From The New York Times: Different Morning Newscast for Public Radio Listeners

From the article: “The New York public radio station WNYC is teaming up with the distributor Public Radio International to produce a national morning radio program that will compete with National Public Radio’s long-running and popular ‘Morning Edition.’ Also participating in the not-yet-named program are the BBC World Service, New York Times Radio and WGBH, the Boston public radio station. BBC correspondents and reporters and critics for The New York Times are to provide on-air reports for the live news program and take part in what is expected to be its more informal, conversational format.”

It’s about d*mned time someone took on the NPR tail-that-wags-the-pubrad-dog. NPR itself is putting together a competing morning news show (probably more to muddy the waters here in a desperate attempt to keep news programming to itself), in effect admitting they have a problem with Morning Edition. That isn’t news to those of us on the outside…but then, I shouldn’t talk, I guess. I haven’t listened to NPR’s morning program since 2004, prefering to get my news and analysis elsewhere.