I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

[Bigun]

We don't need NPR or PBS. Defund both.

The sooner the better!

[LMAO]

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

[LMAO]

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

[Hoodat]

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

You lost America's trust by lying.

[Smokin Joe]

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.

[mountaineer]

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

[Wingnut]

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.

[DCPatriot]

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.   

[Sighlass]

I can't think of a time NPR wasn't a liberal hellhole of commie groupthink.

[Wingnut]

@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.   

Shush... We don't want them to get on to us!!!!!

[rangerrebew]

 
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

[LMAO]

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

[rangerrebew]

The accompanying picture makes her look a bit like Chelsea Handler which gives her 2 7/8 strikes already.

[Mod2]

Topics merged

[mountaineer]

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

[Wingnut]

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. 

[Bigun]

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.

 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Defunding NPR has been on the "to do" list for 30 years. Republicans have consistently refused to do so.

[Cyber Liberty]

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).

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

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.

[mountaineer]

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.

[Bigun]

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.

[mountaineer]

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.

[Bigun]

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.

[Sighlass]

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.

[mountaineer]

We'll see ...

JUST IN: Republicans Launch Effort To Defund NPR
Mark Steffen
April 19, 2024
Trending Politics

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 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. ...

[Cyber Liberty]

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.

[Wingnut]

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.

[Cyber Liberty]

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.)

[Wingnut]

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.....

[Cyber Liberty]

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.

[rangerrebew]

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
CC
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/

[Hoodat]

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.