Former NPR personality Juan Williams was fired in October 2010 for a politically incorrect statement he made on the Fox News program The O'Reilly Factor. Williams was discussing with host Bill O'Reilly his feelings about seeing Muslims on planes dressed in their garb. His remarks led to his firing from NPR and sparked a huge debate among some journalists and conservatives over whether Williams had gone too far with his comment. Juan Williams was an NPR news analyst for the Talk of the Nation program, which he hosted for ten years. years. During those ten years of reporting at NPR, Williams was no stranger to controversial comments. However, these comments were never made on his NPR show, they were made on Fox News – a cable television news network – where Williams also serves as a news analyst. Several statements he made to the station, including the alleged anti-Islam comment, brought NPR CEO Vivian Schiller over the edge. “The rules prohibit NPR analysts from making speculative statements or expressing opinions on TV that would be deemed unacceptable if uttered on an NPR program. The policy has some gray areas, they acknowledged, but generally prohibits personal attacks or statements that negatively characterize large groups of people, such as Muslims (Paul Farhi par. 7).” Schiller believed that Williams continually portrayed NPR in a negative light with his insensitive opinions made by Fox News. Some journalists agree with Schiller and oppose Williams' decision to reveal his "fears" on national television. Greg Sargent explains: “the fact is that the idea that you should be afraid of anyone who 'looks Muslim' is not reality, it's nonsense. He wasn't speaking a courageous truth or making a personal confession... middle of paper... "Juan Williams fired: The pitfalls of the 'insta-opinion' era." The Christian Science Monitor. October 21, 2010. Web. March 28, 2011. .Sargent, Greg. “Should Juan Williams have been fired?” Blog Directory - The Washington Post. October 21, 2010. Web. March 31, 2011. .Swerdlick, David. “NPR should have fired Juan Williams a long time ago.” The Root. October 21, 2010. Web. March 28, 2011. .Williams, Juan. “JUAN WILLIAMS: I was fired for telling the truth.” FoxNews.com. October 22, 2010. Web. March 28. 2011. .