When you sit back and compare journalism, ten to twenty years ago, to today you notice just how much it has actually changed. Journalists in general are more to the point and straight to the facts trying to get the news across in a timely yet, in a manner that comes across as unbiased and factual.
When it comes to Juan Williams, when he visited the O'Reilly Factor he was caught up in the commentary aspect of news reporting, and it showed. O'Reilly isn't a journalist, he spits out facts that he sees as true, and will try and sway your viewpoint on the matter into his side, to make him look more favorable.
The conflict in this matter is that an analyst, someone who just lays out factual evidence without showing any biased entered the O'Reilly factor and got sucked in as a commentator, and expressed his opinion, something that NPR is not about. Williams, quite frankly got caught up in the discussion, and while he probably didn't mean to share his opinion did, and in the end it cost him his job with NPR. Do I feel the firing is fair? No, sometimes these accidents happen, but do I feel Williams could of controlled himself better and been a little less biased, or worded his opinions differently to make it seem less biased.? Of course.
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