Sunday, January 24, 2010
Looking Ahead
Readers have probably noticed that my posts are averaging about 1 per week. This May will mark 4 years of writing this blog, and I'm looking to wind it down by that time. If any regulars to this blog - or those frequently critiquing NPR on its website - would be interested in writing for a group NPR Check blog that would supersede NPR Check, please email me. I'm thinking the new blog would look a lot like this one. I've set up a beta version at NPR Team Check.
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I hope you find a team. This blog is valuable.
I'm going to echo Magnafix; while I don't check in daily as I may other liberal blogs, your blog is simply INVALUABLE. It plays a truly vital role and I hope the new incarnation succeeds. Oh, and you should alert Glenn Greenwald that you're making this shift, I know he's a big fan of your blog and maybe he'll make a note of the change, and, because of his high readership, get more people onto your new project.
4 years of listening to NPR with a thoughtful, politically aware and critical ear is more than any mortal man can be expected to endure. Kudos, and kudos for doing it with panache.
Yeah, like why not - Moyers & NOW soon to go dark, Cursor long long gone but still sorely lamented, the retooling of BushCo as BushBro, the US Legislature up for the highest bidder, hack-punditry (coughNoPRcoughhackhock) eclipsing genuine journalism, tea-baggin' goobers posing as passionate protesters for a cause...
Jus' shoot this bunny & get it over with~
I'm making a not-so-brief cameo appearance here to offer my best wishes for... well, this blog, Mytwords, anything that NPR Check might become, and for all who appreciate it.
As a person who has totally ejected, deleted, and dumped NPR from his worldly existence, I can readily say that doing so has improved my life considerably. Thanks to other more worthier sources, I find I can be more aware, more caring, and maintain a saner attitude in the face of an insane world without the added burden, insult, or serious annoyance of NPR and all that it entails in my life. This is particularly important if one is going to be up to the task of facing what might be termed the 'challenges' brought on by the usual ominous developments of today and the future. (I dream of a future in which bunnies will not be euthanized due to Nationalistic Pentagonian Radiation!)
I no longer care if NPR has any redeeming factors amidst all the rubbish. That isn't the point. I know they will go on doing what they do regardless of little old me or not. Their time with me (or rather, me with them) has simply expired. Fortunately. And being out of the country for a time made the habit pretty easy to kick, too. The world is much vaster than NPR's version of it could ever be.
Which brings me back to this blog. It's a great institution, and I sincerely hope it can be sustained and emboldened in its noble purpose: to provide clarity, perspective, and truth in the face of the misused media organization we know so well.
Sorry to rattle on (I don't HAVE to apologize over at my Yakking blog!), but I just wanted to toss in my warmest of regards for this effort, and I continue to foster a hope that some day NPR will be transformed by it. I have long maintained that NPR as it exists today should be scrapped, but Rupert Murdoch is a bit stretched right now, so he probably couldn't snap it up, even if he wanted to. So, it'll be up to this blog or whatever it morphs into, and capable critics, to keep the heat on. Or maybe NPR will simply become irrelevant through its own devolution, and will just fade away into the ether of forgotten airwaves...
'bout time ya made an appearance, Port; was getting concerned. Will have to stay apprised on what you're up to (and what you're cinephiling) as the Yak elects to utter.
Here's to those good ol' days of pokin' all 'dem uNPR poseur reporter sumbeeches with a gleefully sharpened stick.
Agree with everything said here. MM, your posts constitute some of the best political criticism on the Web. I don't think it could possibly be the same without your intensive research and commitment to truth. But there are many brilliant and committed contributors here.
I do believe the blog has helped awaken many people, maybe even some at NPR.
I do believe the blog has helped awaken many people, maybe even some at NPR.
Definitely agree with the first part.
Not sure about the second.
AS I see it, there are two types at NPR: those like Adumb Davidson, Alicia Shepard, Steve Inskeep and Vivian Schiller who have downed the cool-aide and wholeheartedly believe their contradictory nonsense (and who could most likely not land a job as a real journalist, at any rate) and those who don't believe the propaganda but nonetheless stick around (and remain silent) because the pay is good (there is an apt word for the latter type).
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