Then again, it could be the hair

NPR Leader Out After Board Clash – washingtonpost.com — The back story is simple. The typical public radio station managers and owners are extremely dull-witted. This guy delivered them a huge audience and once they got the audience they wanted no new Internet-delivered content since it was perceived as competition. Apparently the NPR news blog was killed too. It will all deteriorate now. You watch.

People at NPR said, however, that Stern and the organizations 17-member board had clashed repeatedly over several of Sterns initiatives, including NPRs expansion into new media. Those initiatives often riled station managers, who saw them coming at the expense of serving the hundreds of public stations that pay dues annually to NPR.

NPRs board, which includes 10 members from station groups, declined to renew Sterns contract yesterday.