NPR is pulling itself farther and farther away from its listeners.

Last Saturday, I sent a short note to wesat@npr.org (the email address for Weekend Edition Saturday, one of the precious few NPR programs I still listen to); it was no big deal, actually just a wise-*ssed comment about something Scott Simon said on the program:

To: wesat@npr.org
Subject: Anniversaries…

Charlie Summers (who just couldn’t resist)

Ok, so I wasn’t asking for a response. But clearly, NPR has decided to make it d*mned hard for anyone to communicate to them any comments on their programming. Today (Wednesday), I received an auto-response from NPR saying, in part:

We are no longer using WESAT@npr.org for the show’s listener mail. Now, ALL correspondence must go through our Web site!
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