The Washington Post came running to the rescue of its liberal friends at NPR on Wednesday on the front page of their Style section. Online, their book review by former Post media reporter Paul Farhi came with this promotional headline:
With NPR under threat, a colorful new history shows why it matters
Steve Oney’s engaging and deeply reported On Air follows NPR from its beginnings in the early 1970s to tens of millions of listeners per week.
This is just the latest liberal book on the history of NPR liberals. Farhi is effusive on how every penny ever spent on NPR is glorious:
As longtime journalist Steve Oney documents in On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR, a lively and engaging new history of the organization, it has been money well spent by the government, helping to create and support a national network of enormous value.
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