Alicia Shepard in The Washington Post on the man who revealed Nixon's tapes As we mark the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in this week, Shepard revisits White House deputy chief of staffAlexander Butterfield,a relatively little noted man essential to the investigation that brought
Date: Jun 15, 2012
Category: U.S.
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NPR Is Collateral Damage in Battle to Brand Tea Party
He had every reason to fight back, even though Ron Schiller was not the target of James O'Keefe's video -- NPR was. But NPR didn't back him. It didn't back Vivian Schiller. And it didn't even back itself. NPR ombusdman Alicia Shepard admitted, flat-out, to Piers Morgan on CNN: "[T]hat Ron Schiller video is a big black eye for NPR."
Ron Schiller behaved recklessly and stupidly, no question. Shouldn't he have smelled a rat? How could his sniffer fail him so spectacularly? Why would he talk so unguardedly? As NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard put it in a post mortem, "We live in public. The mic is always on."
Date: Mar 11, 2011
Category: U.S.
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Activist's video sting brings ouster of NPR president
NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard resisted the notion that activist filmmaker James O'Keefe's video revealed a deeper bias, saying staffers there are angry at top executives' poor judgment in recent months. After checking with Ron Schiller to make sure his words weren't completely distorted, the ombudsma