{"id":1116,"date":"2005-05-06T11:55:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T18:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/05\/sweet_smell_of_npr\/"},"modified":"2005-05-06T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T18:55:54","slug":"sweet_smell_of_npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/05\/sweet_smell_of_npr.html","title":{"rendered":"SWEET SMELL OF NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Sherman has a huge takeout in The Nation about National Public Radio&#8217;s transformation<br \/>\nfrom its countercultural beginnings to its current middle-of-the-road conservatism. <A\nclass=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20050523&#038;s=sherman\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;Good, Gray NPR&#8221;<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> cites much<br \/>\ncriticism of the network for its increased corporatization (in both funding and influence) and its<br \/>\npromotion of conventional punditry on the toll road to respectability. But there&#8217;s no mention<br \/>\nwhatsoever of the <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/05\/02\/AR2005050201503.ht\nml\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Bob Edwards debacle<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> or the<br \/>\n<A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20050501.shtml#99815\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>David D&#8217;Arcy affair<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. Sherman<br \/>\neven goes so far as to praise NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin, calling him one of the network&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8220;more incisive critics,&#8221; although in D&#8217;Arcy&#8217;s case he&#8217;s proved himself to be no more than a <A\nclass=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20050301.shtml#98119\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>corporate mouthpiece<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Sherman has a huge takeout in The Nation about National Public Radio&#8217;s transformation from its countercultural beginnings to its current middle-of-the-road conservatism. &#8220;Good, Gray NPR&#8221; cites much criticism of the network for its increased corporatization (in both funding and influence) and its promotion of conventional punditry on the toll road to respectability. But there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-i0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}