MPR holds off on Slate.com show [LIBERAL MEDIA SHILL ALERT]

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 5/31/03 | Brian Lambert

[rhema]

Minnesota Public Radio will take the "wait and see" approach to Slate.com the radio show.

The marriage between Microsoft-owned Slate, one of the Internet's most reliable sources for reliable journalism and commentary, and National Public Radio was formally announced last week at public radio's annual confab in New Orleans.

Bill Buzenberg, MPR's news boss, likes the idea but says "Day to Day," as the one-hour show will be called, will make its Minnesota debut this July on MPR's Web site, not on KNOW-FM.

"We're going to evaluate it. Part of the problem is that we have what we think is a pretty strong midday schedule with Gary Eichten, the National Press Club and speeches. There just isn't a spot for it right now.

"Beyond that, while I have nothing but respect for Alex [Chadwick, the show's host] and the people at Slate, my experience says that no program comes out of the blocks fully formed. It'll take a while to develop. So our thinking is that while it's doing that, our listeners can sample it on the Web. I believe it'll eventually be a strong program."

For the moment, "Day to Day" is not planned to be interactive, as is "Talk of the Nation" (which Buzenberg, one of "TOTN's" creators, also wants to be careful not to dilute).

For the unaware, Slate.com is a must-read stop for anyone seriously scanning the Internet for information and points of view other than the usual hyperpartisan spoon feedings. From politics (William Saletan, Mickey Kaus and Michael Kinsley) to some of the best arts and culture essays, Slate.com consistently rewards your patronage. In that way, and in its literate demographics, it seems a natural fit with National Public Radio.

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[rhema]

If you could read the bold-faced portions of the editorial without guffawing, you're a better man than I. Author Lambert, who unfortunately may believe the stuff he's writing about media "balance," continues to set new records for benighted tendentiousness every time he puts fingers to keyboard.

[Free State Four]

If you could read the bold-faced portions of the editorial without guffawing,

I couldn't.

[glockmeister40]

Maybe we could get microsoft to buy all of national public radio and thus eliminate another abject waste of taxpayer money.

[rhema]

[from the editorial] . . .information and points of view other than the usual hyperpartisan spoon feedings.

i.e., every Brian Lambert column in the St. Paul Pioneer Press

[Drango]

LOL

[Drango]

NPR and PBS (and MPR) have been beholden to corporate interests since they left their starting blocks.

Yeah right...NPR/PBS are the voice of the evil corporations...LOL

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Minnesota Public Radio does very nicely for those well-connected to MPR.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Lambert is a skin bag stuffed with, well, you know what he's full of.

What else can I say but: Defund NPR, MPR, PBS...

[Valin]

one of the Internet's most reliable sources for reliable journalism and commentary

Stop it! you'er killin me!

[ChadGore]

Re:one of the Internet's most reliable sources for reliable journalism and commentary

It's just so not a true thing !