David Roberts I've been calling NPR 'Nice Polite Republicans' since 2001.

Perhaps some kind of collar that would gently wake him when he starts to doze off?

#DonSnorleone

Why I found PBS's 'American Experience' doc on William F. Buckley so disappointing. prospect.org/politics/2024-…

This Slate piece by Alicia Montgomery rings far truer to me than the original 'J'accuse' broadside.

slate.com/business/2024/…

(I speak as one who has listened to public radio since the 1970s and have had numerous NPR / APM ties over the years.)

h/t Jay Rosen

Both Sides Don't is finally going viral.
Frances Langum
Driftglass, Guardian of Inconvenient History
youtu.be/wzHN_frxNFE?si…

Pro Left Podcast Ep. #795: There Is No More 'Debating' Trump.

driftglass.blogspot.com/2024/04/profes…

The only sensible thing to do with Trump's 'Gettysburg, Wow' speech in Pennsylvania was to make a one-minute documentary film of it. These are all his real words. I added some 'bing bongs' at the start. 'Never fight uphill, me boys! Never fight uphill.' #FunWithPhotoshop

The Internet is closed.

Jay Rosen Wow. I've blogged about NPR for 20 years and documented many examples of this sort of thing in their content, but not one current or former NPR staffer has ever come clean with me about it. Finally.

Degenerate old bomb-thrower doesn't like all these degenerate young bomb-throwers.

Galt's Glitch

It doesn't get any better than this. What a way to (almost) end the academic year.

Bob Cesca Mueller, She Wrote

Can confirm.

I wanted to do another quick thing about how media has managed to continue doing it even as the Republican Party has become a cult of personality led by a narcissistic sociopath. Again, my observations are based on my university’s empowering of a narcissistic sociopath…(1/X)

Peak Science Fiction Nerd Moment driftglass.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-peak…

The Case of the Comatose Combover.

Lawrence O'Donnell We were there though!

Acyn Donald Trump always talks about history (or, well, *anything*) like a fourth-grader doing a book report on a book he didn’t read.

Driftglass, Guardian of Inconvenient History you and Frances Langum have become the voices in my head! My first thought seeing this clip was #NoFairRememberingStuff