I only listened with 1/2 an ear to this morning's report on today's "delayed adulthood" (ie, later permanent career choices, marriage, child bearing), but I don't think that economic and financial factors were addressed at all (... were they?). NPR typically overlooks the real-life economic reality of most Americans outside of the upper-middle and professional classes (I know, obviously).
[Also, I was annoyed with the interview with Nichols/Hanks on Charlie Wilson's war, but that is probably just annoyance with the propaganda aspects of the book and movie itself]
I dread hearing any rebuttal on how the All Thinktanks Considered romper room addressed the protest/riot in NOLA today. And dammit, I ain't gonna listen to their radio gaga this close to Christmas - doing so in past years made me feel like such a loser.
Also of note: Daniel Zwerdling's story on "Mental Anguish and the Military" has won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University 2008 News Award.
But I can't shake the thought that the entire organization is being self-congratulatory about it just by mere association; patting themselves on the back as if to say "oooh, we're good we're just soooo good! In everything we do!"
My name is Matthew Murrey and I'm from Florida, but have been living in the Midwest since 1984. I started this blog because no one else was blogging NPR's drift toward the right - and it made more sense than yelling at the radio.
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I only listened with 1/2 an ear to this morning's report on today's "delayed adulthood" (ie, later permanent career choices, marriage, child bearing), but I don't think that economic and financial factors were addressed at all (... were they?). NPR typically overlooks the real-life economic reality of most Americans outside of the upper-middle and professional classes (I know, obviously).
[Also, I was annoyed with the interview with Nichols/Hanks on Charlie Wilson's war, but that is probably just annoyance with the propaganda aspects of the book and movie itself]
I dread hearing any rebuttal on how the All Thinktanks Considered romper room addressed the protest/riot in NOLA today. And dammit, I ain't gonna listen to their radio gaga this close to Christmas - doing so in past years made me feel like such a loser.
Also of note: Daniel Zwerdling's story on "Mental Anguish and the Military" has won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University 2008 News Award.
But I can't shake the thought that the entire organization is being self-congratulatory about it just by mere association; patting themselves on the back as if to say "oooh, we're good we're just soooo good! In everything we do!"
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