This morning, I was driving the elementary school car pool, and my tactic of choice was playing classical music. This may have made the five children a little less wild, but it didn’t lull them into a reverie.

Right after 8 o’clock, between Beethoven’s First Symphony and a symphony by Frederick the Great, WETA, D.C.’s National Public Radio affiliate, cut away to two news segments from NPR News. The news items, through subtle but undeniable sins of omission, reminded me of why I resent my tax dollars funding NPR.