Senator Chuck Grassley and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin: A match made in GOP Heaven.
Brooke Gladstone opens up this week’s “On the Media” with the following lines: You know, most weeks, we could say something about Fox News (like Bill O’Reilly’s show stalking critics with camera crews, for example), but usually we don’t. Partly because Fox News won’t talk to us, partly because – well – it gets boring.
luna715/Flickr Bad news folks – looks like the socialists are going to take away our guns. At least that’s the fear that’s caused a bit of an ammo shortage in the U.S. since the election of President Barack Obama. Which is, I think, hyperbolic. But I think it’s fair. If you care about your right [...]
I knew this particular bit of bad news was coming; Scripps has been trying and failing to sell the ailing Rocky Mountain News since December. Scripps has been suffering huge losses at the paper. I say that I saw this coming, but the actual announcement of the closing comes as something of a suckerpunch. The [...]
This one’s for the official Radio Sweethearts After School Makin’ Kidz Grumpy Club. It seems there’s a debate out there as to whether schools should be included in the economic stimulus package currently before the Senate. I’m having some serious trouble, I have to admit, following the entire debate – as far as I can [...]
Everyone, by now, knows about the plane that went down in the Hudson river this afternoon. It’s worth mentioning that immediately upon the event happening, Twitter exploded with conversation about the plane crash. The Twitter reportage – started, for all intents (and from my vantage point), by your friend and ours, Laura Conaway, via @planetmoney [...]
Welcome to 2009, brave Time Explorers. You have arrived in a challenging and desolate time for finding your most coveted resource: new episodes of NPR’s “On the Media.” Friday’s episode would have required Brooke and Bob to be present during New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in order to produce a truly new and [...]
A long time ago, I made a solemn oath. “Every time news reflects stupid internet videos,” I swore, “I’ll make a blog post about the news, while posting the video, even if I’ve already posted it.” Except that I never made that oath. But there’s no real shame in acting in accordance with it anyway. [...]
More bad news from NPR today. Not all of it had to do with a certain Michigan-based industry I currently have little sympathy for – NPR itself is laying off employees and canceling more programs. “News and Notes” and “Day to Day,” as well as a large percentage of NPR West staff, are the main [...]
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Apparently Bill O’Reilly ran out of ideas. He went fishing though NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me,” looking for clips of Obama advisor David Axelrod making a fool of himself. It’s clear that O’Reilly isn’t a dues-paying member of his local public radio station, even if just for the classical music that I’m pretty sure [...]