‘National’ Public Radio’s Local Franchises

March 24, 2011

If you want a new Cadillac, you can’t go to the General Motors website and order one from the factory. You have to go to a franchised dealer. And if you are driving your Cadillac on a lonely stretch of Interstate and you want to get your evening news from National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, you can’t tune your satellite radio to its NPR channel and listen. Satellite offers …

When Reporters Enter The Story, It’s Bad News

November 1, 2010

There was a time when news reporters did their job by interviewing sources. They competed with one another to be first on the street with the biggest news. These days, reporters often interview other journalists — a practice that is often pointless and sometimes destructive, as the recent row between NPR and its former “news analyst,” Juan Williams, vividly demonstrated. At NPR, Williams was supposed to provide objective interpretation of …

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