NPR Faces More Criticism Over Diversity: A year after NPR's controversial firing of Juan Williams, Joel Dreyfuss, a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists, is charging that the network still has a huge "diversity problem."
In an open letter to the network's new CEO, Dreyfuss praised Gary Knell for for his reaction to the political fallout of a tumultuous year, but warned that that NPR's management and staff are still overwhelmingly white.
"Don't mistake the fiery exit of Williams as just a nasty personnel matter gone nuclear," he wrote. "His departure was a sad commentary on the monochromatic vision of many liberal institutions -- a disease that NPR has not escaped."
