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In the aftermath of the NPR’s ombudsman’s original post on Harry Shearer’s complaint, all of the principals involved are online discussing it in the open. Except one.
Every now and again, the curtain is pulled back on the newsroom of National Public Radio. NPR’s ombudsman does so today with the story of Harry Shearer’s complaint that he couldn’t promote his film about Hurricane Katrina on other NPR shows, because he had already been booked to appear on Talk of the Nation.
If a Quran burns in the woods…
Reporters for a Connecticut FoxNews station were sprayed with hornet and wasp spray yesterday, while filming a woman suspected of receiving beer from a beer delivery driver who later shot 10 people at his workplace.
Editorial cartoonists generally get a higher degree of leniency than other commentators on the nation’s editorial pages. But Mike Lester of the Rome (Georgia) News Tribune pushes the envelope on the issue of the mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.
Everything that’s wrong with the ‘get it first’ attitude of news organizations is on display in the Ted Stevens plane crash.