[Leroy S. Mort]

“In appearing on TV or other media . . . NPR journalists should not express views they would not air in their role as an NPR journalist. They should not participate in shows . . . that encourage punditry and speculation rather than fact-based analysis.”

Wow. They just now discovered Juan was a "pundit" on Fox for the last gazillion years?

[dirtboy]

NPR journalists should not express views they would not air in their role as an NPR journalist.

The mendacity here is staggering. NPR is part of the system that launders liberal opinions through the news reporting process (such as global warming) as to proclaim them as being factual and not in contention. Any NPR reporter who says that global warming is settled science is expressing an opinion - not fact. And that is just one example of many - so this claim that Juan should not be expressing opinions is complete bunk, their reporters do it every day, and in a vastly more dishonest way than Juan ever did on Fox.

The problem is that Juan not only expressed the occasional opinion that challenged liberal orthodoxy (his dead-on views about the damage that inner-city 'culture' causes the black community really must have made 'em squirm), but he also went on the dreaded Fox News to say these things. They were just dying for an excuse to can him - but in the process have revealed the ugly streak of bias that lurks beneath their news process.

[GeronL]

NPR runs opinions all the time, they had an article on their website smearing the “tea bag movement” just today I think.

[Question Liberal Authority]

They just now discovered Juan was a "pundit" on Fox for the last gazillion years?

And before that he was a pundit on the McLaughlin Group for a zillion years.

Does this mean that nobody who appears as a political pundit on any station anywhere can no longer appear on NPR? Nobody who has ever been on Meet The Press or Crossfire or Washington Week In Review or MSNBC can ever utter another word on NPR again?

SWEEEET! It'll be the guys from Car Talk 24/7. Just like it always should have been.