The heat got too hot for Vivian Schiller, who suddenly resigned Wednesday as president and CEO of NPR.
Her exit comes one day after the release of an embarrassing video orchestrated by conservative activist James O’Keefe that showed Ron Schiller, the public radio network’s senior vice president for development, making remarks that played right into conservatives’ argument that the organization has a liberal bias.
Though Ron Schiller resigned a week ago, in what NPR has said was an unrelated decision, the incident wasn’t the only one dogging Vivian Schiller.
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