A Segment About Nothing

Having NPR on this morning reminds me that I've neglected to link to Jack Shafer's a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2216890/"classic piece on Cokie Roberts's NPR segments/a, which I woke up to (or, more accurately, tired in vain to wake up during) most of this semester and I think might actually be getting worse, starting from a point at which I wouldn't have thought that was possible:br /br /blockquoteI can think of no comparably sized media space that's as void of original insight and information as Roberts'. Her segments, though billed as "analysis" by NPR, do little but speed-graze the headlines and add a few grace notes. If you're vaguely conversant with current events, you're already cruising at Roberts' velocity. Roberts doesn't just voice the conventional wisdom; she is the conventional wisdom.br //blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-1329076405117163747?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div