Glenn Greenwald

NPR Ombudsman Want MORE Conservative Voices on NPR

[cross posted at NPR Check]

"I've said it before, and I will reiterate it. NPR is a mainstream news outlet." - Alicia Shepard, Nov. 2, 2009

How NPR Avoids and Distracts

[cross posted at NPR Check]

On Friday I was staying late at work and before leaving heard this promising start to a story on All Things Considered:

"This week, we've been reading a vivid narrative in the New York Times by the journalist David Rohde. He was held captive for seven months by the Taliban. He was moved frequently from house to house all over remote parts of Pakistan. And one detail in this story made us particularly curious."

Holy cow! I thought, NPR is going to allude to the three rather stunning observations contained in Rohde's articles which Glenn Greenwald so aptly wrote about a few days ago:

Film at 11: Irony not dead

WKJM calls out superciliati. It's actually a fascinatingly Neo-Broderite reaction: