Mississippi public radio doesn't like Fresh Air

The station director at Mississippi Public Broadcasting has dropped "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross from its lineup, citing "recurring inappropriate content.” It's a given the content is recurring, but inappropriate? A blogger called A Unitarian Universalist Minister In The South thinks recent programs dealing with homosexuality might be the cause:

Couldn’t possibly be the interview with Colin Firth regarding his role in “A Single Man.”  He plays the part of a gay man grieving the loss of his partner. The story line of grieving the death of a loved one is as old as the story of David and Jonathan in First Samuel of the Hebrew Scriptures. And it certainly could not be the movie review of Cholodenko’s “The Kids Are Alright.” That story line of parents dealing with their rebellious teens goes all the way back to Adam and Eve.  Oh wait, the parents are both lesbians. Nah, it couldn’t be that.

(found via Romenesko)

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4. When hit counts trump ideology. LAT