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This weird, evangelical kind of move. it's been hijacked by this group. and we are watching people, radical, radical, islama phobic, xenophobic -- i mean basically they are -- they are, they believe white, middle america gun-toting, scary. >> and the chief executive quickly condemned the remarks. >> the comments made by ron schiller are an affront to this organization and contrary to everything we stand for as a news organization. we stand for diversity of opinion and tolerance and open mindedness. >> but in the wake of her mishand listening the firing of juan williams, it was too late. quickl...

As a journalist, it made me angry, because the idea that journalists are anything but professional in the mean stream media, the three of us have personal opinions and biases, but we go out there and do our job, and what -- i work inside npr, and the anger is so palpable, and the anger at management and how this has tarred the people who -- like susan standberg, been there 35-plus years. so people said i spent 35 years of my life and this happens in one luncheon and he's been there 18 months. and one other thing, who speaks in public about how they feel to a complete stranger? >> at a business...

Change in our coverage as a result. the first is the internet, twitter, is immediate. so it is to tv news, what tv news was to the newspaper in terms of the speed much tof the. >> let me just jump in. speed aside, what has struck you about the nature of messages on twitter? i put in the tag, japan and getting 100 messages an hour. is there a different tone to those messages than you would get from a sort of, you know, professional correspondent? >> no, i don't think so, how wie. what you see is witnesses talking. a wonderful blogger/twitter at npr named andy carvin. his sign is acarvin. he is ...

Blaze for showing that even the full video was -- >> let's play that for our viewers. >> james o'keefe is not a reporter. the design was political, and he wasn't right about the public funding. the whole video shows that npr, first of all, doesn't get direct funding from the government. this is about public radio stations. they are the ones that would be hurt. they are the ones that get the money directly. so to say that npr doesn't need it, that may be one way of looking at it from npr's point of view. the funding is about the 900 public radio stations and the public tv stations. >> a video f...

>> really. >> that's what they said. >> so when he said really, that's what they said, he's reacting to something entirely different than what you see in the edit the version. >> when i saw this video, i contacted ron schiller and said is this true? yes, it had been heavily edited, and he said some stupid and sweeping things. you brought up other networks have done this kind of reporting. >> a lot less popular now because of the ethical concerns. "60 minutes" used to do it all the time. >> i'm not condoning it. i'm saying first of all, npr didn't take the money. >> that's not much of a defense...