NPR REPORTERS STRIKE BACK ...

posted by James Reel

... but their bosses won't. That's the gist of complaints being reported in Newsweek and elsewhere. As I pointed out last week, what's crippling NPR is its craven management, and even NPR air personalities are going on record with similar complaints:

The journalists feel tarnished—and know who to blame. “Our problems don’t have much to do with what we do, but with the people who manage what we do,” says Robert Siegel, co-host of All Things Considered. “I don’t think we’re antagonists to Fox the way MSNBC is. We certainly seem to disappoint a lot of doctrinaire liberals who expect different programming from us.”

Go read the rest of the story. And while you're there, be sure to read all the way to the end, because there's a tidbit that puts the lie to the claim that NPR is a liberal bastion designed to turn the American public leftist: "In an NPR survey last year, 37 percent of listeners described themselves as liberal or very liberal, 25 percent as middle of the road, and 28 percent as conservative or very conservative." I don't know where the missing 10 percent may stand, but otherwise it sounds like a pretty fair spread.