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…more often.

We’ve been having work done on our house. It started on Friday and is continuing today. I’ve been eating like a pig. The stuff’s right there and so…I eat it.

So, if it ever comes down to me working full-time from home there will have to be serious changes made in how I go about things and my self-control will have to get a boost…

I was doing my usual fast-pass on some blogs and came across a headline something to the effect of : “CPB names new anti-public-interest chief”. I wish I could find the link to that post. Anyway…

I have the title completely wrong, but the part that stuck out was what followed. It held out that notion that the new leader, Ken Ferree is a Bush administration puppet who has no interest whatever in the public interest and in fact has only administration-approved conservative propaganda to push. Please.

It’s not like the CPB has been some kind of bastion of all things American, Mom and Apple pie for lo these many years. I’m a fan of public radio and TV but one could hardly claim that it’s been impartial or right-leaning as a whole. So, I do what anyone would do: I watch and listen to the material that I want to and pass on the stuff that doesn’t interest me. I don’t feel like I’m forced to take in crap that I don’t like or want to hear, nor do I think that anyone else is forced to listen/watch the things that I do.

What always slays me is that notion that if the prevailing leadership of some organization shifts from left-wing to conservative, suddenly the constituency will suffer a mortal blow due to loss of democratic freedoms. For all the hand-waving about Conservatives being “intolerant”, this kind of overreactive post carries the same one-sided slant as the subject is supposed to be.

Let time tell whether or not you like what Ken Ferree does. Don’t let somebody’s paranoid post about the erosion of public-interest values stop you from seeing for yourself.

It’s your brain.