Surprise! NPR Doesn't Like Fox & Talk

Writing on NPR's web site, the network's ombudsman, Jeffery Dvorkin, let this slip into his musings on why he's getting more stridently negative e-mails:

AM talk radio and cable television slugfests have given many the sense that this is what journalism should be. It isn't. Opinions -- even strong opinions -- are necessary and important. But opinions without facts only leave us intellectually and informationally impoverished.

He raises some interesting points about the presumed annonymity of e-mail vs. snail mail, and Dem frustration because they "feel that the media was unwilling or unable to stop Bush's ascent to victory." [Does it seem to you that "unable" implies that despite their protestations, Lefties know the media is skewed-left?]

But the fact of the matter is that when someone comes this close to calling information sources like Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager and Brit Hume fact-free and "intellectually and informationally impoverished," it just might raise a rankle or two. (Hat tip Lost Remote)