From The Other McCain we get the following: Is NPR’s Popularity Waning, or Has Their Appeal Become More Selective?
After a brief foray into This Is Spinal Tap nostalgia, he starts with Uri Berliner’s expose on the bias at NPR.
Not surprisingly, Uri Berliner got the ax at NPR after spilling the beans, because liberal media bias is like Fight Club — the first rule is, you can’t mention it, at least not if you want to be employed at an outfit like NPR. Media bias is structural and systemic in its nature, the result of hiring practices that exclude opposing voices, so that there is no one in the newsroom who doesn’t share the echo-chamber delusions that their one-sided coverage is fair and accurate.
Then we get more, on the current hand wringing over the defuding of The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ending with the Sky Is Falling pronouncements from CNN.
Oh, sure, it’s going to be “devastating” for rural folks in Kansas and Kentucky that they might lose access to a daily dose of what Katherine Maher thinks of as “nonpartisan” coverage.
Click thru if only for Eric Schmitt reading some some tweets from the deranged NPR CEO.
As for NPR and their bias, it dates to WELL before Uri Berliner wrote his piece in 2024.
There was a time, decades ago, when I gave a lot of money to my local NPR station every year, but their bias got to me in the 1990s, and I stopped giving them money. Today they are little more than the public relations arm of the Democratic Party.
I too used to donate to NPR in the 1990s when I first came to the US, because although there was bias, the content was far more in depth than any other source. Then they started pushing the LGBTQ perspective hard. At first I would see how long it took on my commute before a solely LGBTQ story came on. Then I started counting the number in my 1 hr drive to and from work. Finally at the first LGBTQ story, I would switch to WSB, talk radio demagoguery and commercials notwithstanding, and pretty soon I found myself barely getting out of the driveway before switching channels.
ReplyDeletePretending the issues of 3%of the population are the most important thing for the rest of your audience simply alienates the majority.