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Planet Money Finally Gets Enough Rope

I stopped listening to NPR's podcast, Planet Money, a while ago because I wasn't learning anything from listening to it.  Also, I found myself frequently annoyed by the cast's strangely dense affect that seemed to belie their apparent Chicago Boy bias.  The perfect example of that dichotomy came in an interview with, I think, Simon Johnson, when the interviewer, Adam Davidson, I think, compared the federal budget to a household budget (duh) and then asked if the government building roads wasn't Communism. Sigh.  Once I found out that Johnson, who actually is indispensible, started his own blog, Planet Money was off my playlist.  


All this to say that today Adam Davidson got hammered by the NPR ombudsman for the recent and infamous Planet Money shouting match/interview he did with Elizabeth Warren.  I'm glad I got off that train before the wreck.  It was easy to see coming.

on June 01, 2009 in NPR |

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Sounds like the latest corporate-friendly lunacy from the right-wing CPB BOD. Obama really needs to make some changes there before all those GOP hacks succeed in destroying NPR altogether.

Posted by: mick | June 02, 2009 at 02:23 PM

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