Oh man I hope Terry Gross and Juan Williams are on the chopping block!
That Terry Gross, she’s aptly named, hayna? I live and work far enough out that my AM talk radio reception is weather-dependent, especially in the summer, and I often end up listening to, and yelling at, NPR while driving to and from work. Terry, though, almost never. She’s gotta have someone she dislikes to get me to stay tuned in. Her usual schedule of choppy, distracting interview questions to cable-channel sitcom directors and the like makes me want to dive into the radio & slap both of ‘em.
Some NPR programming is fascinating, but let the free markets get this sort of material to the logical outlets. I do not want to subsidize the “news” or state approved entertainment with my dollars. I may dislike, say, CBS news, but I do not have to buy their equipment and pay their staff...