Anderkoo

It’s not just Big Bird Haters
who think that PBS and NPR are a haven for lunatic liberals. In
the past few years I (and I’m speaking as a lunatic liberal here) have
found WBUR’s On Point
notably partisan. Tom Ashbrook relies far too heavily on prompting his
guests, “How about that?” to keep the conversation going without
betraying any knowledge of the subject. But the real problem is his
guest pundit and liberal lap-dog, Jack Beatty, whose uninformed opinion-spinning and tendency to twist any topic into an attack on George W. Bush makes him (and his Atlantic Monthly) a cornerstone of the reactionary left.

I mention this now because WBUR, apparently struggling to make ends meet, has been forced to cut back its programming and took the axe to The Connection. Now The Connection
may not be what it was in its Christopher Lyden days, but the show is
at least unemcumbered by a partisan hack sidekick. If WBUR had to find
some way to save money, why not sack the apparently underemployed Atlantic Monthly editor?

A final thought: searching for “WBUR” on Google puts The Connection one rank ahead of On Point.

(For the record: I am a card-carrying, dues-paying WBUR member.)