Another NPR shuffle: Michele Norris stepping down from ATC anchor chair

[Recursion]

Michele Norris will still continue to report during her temporary break from hosting All Things Considered.

Michele Norris, the co-host of NPR’s flagship All Things Considered program, is stepping down from her post through the end of the 2012 presidential election because her husband has taken a senior position with President Obama’s re-election campaign.

NPR is stressing that the move is only temporarily and that Norris will not be leaving the organization completely. “While she will not be involved in coverage of the 2012 election, Norris will continue to report and produce projects for the organization,” NPR reported on its news blog Monday.

Norris's husband, Broderick Johnson, was also a senior adviser to John Kerry's presidential campaign back in 2004. During the campaign, Norris remained on air but did not do any political interviews or stories at the request of NPR.

Well, better than how the Simeone thing went down, but it kind of seems to have a pollyannaish view of DC: hell, Matalin and Carville worked for opposing campaigns while married to each other. That's just how this town works. Or at least how it used to; maybe this is part of how things are broken.

Meanwhile, a sitting Supreme Court Justice's wife's lobbying for a firm with business before the Court barely raises eyebrows.

[RufusTFirefly]

1. "the move is only temporarily"?

Does any Web site hire copy editors anymore?

[Tsiyu]

2. Not many.

The sites hiring proofreaders expect you to pay them for the privilege of wading through their bad grammar.