Summary NPR’s comment line was obviously troubled when it was shut down in 2016. But there had been no guidelines for contributions to it. Nor were significant corrections made when abuses began clogging the system. As the premier U.S. public radio news network I suggest that NPR should have taken on a generic problem facing […]
When NPR shut down its user comment line in 2016 it missed a major opportunity
May 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
A premature goodbye to Gwen Ifill, stellar journalist
November 16, 2016 by Leave a Comment
I was shocked beyond words to lose Gwen Ifill so early, so prematurely at 61. Quite aside from being a pioneering African American Gwen was a towering presence among journalists. It was impossible to determine what her political views were, because she was equally perceptive, candid, gracious but no nonesense with people of various political […]