Why NPR Matters

Being overseas buffers me from some of the worst of the new style of politically biased news that has taken root in the USA - I'm thinking mostly about Fox News - the worst of the worst. There are other examples of news gone bad - on both the left and the right - but NPR is not among them. I've heard about the Juan Williams controversy over the past week but I hadn't been able to get a good read on the situation until I read this piece that my favorite journalist, James Fallows, wrote about it. It's well worth reading if you care about the state of our information infrastructure and our democracy.