John McIntyre
@johnemcintyre
Mild-mannered former editor for a great metropolitan newspaper. Lapsed Kentuckian. Flaneur. He, him. Typeface: Bodoni
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https://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/ 28-03-2009 20:04:24
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Great piece by baynardwoods, debunking Boss Hög's absurd moderate mystique for national audience. Let's hope follow up digs into his mind-blowing spiking of the Red Line (inc $1B in fed funds), Bmore's best hope for transformative change in a generation: baltimoresun.com/2015/07/07/bos…
To me the unwritten NPR story is this one. Asymmetry between the major parties confounded their both-sides logic. They couldn't get through to themselves well enough to sense what was needed. See my 2011 post, 'They Brought a Tote Bag to a Knife Fight.' pressthink.org/2011/03/they-b…
David Folkenflik The ending always seemed obvious- he pushes NPR to fire him, finds 15 minutes of fame as a martyr of the intolerant left/liberal media, and settles into right wing media someplace where he will no doubt find the journalistic objectivity and editorial standards more to his liking