Which NPR Employee most desperately needs to be "refreshed"?

[Plaid Adder]

Poll question: Which NPR Employee most desperately needs to be "refreshed"?

Was just over in LBN and found out that NPR is canning Bob Edwards as part of its overall attempt to "refresh" its programming. Bob Edwards? I can think of MANY other NPR employees that more richly deserve to be on the chopping block. Which one would YOU fire in Bob Edwards' stead?

[sendero]

1. Unfortunately...

... for whatever reason NPR has lost its way. The problem is probably not originating from the on-air people, it's coming from higher up.

And I doubt that they will ever recover.

[Westegg]

2. Scott Simon's endless "chuckle" sets my teeth on edge...

Hey Scott? It ain't that fuckin' funny, dude!

[indigo32]

3. Juan Williams

but are they really getting rid of Bob Edwards? That pisses me off. He's the least of their worries.

[foo_bar]

6. bring back Ray Suarez!!

[pscot]

15. Suarez has picked up some bad habit on Lehrer's show

He's now almost as mealy-mouthed as Lehrer himself.

[Frank_Person]

4. That condesending right wing freak Cokie!

"Look" this and "look" that! Fu*k you! Don't scold me Cokie you bitch.

[Frank_Person]

5. Bob Edwards while an OK personality...

tends to mumble mid sentence and I can only hear a few words here and there.

[BeatleBoot]

9. For me, he's "coffee with cream in the morning"

NPR is probably being pressured by the Repuke Congress is my guess...

[BeatleBoot]

7. Mara

now that she's on FAUX News

[xchrom]

8. i don't know who to pick!?!?

i'm so confused.
i want to can all of them -- i know cokie will win this poll -- so who else, mara? i can't abide her either -- i'll take suggestions.

[Snow]

10. I don't think I'd dump Scott just yet - we've been giving him a

beating in Friends' Journal. Scott is a Quaker, and has written several short articles in Friends' Journal attempting to justify removing Sadam. We aren't letting him get away with it.

[NC_Nurse]

11. My husband always

calls him "Ball Backwards" because that's what it sounded like he was saying! I'll miss ole Ball!

[Supormom]

12. Juan Williams

[enough]

13. Juan Williams again (nt)

.

[CBHagman]

14. Cokie Roberts needs to be sent on her merry way.

As Henry Higgins would say, "Throw the baggage out!"

[greekspeak]

16. Cokie should go

I get tired of her using NPR to shill for the right, especially Shrub. She should change her name to Shilli Shillerson. And her condescending, patronizing banter with Bob Edwards makes my stomach turn. I wish they would just stop sugar coating it.

Edwards: So Cokie, what kind of BS are you going to feed the audience today about the Republicans.

Shillerson: Look, bob. Bu$h is an infallible, heaven-sent angel. Look, The mean old democrats are just grumpy, hell-borne demon spawn that want to keep St. George from his appointed duties. Look, Bob, why don't we all just make George the Infallible and the Republican party leaders for life.

Edwards: Thanks for summing that up Shilli.

:puke:

[cmf]

17. I voted for Cokie

But Juan Williams comes in a close second.

[smirkymonkey]

18. National Pentagon Radio??

Hardly worth listening to anymore. Don't need the aggravation.

Oh, yeah - I would also say Cokie Roberts.

[mantis49]

19. Juan Williams

I accidently clicked all the above when I meant to click Other.

[West Coast Democrat]

20. No contest. Cokie

she's horrible

[AP]

21. I've heard some partirculary bad reporting by Eric Westervelt

Perhaps he's their future Cokie Roberts



Correspondent Eric Westervelt covers national security and military affairs for NPR's Foreign Desk. Eric reported from Iraq three times in 2003 covering the ground combat, the ongoing attacks on U.S. forces and the struggle to rebuild the country after the U.S. overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

On his first trip to Iraq, Eric traveled in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle with a mechanized infantry unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade Combat Team. The 2nd Brigade often led the Division's fight into Iraq, and captured Baghdad in early April. Eric's reports from the front lines were heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition as well as Talk of the Nation, and within NPR's hourly newscasts.

Eric's work covering Iraq helped NPR win one of broadcasting's highest honors - a 2003 Columbia duPont Silver Baton for coverage of the war.

[AP]

22. Steve Inskeep is another one whose reporting I don't like

Keep an ear out for him.



Steve Inskeep is the weekend host of All Things Considered. He has held the position since October of 2002.

Inskeep has covered major stories since his first full day as an NPR reporter, when he traveled into the snow of New Hampshire for the 1996 Presidential primary. In the years that followed, NPR assigned him to cover air disasters, the United States Senate, and the 2000 Presidential campaign of George W. Bush. On one of history's most unusual election nights, Inskeep filed live reports for 20 straight hours from Bush headquarters in Texas. Several weeks later, he was in the room as Florida officials certified Bush's victory, and he reported from Washington on the night that Al Gore conceded defeat.

His overseas reporting began in 1999, when he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism, and traveled to Colombia to write about that country's civil war. Later, he was named NPR's Pentagon correspondent, and joined an award-winning team that covered the Kosovo bombing campaign.

[phaseolus]

23. Unleash Peter Overby!!!

Great reporting, and perhaps one of the most important beats:

"Peter Overby has been taking NPR listeners behind the scenes of American politics, where the money is raised and deals are made, since 1994.

In 2002, he received an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, one of the highest honors in broadcast news, for reporting that "set the bar for stories about money, power and political influence." "

They could easily give him a whole hour every day... IMHO they don't use him as much as they should.

Since they're "freshening", I really hope they don't turn everything into a clone of that new mid-day show (which I think is called "ain't we a couple of hipster 38 year old journalists" or something...) It's pretty craptacular.

And no matter how many people they freshen out of existance, as long as Nina Totenberg is employed at NPR, I'll be listening.

[AngryAmish]

24. Them all

Why would anyone listen seriously to the RW hate machine that is NPR?

[kodi]

25. the BS 3: cokie roberts, juan williams, mara liasson

there was a time when each was fairly objective in reporting. it is no longer true.

they have become celebrities and exhibit a bad feature for journalists; all too often they act bigger than the story and inject their personal, subjective twist on the reporting.

ed morrow would beat the shit out of them