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"They Killed Snowball! Those Bastards!!" (12/26/2004)

ased on comments on my original post, at Atrios, AMERICAblog and other blogs that also linked to my post, a number of people have said that they heard the uncensored version of Santaland Diaries on their local NPR affiliates. And many of them would have heard it because This American Life from WBEZ ran the entire, uncensored version on its show for December 24-26.

But This American Life is a Public Radio International production, not an NPR production. Some NPR affiliates (like WAMU in DC) air it, while other NPR affiliates (like WETA in DC) do not. So my claim that NPR censored Sedaris for the first time this year stands.

A troll dropped by on the original post to comment that the Snowball excerpt never should have aired in the first place because it was inappropriate. But we all know that trolls hate elves, principally because elves get laid and trolls don't.

Replies: 3 Comments

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on Sunday, December 26th, Dmae Roberts said:

I think it's important to note that This American Life is a Public Radio International program, not an NPR program. These are two different networks in much the same way ABC and NPR are two separate entities. If some stations aired the David Sedaris story in the uncensored form then it was the choice of the individual station not that of the network.

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on Wednesday, December 29th, YoHomie said:

Sexuality has no place in stories about Santa Claus, even if it's hetero-sexuality. Get over it, folks.

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on Wednesday, December 29th, editor said:

"Sexuality has no place in stories about Santa Claus, even if it's hetero-sexuality. Get over it, folks."

So I assume you'd also ban the song, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"?

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