NPR Believes in Free Speech - But it is not appropriate for their Employees to have this right

The firing of Juan Williams from NPR over his voicing of his personal option when asked about it on a Fox TV talk show means that NPR will just now put in place more definitive rules on why they will fire people.

 

New rules (they will call them "guidelines" to have the appearance it is not really a rule) that all writers to their web sites, on air radio shows, on TV personalities and other contributors to NPR will have to follow:

1) All employment outside of NPR must be approved by NPR before you work for the other company and if you work for someone else without prior approval you are fired. This is also retroactive in that if you currently work for NPR and other firms or have a personal blog, twitter, facebook page etc you must ask approval from NPR to work or have these sites.

2) If you voice your own personal opinion on anything on air, in writing, in any public location that is capable of being recorded via audio or video you are fired

3) Any work done for others must be reviewed and approved of by NPR before anything is published or voiced or otherwise distributed by any means now or in the future possible and if you do not then you are fired. You are not allowed to be on any live show that does not have allow the capability of blocking your written or voiced comments by NPR before it is transmitted.

 

NPR is not stopping you from speaking or publishing anything if you work for them; they are only firing your from you job if you do not follow their rules . .  . they believe in free speech, but for employees it is limited if you want to work for them . . . . just another simple workplace guideline  . .  .