My command line reddit reader

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib,json
a = urllib.urlopen('http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.json')
try:
    j = json.load(a)['data']
except KeyError:
    print "Reddit sucks."
    exit()
storieslist = j['children']
for x in storieslist:
    title = x['data']['title']
    URL = x['data']['url']
    print title.encode("utf-8", "ignore"), '\t', URL.encode("utf-8", "ignore")