Anyhow... on to Andrew Sullivan....
AXIS OF BIAS: Lileks observes a moronic convergence: 11:50 NPR is running . . . the BBC.
Just to clarify...NPR does not carry the BBC. Individual NPR affiliate stations may choose to air the BBC, but it is not a national, NPR level decision. Just for the record.
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Unbelievable: NPR's top of the hour theme is somber, downbeat, with a few disconsolate snare drums - music to lose by! Is it too much to ask of these people to play something that doesn't sound like the music you'd use for the sinking of a f--king aircraft carrier?
Um, hello, does he want upbeat music for war coverage? What would he suggest, Shiny Happy People? I was working at a classical radio station during the first Gulf War, and we *always* led into news breaks with somber music[*]. If you're reporting on people *dying*, you don't want to have peppy music playing. War is a somber time. People die in wars. Wars are not upbeat.
I support this war. But gigging NPR because they use appropriately somber music is just plain thoughtless and silly.
Reggie Bautista
* We also kept a few CDs with longer somber pieces handy just in case of a major disaster to US and allied troops. In that kind of event, we were to put on one of these somber pieces and immediately call the Program Director, any time, day or night, for further instructions. I specifically remember the slow movement from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony and Barber's Adagio for Strings were two of the pieces we kept nearby; there were others as well that I don't remember.
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