vows Return to Media
- Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:02pm by
Meredith Jessup
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Ousted National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Vivian Schiller is breaking her silence about her abrupt exit from the media organization following two tumultuous scandals rocked the last six months of her tenure.
Appearing at the International Women’s Media Foundation in Washington, D.C. this week, Schiller signaled that while she may be down, she’s not out.
“I’m not done. I certainly plan to stay in journalism. I feel too passionate about it, and so yes, I will be back in some position at some point in the not too distant future,” Schiller said.
As you’ll recall, Schiller was recently dismissed from NPR after conservative activist James O‘Keefe’s video expose tied the organization to a fictitious Muslim Brotherhood front group willing to donate to a sympathetic American media outlet. O‘Keefe’s undercover video operation also captured high-level NPR executives making disparaging remarks about the conservative modern-day tea party movement, seemingly solidifying many individuals’ opinion that NPR propels a liberal bent.
The O’Keefe scandal also came just months after Schiller fired and publicly scorned NPR analyst and Fox News contributor Juan Williams for opinions he made during an FNC primetime broadcast about Muslims and terrorism.
Despite the public backlash against her recent professional turmoil, Schiller says she isn’t ready to abandon the media business.
“We went through a series of four or five extremely difficult months, and it was very stressful and there was a tremendous amount of pressure on me,” Schiller said.
Prior to joining NPR in 2009, Schiller was senior vice president and general manager of NYTimes.com. She was also a top executive at the Discovery Channel. While she doesn’t hint at what she might do in the future, Schiller promises her return to media will come “at some point in the not too distant future.”
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Comments (147)
caprica
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:58pmalllltaalllllzeeelllaa would take her…..Hilary love alltazeeeeeeeeeera better than American media …
Report Post »they need wackos like her….
thegoodvoter
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:49pmPlease, please, please, don’t let her star in any poorn flicks!
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:42pmSoros will take Shiller under his grimey wing and make a whole new media outlet for her to reign over. The lies will be the same in nature but with a new gloss. Well call it NLM for now “National Liberal Media”
Report Post »MoreC02
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:33pmGross. And she know it. She longs to be someone else.
Report Post »WILLIAM E.
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:19pmShe wants to go back to journalism ? Her style of journalism.
Report Post »uncleherbert
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:15pmStick a fork in her, she’s done.
Report Post »mbean
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:15pmThere you see “it was because she was a woman”.
Feminism loony talk.
Report Post »Moises
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:09pmthe way FoxNews is hiring leftists and their view is shifting left she’ll be working there in no time !!!!!!!!!!!! Can anyone distiguish FoxNew and Msnbc/Cnn anymore ????????
Report Post »Marrabella
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 3:50pmSo true, Moises. I used to watch fox ..now I have to use internet sources to get closer to the truth.
Report Post »Wonder if the rumors of Beck leaving Fox News are true?
He needs to distance himself from them if he wants to contain a modicum of truth.
Rachel Madcow
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:06pmI am sure she will be working in the White House soon. After all shes been working for the Dems long enough, why not move in.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:00pmNo Comment…..
Report Post »sure… defunding NPR starts with removing her salary
ARealCharliesAngel
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:55pmI expected nothing less…..Hey, are you one of Media Matter’s newest “Anti-Fox & Anti-Beck” Bashers?!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:51pmThis is the problem, she is confusing what she does with journalism.
Report Post »ISeeDanger.com
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:45pmBreaking News !!!
Report Post »She just signed with…. Al Jazeera
Perfect match.
Angeld
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:41pmCNN should hire her to co host with Elliott Spitzer! Call it: Scum and Scumer!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:00pmOhhh, that’s bad! rofl!
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:35pmSure..Pravda might be looking, or say….Granma International, English language edition of the newspaper of Cuba’s Communist Party. or..maybe..Xinhua is subordinate to the PRC State Council and reports to the Communist Party of China’s Publicity and Public Information Departments…yea..those would be right where she belongs
Report Post »Angeld
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:32pmShe got exactly what she deserves. Put her on MSNBC along with the other Ugly Women!
Report Post »Bermuda Onion
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:30pmWhat the FOK? Hey, Vivian, if you wait to June sometime there will be an opening at CBS. You definitely will fit in just right.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:21pmMaybe Soros will set up an out front news station called A(ll)S(oros)S(tation) where the news will be unfair and unbalanced.
Report Post »ghost-of-elvis
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:18pmAl jazeera english here she comes
Report Post »justice
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:12pmOh. Loons always find their ways back to water.
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:10pmWhy are these progressive hags always so dang ugly???
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:50pmHaving all the abortions take their toll.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:51pmYou don’t listen to Rush, do you?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:59pm@DALE -
Are you kin to SilentWatcher or Cheez? You’re sharp!
Report Post »BlazerBlazer
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:37pmBitterness turns one ugly and into a liberal…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:13pmOr swallowing all that aggression. That is what made John Candy fat in Stripes.
Report Post »White Devil
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 1:41pmThat is exactly what I was thinking. The term “FUGLY” comes to mind.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:08pmNational Palestinian Radio is still hiring.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:07pmWho cares………!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:58pmNot I! I don’t listen to NPR anyway. I still don’t want NPR funded, whether she works there or a corner on Decatur Street in Atlanta.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:06pmShe would be a perfect at MSNBC. There is certainly no shortage of networks that have an agenda matching hers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4X2RDvw5E
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:05pmThere is always FOK you can run.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:15pmWhat the hell is FOK? Is that a new network? This lady is a complete loon, that means she’ll have no problem getting a job in the MSM. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJgTlPwQEUM
Report Post »avenger
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:17pmI hear Putin is looking for experienced propagandists…
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:31pm@Darmok – That’s right, I forgot about the Olbermann thing.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:45pmAl Gore’s “Current TV” seems to be hiring disgraced “journalists”……if Vivian has experience as a massage therapist she should at least get called back for a second interview…….
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:56pmI’ve found out some stuff about the guns and ATF. I put them at the bottom of the first comment of the gun story..
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:57pmOf course she’s not done yet, these cockroaches never go away
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:58pmHoly smokes, my post explaining the Keith Olberman thing was removed. What the heck Blaze? Did I offend Olberman?
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:00pmShe’ll find a position, it just wont be a position of power. Even the libs aren’t dumb enough to hire her after her repeated demonstrations of poor judgement.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
dealer@678
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:03pmShe‘s way too ugly to work at Fox UNLESS she’s not a woman as she claims
Report Post »UncleBuck
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:04pmshe already running FOK’d up…..
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:07pm@Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Just read your explanation (not Olbermann). Yup!
Report Post »duckwalker
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:07pmOr how about MSNBC. She would fit in really well over there, Although, since being wiened from the Gov’t teat she may need more public donations.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:09pmI have only one question:
If conservatives can get to the bottom of things, and the federal government has to have an Inspector General on a case, is that the reason that Obama lies so much?
Well, two:
Report Post »Is the IG really investigating,. or is he hired to sugar-coat and cover up?
uncleherbert
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:10pmBy Vivian, 52 weeks of unemployment, makes a great vacation.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:21pmThe only place that is ruled out for future employment would be Fox. They have scruples about the type of people that they hire. Being a progressive who has no problem with demeaning anyone who is not of like mind might keep old Viv from coming onboard at Fox.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:36pmSoros will get her another job. After all she is a loyal member of the party…Stupid member, but loyal. Or unfortunately she may have to go under the bus…
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:59pmOf course she isn’t done. She’ll find another venue to pitch communist propaganda from. Heck, she may even replace Couric at CBS.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:17pmI say prove youre a woman Vivian OR is your real name Vince
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:52pmI say fess up Vivian OR should we ask your barber
Report Post »brliantedj
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:26pmWhen are the taxpayers going to realize this is the DEBT, paying for useless idiocy (would have liked to say Idiocracy) Paying for excess baggage has never been worth it just like this (useful) Idiot could’t compete in a FREE market. Taxpayer beware, this one is about to get back on your back.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 11:08pmWow .. I saw some complaining about the heavy censorship earlier today … I guess they were right .. I made a joke … nothing wrong with it .. and it is gone.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 11:39pmHillBillySam1
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:45pm
Al Gore’s “Current TV” seems to be hiring disgraced “journalists”……if Vivian has experience as a massage therapist she should at least get called back for a second interview…….
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Have you seen the new program on Current TV called Bar Karma? It’s the worst show on TV… EVER! But then again, Gore is the head honcho so it makes perfect sense that it would suck!
Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
Report Post »http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 12:01am@CatB
Report Post »I have been saying that for 2 days. For some reason, the Blaze is randomly censoring posts, nothing bad, nothing derogative, just deleting posts.
HillBillySam1
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 1:41am@THEPATRIOTDAVE
Report Post »Al Gore may not have invented the internet, as he claimed, but he certainly has invented HORRIBLE TV…..Tipper said that this would happen when Al went thru puberty……again……
Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 1:43amAl Jazeera might just snap her up.
Report Post »WTH
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 5:11amThis woman had a very stressful 4 or 5 months because of her own ineptitude. It wasn’t more stressful or harder because she was a woman, it was because of her jacked up leftist ideologue views that lead her to her own demise. The left loves to promote and reward those that fail and aren’t qualified. Look at the woman the Obama admin is trying to get as the new FBI director, former head of Fannie Mae. Schiller is where she belongs, unemployed!!!!!!
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 7:14amShe is proof that you can’t keep a good socialist down
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 9:06amShe is correct.
Report Post »There is always room in the liberal media for arrogant socialist.
Lucy Larue
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 1:02pmToo funny! Vivian Schiller is channeling Charlie Sheen. Her entire rant can be summed up as, “DUH!Winning!”
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 10:47pmNOTICE HOW the interviewer ‘set things up’ by asking about problems Schiller may have faced by being the first female head of NPR.
YOU WOULD EXPECT THAT from a group like IWMF. NPR has, many many times, used that tactic with the most reprehensible people. They always twist things to make the far left seem discriminated against.
I can hear NPR interviewing Farrakan and saying something like….‘why do you think it is that people characterize you as racist’? OR..‘ do you think we’ve made any progress in race relations here in the US.’ Terry Grossmeout is expert at that. NPR is a complete embarrassment.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 10:54pmSchiller…another Jew working against this country. I guess the interviewer, King, is one,too.
Report Post »They’re not all bad…but theres lots of bad ones with money and power. Bad combination.
jds7171
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 2:29pmDon’t you know. She is going to be the new Czar of journalism. She will set the standards of journalism throughout the nation.
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