Thursday, May 26, 2005

The assault on NPR

Tom Ashbrook, host of WBUR's "On Point," distributed nationally by NPR, writes an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe ...
When government media masters ask broadcasters to replace news with music, watch out. That was the Kremlin's way on bad days in Soviet-era Moscow. Days when someone important had died. Days when things had gone badly wrong.

Now, the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kenneth Tomlinson, is ushering in an era when National Public Radio member stations may, reportedly, soon be encouraged by the corporation to shift their programming from news to music. ...

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