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...American could be swayed now by evidence less stark than body bags. The Left's prime prankster was engaging in classic browbeatery, in the bullying, exaggerated, often funny right-wing-talk-radio tradition. I wonder why the Left must always be modulated, so sweetly whisperingly NPR, when the Right has made its voice heard by shouting. And if you didn't care for Moore's hectoring as political discourse, think of it as a tonic or toxic dose of Reality TV. Tonight on "Fear Factor": contestants vie to endure a Michael Moore diatribe for five enervating minutes...
...When I e-mailed an esteemed colleague my thoughts about Moore earlier today, he wrote back with a reasonable defense: Why should a progressive like Moore have to be all gentle and NPR-nuanced when there are so many Limbaughs and O'Reillys out there? The reason: More people in America identify as conservative than liberal, like it or not. So lefties who want to accomplish anything outside Santa Monica and Manhattan need moderate support even more than their righty analogues...
...network, which once operated out of a cramped basement, today fills a sleek seven-story building with a lobby curved like a radio wave. Its studios feature the latest digital sound gear. Executives, if prodded, talk about "branding," "revenue growth" and "audience fragmentation." They speak such words softly--NPR is, after all, a not-for-profit organization whose member stations constantly beg listeners for contributions. But it's getting harder to keep its success a hush-hush affair...
After nearly going bankrupt in the mid-1980s, NPR is enjoying its best stretch ever, with a weekly audience up 48% since 1998 and revenues, in a flat economy, projected to grow 5% this year. As war and terrorism jitters create a hunger for more in-depth news--with little of it to be found on many commercial stations--listeners are turning to NPR programs and to public radio in general. Some 29 million Americans tune in at least once a week--an audience boost of 16% since the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001. Listeners are also attracted...
...reminded of my objection to the Oscars while listening to National Public Radio (NPR) one morning last week. I heard a report from Linda Wertheimer, who’d been dispatched to St. Charles, Missouri to gauge public opinion about the impending war. To NPR’s coastal audiences, I suppose this qualified as an exotic sort of anthropology; the opinions of St. Charles residents certainly sounded foreign compared to those you hear in Cambridge. Several of the residents of St. Charles told Linda Wertheimer that they didn’t oppose the war in Iraq. They supposed, they...