It’s fun to make fun of National Public Radio.<\/p>\n
The upper-middle-class white liberal bias; the pretentious production style; the air staff’s frequently sloppy, mannered delivery; the unearned condescension to all other media; if you’re a radio person, the massive budgets and huge staffs combined with the often dismal state of practice of the radio craft; the complete inability to do a show off-script (listening to NPR reporters trying to ad-lib on the morning of 9\/11 would have been funny under less dire circumstances) – I mean, Terri Gross is considered a brilliant broadcaster because…<\/p>\n
…she can\u00a0freestyle an interview\u00a0<\/em>(or at least be made to sound like she’s freestyling after repeated cycles of NPR’s obsessive editing).<\/p>\n It’s fun to make fun of public radio:<\/p>\n