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Jay Kernis
- The Full of Shite, jack ass, top idiot of the day month and year.
Offense - Replacing Bob Edwards as host of Morning Edition
Kernis is the Senior Vice
President for Programming of National Public Radio and evidently a
complete asswipe who represents everything that should disgust NPR
listeners. Jay Kernis personifies the starched shirt, meddling, over
managing, self important executive that is completely out of touch
with the customers of the company he's being paid to run and the
likes of which we would have thought NPR would be immune to. One
might readily expect
jackwads like this in places like the Bush White house or
Haliburton or Fox News or Safeway foods but not behind the scenes at
National Public Radio. Maybe when Ray Kroc's widow donated all that money to NPR she
was actually cutting their throats by giving them the means to bring
in Shite heads like this to apply cold, unfeeling, out of touch
corporate America business practices to a place like public radio
where that bullshite shouldn't be allowed to wash. Kernis evidently came on board after
years in the network news sector and "initiated a wide-ranging assessment of our
core programs to insure that they will meet the challenges of the
new era." The result of his findings was to personally decide
to replace long standing and much beloved "Morning
Edition" host Bob Edwards. What's he going to do next initiate
the removal of Vin Scully and Garrison Keilor? He attempted to explain his actions
to the Goliard with the following load of crap form letter.
"Bob is not leaving, he is being reassigned so we can bring in hosts with wide, fresh experience as NPR producers and
correspondents in the field. They've
reported moving, gripping stories from well beyond the walls of NPR
studios. Experienced both in covering news events as they happen and
in NPR's remarkable long-form radio journalism, they have brought
unique freshness and spontaneity to their NPR hosting. With their
leadership, we are embracing the challenges of our new era: to bring
to you both context and depth as only NPR can and to do so in a way
that matches the pace of news. As a Senior Correspondent, Bob will
join a truly great company of his NPR colleagues: Susan Stamberg,
Linda Wertheimer, Noah Adams, and Juan Williams. Each has been a
host in other times; each is making irreplaceable contributions to
NPR today. You will continue to hear Bob, not only on Morning
Edition, but also on other NPR programs. We deeply appreciate that
you care so much; without passion such as yours, public radio would
not succeed. Thank you for listening."
Uh, thanks but go get porked. We weren't listening to you, we were listening to Bob, who has
been a much enjoyed and respected part of our morning for all the
years you were over wiping bottoms and playing suck up at the networks. How
can you sleep with yourself and whoever it is you are in bed
with that drove you to this completely inappropriate and despicable
decision? Bob didn't want to leave obviously and nobody but you ever
imagined that he would depart, after 25 years of rock solid,
sterling, down to earth service, in any way but that of his choosing
and on any
terms but is own. To be called into some smirking vice president's
office and be "reassigned" like some downsized, dead weight
middle manager is inexcusable and will not be tolerated. Once we can
figure out how to protest this act without hurting the small
stations that carry NPR instead of the apparent fools at the top we
will get organized and do what we can to see that such senseless meddling does not go
unpunished and unreported. In the meantime Mr. Jay Kernis,
congratulations! You'll
have to settle for enjoying your ignominious status as being number
one on our Shite list and loathed and despised by millions of
listeners for which Bob Edwards was one of the few bright spots in their
morning routines.
What
can you do?
Sign
Bob Edwards Petition here
Relive
Bob's best moments with NPR here
Shite
list is a new feature of the Goliard where staff members and readers
alike may post names of people who have either committed some
egregious act against them personally which is deserving of public
mention, or are public figures which have fallen out of favor to the
point where a feature story cataloging their offenses is in the
works but is not yet complete and a brief preview is needed. It can
be seen both as a public forum for publishing names (and pictures if
available) of offenders and a preview of more in depth vitriolic
writings to come. Offenses can range from being the guy who drives
too fast in a school zone to being George Bush. We'll see how it
goes.
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