NPR reports Tom and Ray Magliozzi are retiring this fall from the locally produced show that gave them - and their accents - national prominence.
"Car Talk" will continue to air, but only with repeats from 25 years of car-advice call-ins, recorded at WBUR's studios. Hopefully, they'll keep their Dewey, Cheetham and Howe offices in Harvard Square.
Interesting job posting from NPR says it's just set up a "Digital Services team located in Boston's Innovation District" to further bring John Boehner's favorite public radio network into the digital age.
Eeka writes NPR to complain about a piece on "All Things Considered" about bass fishing and gets back a form letter apologizing that her bass-fishing expectations were not met:
Funny, I didn't know I had expectations about bass fishing.
On Saturday, Dan Kennedy posted a serious, thoughtful piece about what he considers a serious mistake by NPR's "On the Media." But every time I read his headline, I get a case of the giggles: Bush's bulge reconsidered.
"I was naïve, I guess. I simply never imagined that any CPB chairman, Democrat or Republican, would cross the line from resisting White House pressure to carrying it out for the White House. But that’s what Kenneth Tomlinson has done." -Bill Moyers, on the conservative partisan reshaping of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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