Feral Beast: NPR cuts more reporters Day to Day

Friday, December 12, 2008

NPR cuts more reporters Day to Day

At a time of record audiences for National Public Radio, the programs Day to Day and News and Notes are being cancelled as of March 2009. It is being cancelled due to cuts as a result of the current economic crisis. The station, which lost more than 60 staffers recently, is soliciting donations even more desperately than usual in order to save the better shows in the NPR lineup. I figure $50 each should do the trick if we get hundreds of people to do it. Save Day to Day!!

People will soon find that without anything too link to or listen to, they will all be clueless. No news Blues.

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Feral Beast? Try Lemming

If the press were an animal, what kind of animal would it be? I’ve got my answer. A legion of lemmings, furry and well-intentioned, but ultimately condemned by their nature to follow each other mindlessly off a tall cliff, over the Paris Hilton peak or into the Invade Iraq crevasse. The words “feral beast” certainly wouldn’t come to mind. It’s not particularly accurate or particularly evocative. But that is how the departing British prime minister, Tony Blair, sees journalists: as malicious tormentors who have tried to tear him limb from limb.

--Gal Beckerman of the Columbia Journalism Review

“Journalism is a form of cartography,” write Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach of Pew. “It creates a map for citizens to navigate society. Inflating events for sensation, neglecting others, stereotyping or being disproportionately negative all make a less reliable map.”

"Journalism is good at solving small problems or taking small bites of a big problem. It’s not good at solving big problems." Adapted from David Simon, creator of The Wire.

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"The once idealized information superhighway has become a parking lot of error, misinformation, rumor and junk." Poynter Institute, advocating a broader definition of who is a journalist.