National Public Radio is the advertising stock of the remaining that you have always assumed it to be.
An illuminating article published by The Free Press on Tuesday exposed that truth. It was written by Uri Berliner, who has worked for NPR for 25 times.
What he described as a publicly funded media organization changed from having a liberal bias to one that would render Pravda appear to be impartial. NPR then repeatedly repeats itself for a very small audience without also removing any element of ideological balance.
National Public Radio is no nationwide, nor does it serve the public. It’s a tube instrument of kept- aircraft views soaking up federal funds serving the interests of one social party—Democrats, of program.
Berliner—who wrote that he’s the” notion of the NPR speaker: an EV- moving, Wordle- playing, wrap bag- carrying southern elite” —laid out what it’s today like on the inside at NPR.
He explained how the system eagerly promoted Democratic Party members ‘ stories, including the Russia cooperation fake involving former president Donald Trump, which vanished when the account was no longer relevant.
Berliner emphasized how the system is frequently preoccupied with personality issues to the exclusion of everything else.
” Race and personality became major in nearly every aspect of the workplace”, Berliner wrote. ” Journalists were required to ask everyone we interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity (among other questions ), and had to enter it in a centralized tracking system”.
Berliner claimed that employees were given “unconscious- discrimination training sessions” and that a growing La staff encourages other employees to” began talking about race.” He noted that NPR now has a “burgeoning number of employee resource ( or affinity ) groups based on identity”.
Berliner listed some of these affinity groups and plans, including the “MGIPOC ( Marginalized Genders and Intersex People of Color coaching program )”, the” People, Gender- Broad, and Transgender Citizens in Technology Throughout Public Media”, and many others, in some cases extremely excessively market identity groups.
These identity blocs, Berliner explained, are a priority for NPR’s union, which ensures that “advocacy groups are given a seat at the table in determining the terms and vocabulary of our news coverage”.
The end result is a constant stream of programming that is almost identical but predictable.
” There’s an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue and how they should be framed”, Berliner wrote. ” It’s frictionless—one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies. It’s almost like an assembly line”.
According to Berliner, he conducted some research into the party affiliations of the NPR employees, finding that there were “87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans working.” None”.
When Berliner brought this information to an all- staff meeting, he was n’t met with hostility, but “indifference”, he wrote. Nobody appeared to find this fact unusual or problematic.
Since 2011, NPR’s mostly left- leaning audience—which then still included a fair number of conservatives and moderates—is now almost entirely left- wing. He claimed that nearly all but the most ideologically committed people have been turned off by the network’s programming because it has veered further and further left.
” That would n’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience”, Berliner wrote. ” But for NPR, which purports to’ consider all things,’ it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model”.
I concur with Berliner that there was a time when NPR tried to be more balanced and had programming that was n’t either ridiculously biased or racial and gender nonsense. But shows like” Car Talk” are a thing of the past.
As Berliner remarked, NPR these days essentially sells a mixture of regime propaganda and racial identitarianism. The programming is now entirely coded for a small subset of upper- middle- class left- wingers who almost certainly ( and disproportionally ) have those” In this house, we believe …” lawn signs in their yard.
It’s a parody, inside and out.
Of course, NPR’s direction was entirely predictable given the trends of recent years.
It’s gone down the same path as the vast majority of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and corporations. Any institution connected to America’s formally established secular church of higher education, especially when it receives funding from the government, almost entirely woken up.
What the Left wants to change is a culture, shame America for its racial sins, free bathrooms from the gender binary, and obsess over every novel and marginalized group on the ever-expanding web of intersectionality. That’s why NPR’s nonstop drumbeat is exactly what listeners get.
NPR certainly does n’t seem to be serving the country or offering a general service to the public for a network called” National Public Radio.” If it were an entirely private network like the equally left- wing MSNBC, that would n’t be a problem. The issue is that despite being entirely unilateral, federal funds continue to flow to NPR.
And that’s where I disagree with Berliner. He claimed that “defunding is n’t the answer” and that” there’s still a need for a public institution where stories are told and viewpoints exchanged in good faith.”
It is foolish to wait for institutions like NPR to start making internal changes. They will continue doing what they’ve been programmed to do, which is to promote and advance their ideological agenda, unless they have direct and ongoing financial and political pressure.
NPR is past due at this time.
