Why is NPR so effing bad sometimes?

I'm sure she had her agent send a DVD of Her over when she auditioned for the gig.

I've come around and like Zoe Chase now. Something softened in me and I now find her delivery endearing. Now I can't stand John Hockenberry and The Takeaway. Maybe it's because he sounds so much like Colbert that it makes it sound like he's taking the piss constantly, about any subject, serious or not. Difficult to sit through.

On a different note, still gutted at Bob Parlocha's death. Those will be hard shoes to fill. They still play the show through the night here, but I wonder how long that will last. Sigh.

next slogan: "shut up and listen"

Popes, Supreme Court Judges & NPR Hosts.

The apparently lifetime appointment of Scott "The Fighting Quaker" Simon is reason enough to despise NPR. Even George Orwell didn't see this sensitive voiced slaughter apologist coming.

"There Are People Under Those Bombs," his Weekend Edition editorial from March 2003 explained - sounds like a sensitive title, right? - why it was more humane for people in Baghdad to die by bombing. Listen if you dare. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1242591

Compared to Fox News outright bloodlust, I find Simon's nuanced explanation far more sinister. As he soothingly says, "Humane and bombing may sound incongruous in the same sentence, but the United States and United Kingdom have said that it is possible to wage war against a bad regime for the sake of innocent people. The bombing we watch is a target of opportunity to demonstrate that they value the lives of innocent civilians as much as those of Iraqi commanders they seek to shock and awe into surrender."

"a target of opportunity." Guy saw the bright side of everything, you know?

But those were idealistic days. What did Scott learn in ten years?

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/07/219702819/when-weighing-intervention-in-syria-consider-the-children

The media push for war in Syria a couple years ago --- it didn't work & so was quickly forgotten --- will likely get somewhat more scrutiny now that an amazing story has hit the mass media:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2015/04/16/nbc-engel-kidnapping/25878771/