17 September 2019
NPR Navel Gazing
I'm listening to the Cokie fest at NPR on the news of the death of Cokie Roberts of breast cancer.
I get that she is a significant figure from the early days of the network, and certainly her passing should be noted, but the wall-to-wall coverage was excessive.
If it had been Sy Hersh, or Bob Woodward, or Carl Bernstein, there would have been a 5 minute appreciation.
I understand that a number of people at National Public Radio feel this loss personally, but you are supposed to be journalists.
Suck it up, and leave space for other news.
I get that she is a significant figure from the early days of the network, and certainly her passing should be noted, but the wall-to-wall coverage was excessive.
If it had been Sy Hersh, or Bob Woodward, or Carl Bernstein, there would have been a 5 minute appreciation.
I understand that a number of people at National Public Radio feel this loss personally, but you are supposed to be journalists.
Suck it up, and leave space for other news.
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Obituaries
1 comments :
She was a remarkably evil woman, so of course NPR would offer remarkably fulsome praise.
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