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NPR Makes Self Look Really REALLY Dumb!

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Oscar Madison

LA Times said:
NPR's smart kids are picking on Kim Kardashian

Some NPR listeners' panties are in a wad after Kim Kardashian's 'Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!' appearance

...It wasn't anything Kardashian said or did during the segment that had public-radio patrons' panties in a wad; the fact that she was invited to spend a whole 11 minutes on the program was sufficiently offensive. ...

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...t-wait-dont-tell-me-wwdtm-20150618-story.html
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NPR's new ombudsman has been careful to avoid "investigating" NPR's own flagship news magazine shows. Instead she's been going after talk and entertainment shows produced by outside producers, and denouncing these shows for not following the rules of serious journalism.

This is her second rant on the Kardashian family. She also took those to task who refer to her now "stepmother" as Bruce, instead of Caitlyn, even when talking about the men's gold medal she or he won in the 1976 Olympics.

The ombudsman has been particularly aggressive in going after DC talk show host Diane Rehm (twice), who works for WAMU at American University (one of the station's "founders" was Willard Scott, boy, what the ombudsman could do with that).
 
Interesting how two people can read the same piece and have two completely different interpretations of it.

From what I could see, all she was doing was sharing the comments of listeners that she'd received in her email box. To me, it was completely tongue in cheek.

But truthfully, does anyone care what an "ombudsman" says?
 
In Colorado, an ömbudsman is a meditating manicurist of marijuana plants.

Next time I see my newspaper's ombudsman, I'm going to ask him why they run display ads for the local weed store with specials for shatter and wax*, but not even a lousy column inch for a Swisher Sweet.

OK, the battle cry around here was "regulate it and tax it like alcohol" but shouldn't we be advertising it like tobacco? All right, I'll be quiet now.
 
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