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Is National Public Radio honest and sensible? Would they care what you think?
Radio has a” Public Editor” to monitor speaker concerns and problems, but as we all know, the majority of their viewers are going to complain they’re never “progressive” plenty. Public Editor Kelly McBride praised NPR’s decision to allow its journalists to attend ( leftist ) public demonstrations so they could “bring their full humanity to work with them” in a 2021 interview on Brian Stelter’s CNN podcast.
When Stelter inquired about the detractors of NPR, McBride said that because they are not “genuinely interested in improving NPR,” they are not “genuinely interested in improving NPR.” McBride claimed that her job was to help NPR “accomplish its own privately expressed goals.” It does n’t help to be magnifying disingenuous criticism”. To stabilize NPR is to cause harm to NPR.
Uri Berliner, a senior editor at NPR, wrote a blatant discrimination introduce for the Free Press website that covered everything from the Hunter Biden laptop to Russian cooperation conspiracy theories. NPR did n’t report negatively on Donald Trump, they sought to “damage or topple Trump’s presidency”. Does McBride think that this censure, as it was privately stated, is worth taking into account?
NPR’s Edith Chapin, the head of NPR’s information division, responded to Berliner’s criticism with an established word salad .” We’re delighted to walk behind the excellent work that our desks and shows do, covering a wide range of challenging stories,” she wrote. We think participation is essential to delivering the complex stories of this nation and our planet through participation in our staff, our sourcing, and our general coverage.
” Inclusion” of conservative viewpoints is something NPR refuses to do. Folkenflik has covered Fox News since 2004 and has never spoken with me or anyone else for one of his reports on media performance, including the numerous hostile stories he has published on the network.  ,
However, Folkenflik recently filed a number of stories from fervently anti-Israel leftists at The Intercept, where they claimed that The New York Times was too pro-Israel in its coverage of sexual assaults committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. You can complain on the left that Hamas is depicted as too violent, but you ca n’t complain on the right that Republicans are depicted as fascists or racists.
CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy was n’t as calm as Folkenflik. From the beginning, he detested this Berliner critique. He questioned the notion that NPR is” supposedly embracing” a progressive viewpoint in his April 9 newsletter, and Berliner “felt more in line with the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page than NPR.” Darcy then signals that NPR’s identity is on the left.
Darcy expressed disgust that” Fox News quickly pounced” on the article, and it may lead to a” Jim Jordan type” to hold an oversight hearing on NPR tilt. Horrors!
On April 10, Darcy was at it again. Berliner’s expose on NPR is “nothing short but a massive gift to the right”, whose top priority is “vilifying the news media”. This is strange coming from Darcy, who frequently denigrates Fox News as fake news and claims that cable companies should deplatform it. According to Darcy and Stelter, freedom of speech does not imply “freedom of reach.”
On a daily basis, taxpayer- funded NPR is nothing short of a massive gift to the Left, pumping out progressive propaganda to over 1, 000 stations.  , Because it has “public” in its branding, too many Americans still think it’s a service to everyone…. and not just to the Democrats, who guarantee that the money will flow.
