{"id":46,"date":"2005-07-15T22:57:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2005\/07\/15\/wbur-cuts-the-wrong-show\/"},"modified":"2005-07-15T22:57:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-16T02:57:14","slug":"wbur-cuts-the-wrong-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2005\/07\/wbur-cuts-the-wrong-show\/","title":{"rendered":"WBUR cuts the wrong show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not just Big Bird Haters<\/a>
\nwho think that PBS and NPR are a haven for lunatic liberals. In
\nthe past few years I (and I’m speaking as a lunatic liberal here) have
\nfound WBUR’s On Point<\/a>
\nnotably partisan. Tom Ashbrook relies far too heavily on prompting his
\nguests, “How about that?” to keep the conversation going without
\nbetraying any knowledge of the subject. But the real problem is his
\nguest pundit and liberal lap-dog, Jack Beatty<\/a>, whose uninformed<\/a> opinion-spinning and tendency to twist any topic into an attack on George W. Bush makes him (and his Atlantic Monthly<\/span>) a cornerstone of the reactionary left.<\/p>\n

I mention this now because WBUR, apparently struggling to make ends meet<\/a>, has been forced to cut back its programming and took the axe to The Connection<\/span>. Now The Connection<\/span>
\nmay not be what it was in its Christopher Lyden days, but the show is
\nat least unemcumbered by a partisan hack sidekick. If WBUR had to find
\nsome way to save money, why not sack the apparently underemployed Atlantic Monthly<\/span> editor?\n<\/p>\n

A final thought: searching for “WBUR” on Google<\/a> puts The Connection<\/span> one rank ahead of On Point<\/span>.\n<\/p>\n

(For the record: I am a card-carrying, dues-paying WBUR member.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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