NPR note

Someone was editing a sound clip of the president today, and someone suggested "tightening it up". Tightening up a clip refers to cutting out pauses and "um"s which happens with almost every sound clip recorded for NPR. Someone else then said that NPR's policy is that you can't tighten up a clip from the president. That rule only applies to the president. You can tighten up the vice president, secretary of state, whomever. I asked, "Can you tighten up the Pope?" A reporter responded, "If God came down, you could tighten Him up, according to NPR. Not that you'd probably need to, though."