National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard is criticizing NPR’s coverage of  Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death. Too much coverage overall, she says, and too little Chappaquiddick.

In a column titled “Too Much Kennedy,” Shepard writes:

There was no doubt that Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts…

NPR’s  All Things Considered program recently aired an interview with Jeremy Renner, star of the movie “The Hurt Locker,” about American soldiers who defuse bombs in Iraq. During a clip from the movie, NPR bleeped out a couple profanities — swear…

U.S. Sen Benjamin L. Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland, has introduced legislation that would allow newspapers to operate as non-profits with tax-exempt status, like PBS and NPR.

His goal is to help local papers, not newspaper chains.

Cardin said in a press release…

Bill Lambrecht, chief of the Post-Dispatch’s Washington Bureau, writes in this morning’s paper that tonight’s presidential debate “offers John McCain perhaps the last opportunity to revive his lagging candidacy….”

John Dickerson of Slate.com paints tonight’s debate as perhaps McCain’s last stand:

“Wednesday night is…