I'm Rebecca Lando.
I'm an award-winning writer, producer, and editor and upcoming cookbook author based in New York City.
In 2009 I launched Working Class Foodies, a cooking show that creates affordable meals from local, seasonal, and/or sustainable ingredients. Working Class Foodies is a part of YouTube Next Chef and airs on NBC New York's Nonstop Foodies.
I wrote, produced, and edited FilmFan, an award-winning weekly movie review show, for MSN from 2010-2011.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Yup.
We need to cut these things that aren’t constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.
Sarah Palin, on President Obama’s State of the Union address, to Fox News’ Greta von Susteren, Jan. 26, 2011.
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I said I wasn’t going to post about her. But THIS is infuriating.
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She’s not wrong that these programs are “on the periphery” and are “fluffery” (not a word, but whatever). She may be wrong that they should be cut. But not wrong that they’re not “constitutionally mandated.”
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The next 20 months are going to be a constant assault on any organization that brings truth to light. NPR makes sure its listeners are better educated on the world around them than almost any other US broadcaster; for that they will be crucified by those entities who rely on and trade in lies. Wikileaks is already under attack for doing nothing more than telling and disseminating the internally understood truth to those who had been receiving only spin. Art breeds culture, and culture breeds reasoning. Art has always been pushed to the edges out of fear because artists are fearless and revel in making statements about the world.
When your entire platform depends on ignorance, ignorance MUST be maintained at all costs. Anything less, and the whole house of cards falls.
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In case you didn’t know that I’m a total idiot, I present: NPR on FourLoko.
Background: A couple months ago, my best friends from college insisted that, if we could find some FourLoko in my neighborhood, we’d give it a try. I added the stipulation that whatever occurred as a result would have to be filmed and put up online; we had to hold ourselves accountable somehow.
Turns out, all FourLoko did to us was make us add a lot of curse words to NPR show titles. The dogs seemed to enjoy it, at least.
I am very, very sorry. To everyone.
Prairie Home Companion is also often subversive in a way many ‘liberal’ shows are not. It lampoons both politics and religion, without grossly insulting personal affiliations to either. It’s often characterized as a dumb show for hicks by those who have never heard an installment of The Professional Organization of English Majors, a running gag that makes The Daily Show look like it works in finger paints. And, it is probably the only Democratic-leaning show for white people where the word ‘faith’ isn’t used as a punch-line or a pander. As an alternative to how most shows work around God because it’s ‘difficult,’ Prairie Home works God in while very much acknowledging that it is ‘difficult.’
NPR hosts offer some alternatives to greeting each other that follows the CDC recommendations to cut down on viral spread. Personally, I hope the snap ‘n’ flick catches on.
via NPR
