Also: On the Moon, it's water, water everywhere ...
News analyst Juan Williams appears on the "Fox & Friends" television program in New York on Thursday. Williams, who has written extensively on race and civil rights in the U.S., has been fired by National Public Radio after comments he made about Muslims on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday.From CBS News:
The firing of NPR contributor Juan Williams for comments about Muslims - he said among other things that he gets "nervous" when he sees Muslims on his airplane flights - has prompted Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin to call for NPR to be stripped of federal funding. ...
But the outcry reflects something of a misunderstanding of just how "public" NPR really is. Let's start with the name: Though Palin refers to "National Public Radio," NPR no longer identifies itself that way.
And though NPR is widely seen as publicly funded, the majority of its funding does not come (even indirectly) from taxpayers. NPR doesn't receive direct federal funding for operations - the largest chunk of its money comes from program fees and station dues ...
» Read the full story: Does National Public Radio take taxpayer dollars? [CBS News]
More on Juan Williams' firing from NPR
» NPR fires Juan Williams over remarks about Muslims [syracuse.com]
» Williams firing sparks calls to defund National Public Radio [FOX News]
» Fox defends Williams over Muslim remarks [Associated Press]
In other news ...
» Canadian military commander gets life for killing two women [CNN]
» Pentagon revises "don't ask, don't tell" discharge procedures [MSNBC]
» Obama is going to Pakistan; India is not amused [Christian Science Monitor]
» U.S. states group OKs tough health insurance rules [Reuters]
» Moon not only has water, but lots of it [Wall Street Journal]