There's a nugget of truth in the "they were looking for a reason to get rid of me because I'm appearing on Fox News" comment...

From NPR's story this morning:

"We value not the absence of opinion but the illusion of the absence of opinion," said Daniel Okrent, the former public editor of The New York Times [and not affiliated with NPR], who called it a conundrum for the modern press.

"I can't give you a conclusive position on it," he said. "What's the right way to go or the wrong way to go? I do know, once opinion comes into it, it gets to be very shaky ground."

Okrent said the danger is in having someone from a news organization that prizes studied neutrality appear frequently in another outlet that rewards contention and sharply defined opinion — like Fox News.
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It's that part of Fox News -- contention and sharply defined opinion -- "that's incompatible with being a straight news reporter and analyst. As the NPR CEO noted, it's not Fox per se, but appearing and participating in that Fox context.

~ Becky in Tucson