earn your damn job title

I'm getting tired of many of the NPR programs. At the moment, I refer to my local news updates, and Talk of the Nation.  Fortunately, I don't hear the latter very often, but the format seems to be have on a few experts, let them state their case, then take "listener comments" without addressing any of the issues broached by those listeners.  Why the fuck would I just want to listen to a bunch of people sounding off?  Oh, right, because I want validation.  Y'know what?  I can get validation at a bar, or next door.  I listen to the news for insight and information, and hopefully a more elevated discussion.  So when the religious pastor says that he was a leading, vocal proponent of Prop 8 because "children deserve to have one parent of each sex," why didn't you ask him if he was going to create a constitutional amendment banning parental divorce? Or encourage abortions for any fetus about to be born into a single parent home? Why didn't you ask him if it was okay for same sex couples who don't want children to tie the knot? When the listener called up and bitched that "those people" harping on that one word, marriage, are tying up the courts in California while there are more important issues that need to be addressed, why didn't you point out that those people are not the ones passing the propositions and amendments, that those people would be perfectly happy to get married just like everyone else with no more legal pain than you get signing a marriage certificate at city hall? Wtf, Neil Conan?
And you're not off the hook, Minnesota.  There have been on the street interviews on MPR for the last few weeks, asking whether the Hausers should get chemo for their son. That's not the damn question.  The question is whether the state has the right to force them to get chemo for their son.

I know there are a lot of journalists out of work right now.  Those who have jobs should earn their pay.  And I'm sick of softball.  People ought to be challenged.  It's the only way we're ever going to learn anything.  Or is education just too radical an idea for the media?

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