MORE EXCITING PERSONNEL NEWS – AT 9:41 P.M. ET:  NBC News, striving for greatness, has put a new person on the payroll.  Can you stand the excitement?  From WaPo:

NEW YORK — NBC News is hiring former National Public Radio chief Vivian Schiller, who left this year in the midst of a political controversy, to run its digital operation.

Schiller resigned under pressure as NPR president and CEO earlier this year after a conservative activist caught a former NPR fundraiser calling the tea party movement racist. NPR’s management was also criticized last year for how it handled commentator Juan Williams’s firing.

I guess she's being hired for her judgment.

What a little world the mainstream media has become.  You'd think NBC News, with all the potential employees available to it, would avoid someone who could not deal with news bias at her former home.  One must assume that news bias does not much bother those who made this historic personnel decision.

At least now we have the internet, and we are not dependent on the intimate club within mainstream journalism.

June 2, 2011