When you are having a tough day just stop and realize that there are people in this world – perhaps in Washington, D.C. – whose job it is to obsess, argue and probably scheme over how many minutes of an hour of NPR’s Morning Edition should be newscast and how many should be long-form stories.
The latest edition of Current.org goes into great detail about the latest changes and how they may alter the future of broadcast news as we know it. Inside NPR, reputations and careers may rise and fall on this kind of decision which should make the rest of us feel guilty about our petty self-indulgences.