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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: mountaineer on April 09, 2024, 07:42:09 pm
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I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.
Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.
By Uri Berliner
April 9, 2024You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite. It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley. ...
So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk where news is always breaking, we’ve covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI.
It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding. ...
Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump. As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly.) But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency. ...
In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population. ...
Read entire article at The Free Press (https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust)
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Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump.
(Lesbian, EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite) bitch please!
Your premise is flawed. the so-called "rise" happened way way before the Trumpster got elected. NPR has been advocating destructive idea's for over 30 years at least.
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This will come as a surprise to absolutely no one:
Senior Editor: NPR Employs 87 Democrats in Editorial Positions, 0 Republicans in DC Newsroom
By Wendell Husebø
9 Apr 2024
Breitbart (https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/04/09/senior-editor-npr-employs-87-democrats-in-editorial-positions-0-republicans-in-dc-newsroom/)
Far-left National Public Radio (NPR) employs 87 registered Democrats in editorial positions but zero Republicans in the same positions in its Washington, DC, headquarters, NPR Senior Editor Uri Berliner wrote Tuesday.
Berliner, who admittedly leans left, wrote a scathing article about NPR’s illiberal newsroom, slamming the taxpayer-funded network for refusing to address “a diversity problem” within the office.
In an article published in the Free Press, Berliner said he opposed many of the left-wing and perhaps false narratives NPR spun about the coronavirus “lab leak theory,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Hunter Biden’s laptop, former President Donald Trump, and the 2016 Russia hoax. ...
Taxpayer funds subsidized NPR’s budget by nearly 11 percent. ...
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More here:
All (Approved) Things Considered: How We Lost Our Way at NPR
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/04/09/all-approved-things-considered-how-we-lost-our-way-at-npr-n3786167
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I'd bet the Authoress will vote Biden this year. This is CYA bullshit.
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(Lesbian, EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite) bitch please!
Your premise is flawed. the so-called "rise" happened way way before the Trumpster got elected. NPR has been advocating destructive idea's for over 30 years at least.
888high58888 pointing-up
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"NPR":
Nothing but
Partisan
Rhetoric
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The article author has been at NPR ~25 years, so he does have in insider's view. I think, though that he does not realize that he is citing, to borrow an economics term, "lagging indicators". The audience shift is a consequence of - i.e. follows - shifts and changes in NPR content. This, similarly, is a "lagging indicator" phenomenon.
Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump. As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly.) But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.
Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.
Trump did not cause the hysterical shift into partisanship at NPR. The 2016 shift was because NPR "reporters" and other staff were already extremely partisan - that is the significance of "his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair," "I eagerly voted against Trump", and "truth-impaired president" - but they had not previously incorporated the full depth of their partisanship into what they broadcast and published online. Actual fairness and objectivity left NPR's building in the 1970s, if those qualities ever even entered it.
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I'd bet the Authoress will vote Biden this year. This is CYA bullshit.
Yeah...
But, admission is admission. That's a something.
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Yeah...
But, admission is admission. That's a something.
Admonishment would be better.
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Admonishment would be better.
Give him a kick, right in the hiney... I will applaud.
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I was in college about the time of the Clarence Thomas hearings. On my way to school, I was listening to NPR in my truck and they had a 15 minute segment about other women who came forward accusing Thomas of some kind of sexual impropriety. Not once did they say who was accusing him or what exactly the accusation was. I was left wanting. But, I have no doubt a segment of their audience ate it up without questioning it
NPR's slant goes back before Trump
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I was in college about the time of the Clarence Thomas hearings. On my way to school, I was listening to NPR in my truck and they had a 15 minute segment about other women who came forward accusing Thomas of some kind of sexual impropriety. Not once did they say who was accusing him or what exactly the accusation was. I was left wanting. But, I have no doubt a segment of their audience ate it up without questioning it
NPR's slant goes back before Trump
I worked at an NPR affiliate in 1977. They were whack then.
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NPR - a waste of taxpayer money.
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Uri Berliner will be out of a job soon. NPR employees will see to that.
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Subaru's are liberal cars? Asking for a friend? :whistle:
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The article author has been at NPR ~25 years, so he does have in insider's view. I think, though that he does not realize that he is citing, to borrow an economics term, "lagging indicators". The audience shift is a consequence of - i.e. follows - shifts and changes in NPR content. This, similarly, is a "lagging indicator" phenomenon.
Trump did not cause the hysterical shift into partisanship at NPR. The 2016 shift was because NPR "reporters" and other staff were already extremely partisan - that is the significance of "his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair," "I eagerly voted against Trump", and "truth-impaired president" - but they had not previously incorporated the full depth of their partisanship into what they broadcast and published online. Actual fairness and objectivity left NPR's building in the 1970s, if those qualities ever even entered it.
If you look at the graph at the Hot Air link I posted, the NPR trust problem started about 2000, during that year's Presidential election and incessant vote recounts and hanging chads.
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Subaru's are liberal cars? Asking for a friend? :whistle:
Not a good stereotype, is it? I've had two, and some of my best conservative friends own them.
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‘Strongly Disagree’ — NPR Rejects Accusation of Political Bias from Veteran Editor
NPR issued a hasty rebuke Tuesday to senior business editor Uri Berliner after he took the broadcaster to task over its lack of diverse views and opinions bookended by left-wing bias.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/04/10/strongly-disagree-npr-rejects-accusation-of-political-bias-from-veteran-editor/
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‘Strongly Disagree’ — NPR Rejects Accusation of Political Bias from Veteran Editor
NPR issued a hasty rebuke Tuesday to senior business editor Uri Berliner after he took the broadcaster to task over its lack of diverse views and opinions bookended by left-wing bias.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/04/10/strongly-disagree-npr-rejects-accusation-of-political-bias-from-veteran-editor/
I'd love to be a fly on the wall inside NPR's offices this morning.
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Subaru's are liberal cars? Asking for a friend? :whistle:
Only if the liberal in the Subaru is also a lesbian.
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Only if the liberal in the Subaru is also a lesbian.
Women wearing comfortable shoes and flannel drive Lezbaru's.
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Around here, where the roads are hilly and winding, and occasionally snow-covered, the most sensible cars to drive are Subarus and Jeeps (with or without sensible shoes).
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Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
How can we ever forget NPR's courageous stance to ignore a major, relevant story on the eve of a presidential election.
True journalistic heroism.
9:09 AM · Apr 10, 2024
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Political bias is an integral part of everything NPR does, unfortunately. "All Things Considered" used to be left leaning but fair. Today it is one story after another about victimhood from evil oil companies, or global warming, or white supremacists, or whatever other right wing boogeyman they can configure. Even the game shows routinely bash Trump, Christianity, traditionalism with gags that are intentionally designed as "inside" jokes that only the enlightened would appreciate. My favorite NPR program is "Fresh Air" with Terry Grosse. I download that program regularly, but I used to listen to it daily. It has become impossible to listen to anymore because so many episodes are devoted to anti-right or pro-left themes. Now I pick the episodes to download, and find maybe just 20 percent are on subjects that might matter to a broad range of people.
If you liked the old NPR, I recommend you go to the BBC website. There you can download quite a few great programs that are nearly devoid of bias. Three that I recommend highly are You're Dead to Me, In Our Time and Uncanny. There are literally thousands of hours of great podcasts at BBC. BBC in general is still somewhat left-biased, but it does not creep into every program the way it does at NPR.
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And $500,000 dollars of our money goes to fund this Communist Leftist think-tank.
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Senior Editor: NPR Employs 87 Democrats in Editorial Positions, 0 Republicans in DC Newsroom
NPR radio dazeAP Photo/Charles Dharapak
WENDELL HUSEBØ9 Apr 2024949
Far-left National Public Radio (NPR) employs 87 registered Democrats in editorial positions but zero Republicans in the same positions in its Washington, DC, headquarters, NPR Senior Editor Uri Berliner wrote Tuesday.
Berliner, who admittedly leans left, wrote a scathing article about NPR’s illiberal newsroom, slamming the taxpayer-funded network for refusing to address “a diversity problem” within the office.
In an article published in the Free Press, Berliner said he opposed many of the left-wing and perhaps false narratives NPR spun about the coronavirus “lab leak theory,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Hunter Biden’s laptop, former President Donald Trump, and the 2016 Russia hoax.
“[P]olitics were blotting out the curiosity and independence that ought to have been driving our work,” he explained. His concerns came to a head when he told management in 2021 that NPR, which presents its news stories as unbiased, had a bias problem within the network.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/04/09/senior-editor-npr-employs-87-democrats-in-editorial-positions-0-republicans-in-dc-newsroom/
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If they were all white, it would be headline news all the way to McMurdo sound about the lack of diversity and equity. I guess they don't apply to the media and politics.
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Women wearing comfortable shoes and flannel drive Lezbaru's.
Well that I did know about, but thought it was for 90's and 2000's outback specifically. Didn't know the whole Subaru brand was tarnished by this association.
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Well that I did know about, but thought it was for 90's and 2000's outback specifically. Didn't know the whole Subaru brand was tarnished by this association.
Subaru got weird when they adopted the slogan "Love...it's what makes a Subaru a Subaru." Before that, it was 4WD that made it a Subaru.
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Not a good stereotype, is it? I've had two, and some of my best conservative friends own them.
It's kinda true... they got big with granola-heads, and that ain't rubbed off. But they're dang good cars, and about the only car reliable enough to bear the claim in mountain regions. In places that demand the most out of a vehicle, you're either driving something made from a pickup, or you're driving a Subie.
That's true enough.
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Mitch "The Wałęsa Project" Berg 🇺🇸
@mitchpberg
Us: "NPR is government radio"
Them: "Hah. Direct subsidies are <2% of budget"
Us: "Indirect subsidies, like grants to groups that pay for programs, and free space @ universities, make it more like 40%"
Them: "Why do you want to kill Nina Totenberg?"
3:34 PM · Apr 10, 2024
:laugh:
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NPR Editor's Critical Op-Ed Ignites Debate Over Political Bias in Journalism: 'This Essay Has It Backwards'
Story by Natalie Korach • 17h
A scathing op-ed from NPR veteran and current senior business editor Uri Berliner published in The Free Press on Tuesday has intensified debates over whether the publicly funded news organization has adopted a partisan lean in recent years.
In the piece, Berliner details a culture shift at the organization, in which "An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don't have an audience that reflects America."
Berliner argued that NPR is plagued with an "absence of viewpoint diversity," which he considers to be a result of leadership's emphasis on promoting diversity and inclusion on the basis of race and sexual orientation. He also claims that he found "87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans."
NPR editor-in-chief Edith Chapin defended the organization in response to the piece, saying she the leadership team "strongly disagree with Uri's assessment of the quality of our journalism."
While Chapin backed the "exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories," she added that "None of our work is above scrutiny or critique. We must have vigorous discussions in the newsroom about how we serve the public as a whole."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/npr-editor-s-critical-op-ed-ignites-debate-over-political-bias-in-journalism-this-essay-has-it-backwards/ar-BB1lpcFr?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=5ce61b233e4d4e8b961ef42b81e5e4f3&ei=26
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Liberals always defend most ardently, not well but ardently, the things they are trying to destroy to set a smoke screen for their true motives. Just think of free speech.
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Trump had 4 years to rein this crap in.
Trump knocks NPR after editor accuses network of bias
BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO - 04/11/24 9:09 AM ET
Former President Trump took a shot at NPR after one of its editors openly blasted the public broadcaster, accusing it of bias.
“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO ‘DAMAGE TRUMP,'” the former president wrote this week on his Truth Social website. “THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!”
Trump’s condemnation came after Uri Berliner, a senior editor at NPR who has worked there for more than two decades, published an op-ed saying his employer has lost its way and criticizing its editorial strategy.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4587820-trump-knocks-npr-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias/ (https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4587820-trump-knocks-npr-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias/)
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Existing thread, https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,529144.0.html
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‘Strongly Disagree’ — NPR Rejects Accusation of Political Bias from Veteran Editor
NPR issued a hasty rebuke Tuesday to senior business editor Uri Berliner after he took the broadcaster to task over its lack of diverse views and opinions bookended by left-wing bias.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/04/10/strongly-disagree-npr-rejects-accusation-of-political-bias-from-veteran-editor/
Most of the staff at NPR probably don’t think they have a political bias. They think what they believe is just what is. They probably don’t venture much outside of their liberal bubble
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End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
This is NPR's new CEO, Katherine Maher. Reminder: Our taxes fund her salary.
2:30 PM · Apr 14, 2024
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End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
This is the new CEO and President of NPR. After seeing her old tweets, I'm starting to think she's just an AI chatbot.
They must be trolling us, right? Right?
5:46 PM · Apr 14, 2024
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:bkmk:
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NPR suspends veteran editor who blew whistle on liberal bias at organization
Uri Berliner has been suspended for five days without pay after criticizing outlet's liberal bias
By Brian Flood Fox News
Published April 16, 2024 9:15am EDT
NPR has suspended veteran editor Uri Berliner after he detailed his employer’s "absence of viewpoint diversity" last week in a stunning rebuke of the news organization.
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik reported the five-day suspension without pay began on Friday.
Berliner penned a bombshell piece in the Free Press that criticized NPR’s coverage of Russiagate, the COVID lab leak theory, Hunter Biden’s scandalous laptop, embrace of the theory of systemic racism and accused the organization of downplaying antisemitism following Oct. 7.
more
https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-suspends-veteran-editor-who-blew-whistle-liberal-bias-organization
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Do whistleblower laws apply?
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Do whistleblower laws apply?
5-day unpaid vacation...slap on the wrist! They're afraid to fire him outright now, but when he comes back, they'll just assign him to a broom closet and stick him on the obituary beat.
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5-day unpaid vacation...slap on the wrist! They're afraid to fire him outright now, but when he comes back, they'll just assign him to a broom closet and stick him on the obituary beat.
Hope he takes his red swingline stapler with him to his new office.
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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
NPR has hired a left-wing activist who openly endorses censoring, deplatforming, and punching political opponents. She considers the First Amendment the "number one challenge" to controlling "bad information."
The American people should not be paying for this. She must resign.
10:35 AM · Apr 17, 2024
Uri Berliner has resigned:
https://twitter.com/uberliner/status/1780610524411048183
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The new commie CEO of NPR made his point for him.
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Republican Senator Moves to Make NPR's Worst Nightmare Come True
By Johnathan Jones April 17, 2024 at 9:20am
Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is planning to propose legislation that would pull funding for NPR as the agency grapples with the backlash against its far-left bias.
The media organization that relies partially on public funds to operate has faced scrutiny in recent weeks since a veteran editor admitted NPR is biased against conservatives.
Meanwhile, NPR’s new CEO Katherine Maher is also under fire over old social media posts that demonstrate she has been a longtime far-left activist.
Blackburn, who spoke to Fox News on Wednesday, plans to cut off any government funding to the far-left organization, she said.
In a statement, Blackburn called out NPR.
“The mainstream media has become obsessed with doing the left’s bidding and taking down strong conservatives — and NPR has led the pack,” she told Fox News.
more
https://www.westernjournal.com/republican-senator-moves-make-nprs-worst-nightmare-come-true/
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If NPR is so great,then let it compete in the marketplace
Would liberals be OK if tax dollars were used to fund Fox News? Or the Rush Limbaugh show when he was alive
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If NPR is so great,then let it compete in the marketplace
Would liberals be OK if tax dollars were used to fund Fox News? Or the Rush Limbaugh show when he was alive
Marsha Blackburn can KMA.
Where the hell was ANYBODY for the past decade when all the masks were off the opposition?
You'd think it was an election year or something. {spit}
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Marsha Blackburn can KMA.
Where the hell was ANYBODY for the past decade when all the masks were off the opposition?
You'd think it was an election year or something. {spit}
When I was in college, I would catch NPR on my way to school in the morning. Even then, I understood they had a left leaning slant. This was late 1980’s/early 1990’s
This was the same NPR were then Nina Totenburg stated that it would be justice if then Senator Jesse Helms or his grandkids got AIDS
This is the same NPR that fired Juan Williams for simply admitting that he would be nervous after 911 getting on an airplane were there was a group of Muslims flying
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We don't need NPR or PBS. Defund both.
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We don't need NPR or PBS. Defund both.
:amen: The sooner the better!
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We don't need NPR or PBS. Defund both.
And if the left believe that both are necessary, let them open up their checkbooks and send a donation
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Uri Berliner will be out of a job soon. NPR employees will see to that.
And he can say goodbye to the invites to all those fancy parties where people like him get together and laugh at middle America and their archaic values
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I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.
You lost America's trust by lying.
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5-day unpaid vacation...slap on the wrist! They're afraid to fire him outright now, but when he comes back, they'll just assign him to a broom closet and stick him on the obituary beat.
Yeah, they'll gaslight him.
How did NPR lose trust?
In a nutshell, they lied.
Repeatedly.
Not a basis for trust.
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Current CEO of NPR Katherine Maher in 2021, back when she worked for Wikipedia, literally talking about rewriting history because it currently favors white people.
https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1780699111693672598
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Current CEO of NPR Katherine Maher in 2021, back when she worked for Wikipedia, literally talking about rewriting history because it currently favors white people.
https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1780699111693672598
It starts with removing the statues and teaching history in schools. Then they will rewrite the history as Maher wishes.
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It starts with removing the statues and teaching history in schools. Then they will rewrite the history as Maher wishes.
@Wingnut
They may have something right in saying that Caucasian seniors are potential domestic terrorists...because I'm certainly getting fed up with all this bullsh*t. happy77
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I can't think of a time NPR wasn't a liberal hellhole of commie groupthink.
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@Wingnut
They may have something right in saying that Caucasian seniors are potential domestic terrorists...because I'm certainly getting fed up with all this bullsh*t. happy77
Shush... We don't want them to get on to us!!!!!
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New NPR CEO Gave Ted Talk Asserting "Truth" Is A "Distraction"
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, APR 17, 2024 - 02:00 PM
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news,
New NPR CEO Katherine Maher gave a Ted Talk during which she asserted that “truth” is a “distraction” which is “getting in the way of getting things done.”
Calls are growing for NPR to have its government funding withdrawn after a series of tweets by Maher were uncovered in which she supported far-left causes, including endorsing racial reparations and making claims that the planet is “burning.”
But the content of the Ted Talk she gave is raising even more eyebrows.
Maher ludicrously suggested during the speech that far-left Wikipedia had a model “which actually works really well” in determining “what the truth really is.”
Acknowledging that Wikipedia writers are “not focused on the truth, they’re focused on something else, which is the best of what we can know right now,” Maher suggested the “truth” was not a priority.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-npr-ceo-gave-ted-talk-asserting-truth-distraction
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I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.
1984
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The accompanying picture makes her look a bit like Chelsea Handler which gives her 2 7/8 strikes already. 9999what
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Topics merged
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Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be."
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848
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Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be."
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848
Ever notice how coastal white elites and more so AWFL's (Affluent White Female Liberals) use $10 words to make people think they are smarter than you? This woman is an educated idiot who really needs to be looking for a new job.
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Ever notice how coastal white elites and more so AWFL's (Affluent White Female Liberals) use $10 words to make people think they are smarter than you? This woman is an educated idiot who really needs to be looking for a new job.
:yowsa: pointing-up
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Defunding NPR has been on the "to do" list for 30 years. Republicans have consistently refused to do so.
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Defunding NPR has been on the "to do" list for 30 years. Republicans have consistently refused to do so.
PBS, too. And yet, here they remain after 30 years (or so).
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PBS, too. And yet, here they remain after 30 years (or so).
This is when they had cloture proof majorities too. No excuse for it. The entire Corportation for Public Broadcasting has no reason to be publically funded. It was perhaps more palatable when PBS was Mr Rogers and Sesame street, but as you know, that's no longer the case.
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This is when they had cloture proof majorities too. No excuse for it. The entire Corportation for Public Broadcasting has no reason to be publically funded. It was perhaps more palatable when PBS was Mr Rogers and Sesame street, but as you know, that's no longer the case.
Exactly. There was a time, long ago, when "educational programming" could be found only on public broadcasting, perhaps, and it didn't come with a side of indoctrination.
Them days is long over. We have history, nature, science and a variety of other educational topics available on cable. NatGeo, the History Channel, Discovery, et al., have found a niche in the commercial TV markets.
PBS and NPR are unnecessary and shouldn't receive a dime of taxpayer funding.
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Exactly. There was a time, long ago, when "educational programming" could be found only on public broadcasting, perhaps, and it didn't come with a side of indoctrination.
Them days is long over. We have history, nature, science and a variety of other educational topics available on cable. NatGeo, the History Channel, Discovery, et al., have found a niche in the commercial TV markets.
PBS and NPR are unnecessary and shouldn't receive a dime of taxpayer funding.
I generally agree @mountaineer but look at those things I highlighted with very jaundiced eyes as well. They often sell propaganda instead of anything truly factual.
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I generally agree @mountaineer but look at those things I highlighted with very jaundiced eyes as well. They often sell propaganda instead of anything truly factual.
True. "Climate change" is unavoidable on many of those channels (ugh, BBC and those Planet Earth documentaries). But apart from that, I learn a lot about history, architecture, and the like.
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True. "Climate change" is unavoidable on many of those channels (ugh, BBC and those Planet Earth documentaries). But apart from that, I learn a lot about history, architecture, and the like.
It's the History that often gives me heartburn. Much of that is just propaganda bearing little relation to what actually happened.
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I want it even more than de-funded, I want the names (NPR and PBS) and frequencies taken back and given to the free market. If they want commie radio, then bid and pay for it like other radio stations do.
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We'll see ...
JUST IN: Republicans Launch Effort To Defund NPR
Mark Steffen
April 19, 2024
Trending Politics (https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-republicans-launch-effort-to-defund-npr-mstef/?utm_source=jdunlap&utm_medium=twitter)
House Republicans have introduced legislation to wean National Public Radio off its government subsidy after the station was caught in the crosshairs over internal allegations of liberal bias.
The Daily Caller (https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/19/republican-indiana-jim-banks-introduction-bill-defund-npr-act-katherine-maher-uri-berliner/) reports that Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN) is sponsoring legislation aimed at zeroing out NPR’s public dollars, which are traditionally sourced from the Center for Public Broadcasting federal agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce.
Presently, NPR receives funding for less than 1% of its budget directly from the federal government, but receives almost 10% of its budget from federal, state, and local governments indirectly, according to the nonpartisan organization Influence Watch. ...
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We'll see ...
Include ALL of Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS is no better than NPR. Leave it to the GOPe to only do half measures.
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Include ALL of Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS is no better than NPR. Leave it to the GOPe to only do half measures.
Brother, Lets apply for a DJ job at our local PBS station.
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Brother, Lets apply for a DJ job at our local PBS station.
They have DJs at TV stations? (BTW, I have worked at both NPR Radio and PBS TV at some point.)
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They have DJs at TV stations? (BTW, I have worked at both NPR Radio and PBS TV at some point.)
Okay. NPR then. We would be a hit. Feeling all of 68 and going on fifteen.....
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Okay. NPR then. We would be a hit. Feeling all of 68 and going on fifteen.....
LOL! True. The NPR station I worked for was all Classical Music. I show I did was called Musica da Camera. Chamber music. I was hired and mostly did News, and I had a good reporter to learn from. Seriously.
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CORRUPTION CHRONICLES
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APRIL 25, 2024
NPR’s New CEO Sits on Board of Soros-Funded Activist Group that Pushes for Censorship
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In a grim indicator of how news will be covered on taxpayer dime, the new head of the government-funded National Public Radio (NPR) is on the board of a leftwing activist organization called Center for Democracy and Technology that pushes for censorship and receives funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Her name is Katherine Maher, a former Wikimedia Foundation CEO, with liberal views publicly expressed throughout the years in her social media posts. In 2018, she called former President Donald Trump a racist in a post that has since been deleted, according to a mainstream newspaper report. A couple of years ago Maher shared a photo of herself in a “President Biden” campaign hat. In a 2021 video clip the new NPR chief describes the First Amendment as the top challenge in the fight against disinformation, a fictitious crisis created by the Biden administration to control information.
Maher takes over at NPR as a longtime NPR editor, Uri Berliner, reveals that liberal bias has altered the public radio network’s coverage in recent years, resulting in errors on major stories such as the Hamas attacks in Israel, Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal and COVID-19. “It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed,” Berliner, a 25-year NPR veteran wrote in a recently published essay. “We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding. In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population. An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America. That wouldn’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience. But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model.” Berliner confirms that race and identity have become paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace and journalists are required to ask everyone they interview about race, gender, and ethnicity.
A few days ago, Berliner, a senior business editor, resigned, citing Maher’s response to his recent exposé. In an email to the radio network’s new CEO, Berliner wrote: “I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.” NPR and its new chief declined to comment publicly but the network’s news executive, Edith Chapin, wrote a memo to employees saying that inclusion among staff, sourcing and overall coverage is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/nprs-new-ceo/
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Include ALL of Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS is no better than NPR. Leave it to the GOPe to only do half measures.
Leave it to GOPe to do nothing at all while recycling this as a campaign issue every election for the last 40+ years. They promised to do this in 1980. Yet here we are.