NPR Check: Open Thread - Wednesday & Thursday

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Open Thread - Wednesday & Thursday

NPR related comments welcomed.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: I hope everyone gets a chance to listen to today's interview with NASA administrator Michael Griffin on Thursday's Morning Editon. I can't describe how mind-blowing it was - particularly when it came to his comments on global climate change. It was amazing.; 5/31/07, 11:31 AM
Porter Melmoth said...: Missed it. Good amazing or bad amazing? (Let me guess...); 5/31/07, 2:27 PM
Anonymous said...: Not NPR, but PBS related - the NewsHour Gwen Ifill interview of Should-Be-President Al Gore. Gwen's first question/comment: "The book reads like a screed." GAAAAHHHH. Objective journalism at it's finest right there. The rest of the interview wasn't any better; Gwen was in attack mode.

It was a true pleasure, however, to listen to a gentlelman able to speak coherently, politely and in complete sentences. The possibilities of such a different world had Gore not had the election stolen is so painful all over again.; 5/31/07, 7:32 PM
Porter Melmoth said...: Green, check out Gore on The Daily Show recently. Jon Stewart's interview with him was a civilized pleasure.
There's a link down the list at
crooksand liars.com; 5/31/07, 9:22 PM
Porter Melmoth said...: Here's the URL for Gore & Jon Stewart:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
2007/05/25/
al-gore-on-the-daily-show-2/; 5/31/07, 9:45 PM
Anonymous said...: Gwen never trated Condi like that. What's up with that?; 6/1/07, 9:51 AM
Porter Melmoth said...: Condi's in power, Gore's not.

I have admired Gwen a lot in the past. She seemed destined for greatness, perhaps as a political figure. Now I'm not so sure. She seems like yet another one of these public broadcasters to be strangely more ambivalent than I thought they were. At least at Neocon Public Radio I know where things stand now!

Also, certain topics today DESERVE having a screed slapped on them. Gore is entirely correct in his thesis. I don't think he's at all intimidated by the media. Indeed, he's using it to his advantage. About time.; 6/1/07, 10:40 AM
Anonymous said...: Porter, you may want to check out the Daily Howler on Gwen Iffel.
And as to Michael Griffin, I e-mailed Elaine, who follows NASA studiously, and she wrote back that he's a fundie.; 6/2/07, 12:33 AM

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