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terri gross doing "sweeps week" stunts?

i haven't bothered to listen to the interview beteen terry gross and bill o'reilly, but the response from npr's ombudsman is interesting:

"I believe the listeners were not well served by this interview. It may have illustrated the "cultural wars" that seem to be flaring in the country. Unfortunately, the interview only served to confirm the belief, held by some, in NPR's liberal media bias.

It left the impression that there was something not quite right about the reasons behind this program: Bill O'Reilly often loves to use NPR as his own personal political pinata; and NPR keeps helping him by inviting him to appear." .

what was most disturbing to me is that it was done right before the traditional npr "fall fund drive" and could be interpreted as a cheap attempt at a "sweeps week" style stunt. they don't seem to be shy about pimping the gene simmons fiasco during the fund drives. maybe i'm just being cynical.

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