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Too little too late. She should have been gone after slandering Bernie Sanders on the air.
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It’s time. Going to miss Ms. Rehm and Linda Ellerbee.
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She’s planning to spend more time sharing untrue Facebook posts.
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But who will spew ironbound braindead Beltway MSM CW to NPR listeners?
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About 20 years too late.
She really is insufferable.
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Only after she insinulated that Sanders as a jew might have divided allegiance…
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Diane has definitely NOT hit many wrong notes during her many years of broadcasting. She has been consistently fair to all sides and will not stand for guests talking over one another or just spouting the talking points. I wish her a long and happy retirement and I feel fortunate to have learned so much from her show.
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The fact that she refused to retire after her physical tool—her voice—declined significantly in capability always reminded me of the aging professional athletes whose physical tools decline to the point where they’re not truly competitive at a professional level. What would take somebody without her voice disability 15 seconds to say took her twice as long, and on top of that I never found the content of her shows particularly stimulating. Many professionals in the field of voice communications would have hung up the microphone long since and concentrated their duties on program direction and management. It’s unfortunate that she was afflicted in this way, but health doesn’t always cooperate with our careers. I’m sure her heart’s in the right place and it’s too bad she really stepped in it on the Sanders stuff.
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I agree. I think she’s a good egg in general and deserves to be judged by her entire career, rather than the (very) occasional wrong turn.
She does well with book authors but the Friday “News Roundups” are pretty hopeless.
I wish her well on her retirement and look forward to an improvement in that timeslot.
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(signed)
We love you Mom!
-D.&J.
The show “On Point” out of WBUR in Boston (host Tom Ashbrook) runs in the same time frame as Rehm on several hundred NPR stations. While not perfect, it is a far superior show with much more professional moderation, a decent range of guests and perspectives, and fairly intelligent conversation.
Like Rehm, they are two hours - the first hour usually has a timely and newsy theme/guest, and the second tends to be more cultural in emphasis (although sometimes also hard news in the second hour).
I was very happy when I moved away from DC to find that my local station (Vermont Public Radio) runs “On Point” in that time slot. Smart NPR stations would be wise to pick that show up as a replacement.
No shortage there.
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Comes on hereabouts a couple of hours after Rehm. It is better, but Ashbrook can sometimes be as frustrating as Rehm is all the time.
Yesterday was a prime example. He’s clearly shocked and horrified at the boundaries Trump has been crossing, and the cheering when he crosses him, and yet neither he nor his Beltway guests were able to even begin to grasp the truth that Trump’s entire schtick consists of nothing more than dropping the transparent facades of pretext that Republicans have heretofore draped over the exact same rhetoric. It is the MSM’s rules of the road whereby they would honor the pretexts and take them at face value and protest in shock whenever anyone pointed to the truth behind them that created the space Trump now dominates.
The MSM, NPR being chief among the offenders, has spent the last decade and a half stolidly giving the tissue of circumlocution and implausible deniability Republicans interposed between their message to the base and the press equal dignity with the truth. To look through the transparent veil and see that Republican officials and Fox News have, all along, been peddling the exact same raw, ignorant febrile fear and hate spewed out by Limbaugh and the rest of Hate Radio, or the wingnut blogs or the stuff that routinely flies out of the mouths of Republican state legislators and state party officials? Not done, not done, old boy. Not cricket, dontcha know. Rawtha rude, actually.
And so now, here’s Trump, stripping away that molecule thin layer of mendacious respectability that the MSM used as an excuse to shirk its responsibility to see and report the truth of what has happened to the GOP since the Gingrich Revolution. And in the face of that raw truth, called, at last, to their duty as journalists by the sheer lack of any place to hide from it, they simply go to pieces, collapsing into boneless heaps of ineffectual arm-flapping and hyperventilation. Paralyzed by the horror of what is happening and the enormity of their own responsibility for it, and, above all, unable to fulfill the role the purpose of the First Amendment freedom of press because, even if they could remember how, and even if their corporate masters would let them, to start doing that job now would be to acknowledge of the enormity of their prior betrayal of that responsibility.
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