{"id":731,"date":"2009-05-04T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/04\/slamming-nprs-political-commentary\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T17:35:00","slug":"slamming-nprs-political-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/04\/slamming-nprs-political-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Slamming NPR&#8217;s political commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cokie Roberts takes a drubbing today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2216890\/\">in the pages of Slate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re vaguely conversant with current events, you&#8217;re already cruising at Roberts&#8217; velocity.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts doesn&#8217;t just voice the conventional wisdom; she is the conventional wisdom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jack Shafer, Slate&#8217;s editor-at-large, offers plenty of examples of Roberts&#8217; puffery and vamping. He suggests that it&#8217;s time for the NPR veteran to hang up her punditry cap for good.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Do you find Cokie more enlightening than Jack?<\/p>\n<p>And more broadly, what&#8217;s your take on the political analysis that NPR (and NCPR) bring to the airwaves?<\/p>\n<p>Juan Williams? Daniel Schorr? David Brookes and EJ Dionne? Ken Rudin? Whose finger do you trust on the pulse of your democracy?<\/p>\n<p>(Remember: thoughtful analysis and criticism are welcome; ad hominem nastiness will be met with gentle remonstrances.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cokie Roberts takes a drubbing today in the pages of Slate. If you&#8217;re vaguely conversant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}