NPR and Juan Williams being fired.

I think that what he said definitely hurt his chances to work over at NPR, especially nowadays when everyone is scared to voice their own opinions due to backlash and people are afraid of what will happen if they do voice it and get in trouble. While NPR had every right to fire Juan Williams, how they proceeded to fire him could be seen as cowardly. He spoke to Bill O Riley and then a few days later via email, he gets fired. They wouldn't even let him in the building to let him speak to whoever fired him. I think they could have handled his firing in a better way by having a meeting with him and discussing on what he did wrong, maybe not fire him but give him a warning of sorts. Now I know people complained, but eventually it will die down and someone else will say something similar if not something worse and the public will turn their outrage to that person. NPR definitely overreacted and if they had someone in the shadows who back them via with money or sponsorship, then they had their pockets in mind rather then their own employees. The conflict here is that Mr. Williams expressed his own opinion about being on an airplane and seeing Muslims in garb and being nervous in the possibility that they would blow up the plane. In a pre-9/11 world as well as with the recently foiled attempts of the car bomber, people started to complain about what he said as well as congratulate him as well. Very blurred lines are being crossed here, it would be very interesting to see how this all unfolds. I would have probably not said anything at all, or if i absolutely had to, express it in a way that shows that it's not my own opinion its that of everyone else.