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To: steve harris who wrote (285646)	10/21/2010 6:53:53 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

NPR Stations Inundated With Complaints About Williams’ Firing WBUR 10/21/2010 by Andrew Phelps hubbub.wbur.org WBUR has received more than 30 calls and a slew of e-mails from listeners to complain about the firing of NPR news analyst Juan Williams, and three people have received refunds for their donations. That number might not sound like a lot, but it is meaningful — rarely do people make good on threats to cancel their support. Member stations around the country — many of them in the middle of fundraising this week — live on the front lines. We get credit and, in this case, blame for NPR’s decisions. Many listeners don’t understand the distinction between the member station (WBUR) and the network (NPR). WBUR, of course, played no part in the decision to fire Williams. NPR has created a special website for member stations with talking points, contact information for media and listener inquiries and a link to NPR’s ethics guidelines. NPR says it is so inundated with complaints, the NPR.org “Contact Us” page has crashed.