"Well, they exist. Isn't that reason enough? "

Oh...OK, well never mind then. As long as they exist.

BTW PatdyM, how is this an infringement of free speech? NPR has standards that they hold their employees to, they felt he went outside of those standards. My company can do the same thing. It's got nothing to do with free speech, it has everything to do with corporate standards. You may not agree with them, but that doesn't mean they violate his First Amendment rights.

Maybe we'd better check with Christine O. about what the First Amendment really says, because it doesn't ever say "Free Speech". "Freedom of Speech", sure, but just because every single constitutional scholar says it means "Free Speech" doesn't make it so, just like that whole freedom of religion thing.