It's been awhile since I've tuned in to NPR, and this morning I am keenly disappointed in what passes for reporting and commentary on that netweork these days.
On Weekend Edition, I just finished listening to a report about Bu$h's meeting with Al-Maliki. Every word amounted to a statement that the purpose of the meeting was to reassure Al-Maliki that the U.S. continued to back him or would be there for him.
Daniel Shor's weekly blurb on NPR (via KQED-FM)leaves me both depressed and frightened. Much has been written in these pages about the decline of NPR, but I always have held on to the thought that people like Daniel Shor would never stoop to the "numnuts" level of non-reporting that many others on national media have sunk to.
But a few minutes ago, Shor was asked by the dreckhost of the show about Jim Webb's meeting with Bush, much-diaried on this website. Without more, lacking any context or effort at providing information about what these photo op invitations amount to, Shor simply said Webb rudely told the president that what Webb's [Iraq-based active-duty] son thought was between Webb and his son. That was it.
NPR is dead to me. And so is Daniel Shor.