Apparently the cuts hit the copy editor at USA Today, too:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/bus ... o/2810473/

all [sic] at the time of posting. I didn't even know NPR had a tits staff. Maybe if they did, they wouldn't be in this mess. Maybe they shouldn't have spent so much money on a new facility, but you know the ouroboros of radio, where you have to bitch about how corporate culture ruined the Good Old Days then bitch about how shitty the equipment was in the Bad Old Days before the corporate culture...and yeah. Guess you can't blame the ground-floor NPR people for wanting to live it up on someone else's money at the end.

I wonder if this will affect any of the on-air staff. They already got rid of Talk of the Nation, and I could see one of the Morning Edition hosts taking a buyout, since neither of them come to work on the same day anymore and Renee Montagne can't read copy anyway.

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Well, NPR is still good for some things. Hmm, let me see. I'm sure I can think of something.

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NPR News is more than a little overrated. I mean, it's generally my news source of choice, but from time to time their corporatist/Keynesian bias comes shining through (if anyone says "NPR is so left-wing," stop talking to that person), and it's anywhere from annoying to horrifying. I preemptively avoided them during the Syria thing, which presumably would have fallen toward horrifying. But as long as you're clued in to where their bias lies, you can navigate their coverage and come out of it more informed than you would have with other media outlets that require understanding bias.

NPR is not a synonym for public radio, though, and we are absolutely better off with public radio than without.

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I thought defunding NPR was how you fiscally smart guys were gonna balance the budget.

Ironically, subsidizing public media and the NEA are the kinds of things today's Republicans should wholeheartedly support. Public radio brings corporation-approved programming to underserved rural populations free of charge, and for all the sturm und drang about Piss Christs and whatever, most NEA money actually goes to making what can be considered very conservative art, like ballets and symphony orchestras, available to areas that otherwise couldn't support cultural institutions. Relative to the money spent on making new and exciting ways to kill people, you get a lot of bang for your buck (or your sliver of a penny, as the case may be) from subsidizing broadcasting and the performing arts. If running a little FM translator to air morning and afternoon news to Shithole Gorge, Wyoming, or trotting out some tired-ass Vivaldi for the good people of Pensacola constitutes an affront to all we hold dear in America, I'm forced to believe that the Republicans are against all information and expression and only want to blow shit up real good.

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