Ok, I know, I go on about this a lot. And maybe I shouldn’t. But the whole thing is d*mned annoying, and I’m still fired up about it.

Last Monday, carefully timed to the middle of the day to avoid having to spend any more time at the office and dealing with no more of the unwashed masses than absolutely necessary, NPR’s senior vice president for programming Jay Kernis “explained” during a live webchat why he decided to can Bob Edwards. I have to tell you, there’s nothing whatsoever new in there…it was the same old, “hey, I know what’s good for you, so quit whining already” claptrap we’ve been hearing from him, albeit a tad cleaned up by the PR lackies at NPR, but if you really want to see for yourself, there’s a transcript available. (Watch it, though…NPR has also redesigned their website, forcing the visitor to turn on javascript unnecessarily to get much of anywhere. I won’t even go into their heavy use of CSS, which makes browser settings like font size and style useless…but lord, that’s a rant for another day.)
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