How NPR lost America's trust
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Berliner’s argument is not about bias — NPR’s liberal tilt is structurally unavoidable given the kind of people who want to work there — as much as it is about the complete internal corruption of journalistic ethics. (To wit, his discussion of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is the ultimate confirmation of priors for suspicious conservatives: “I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.”)
The subtext of the piece, however, was clear: “Now that I’ve aired our dirty laundry, I dare you to fire me before I eventually resign.” This was, for all its eloquence, functionally a career-terminating act. The various official responses from NPR, including a defensive rebuttal from NPR’s standards & practices editor and a five-day suspension without pay for “freelancing without permission,” indicate clearly that he is now persona non grata. To be fair, Berliner either certainly expected this or should have. As Phoebe Maltz Bovy aptly asks, “How many jobs are there where you could write a big essay about your beef with your workplace and keep your job?” Berliner was clearly dismayed enough about the situation at NPR that he was prepared to leave, and since as an NPR liberal he is more genteel than Homer Simpson, he chose to burn his bridges publicly and rhetorically, rather than literally.
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@George-K said in How NPR lost America's trust:
I'm nearly entirely sure that with his Free Press essay, what he thought he was doing was attempting to make NPR better.
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I think he was trying to bring a whiff of ethics to NPR.
He failed.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@Jolly said in How NPR lost America's trust:
I think he was trying to bring a whiff of ethics to NPR.
He failed.
I don't think that came as a surprise to him, either. Last-ditch effort to confirm his decision.
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@Jolly said in How NPR lost America's trust:
I think he was trying to bring a whiff of ethics to NPR.
He failed.
For the moment. from little acorns..
I think there is a growing realization of journalism's current status as quite near propaganda, and a thirst for honest coverage.
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I’m sure his exit was planned before writing the letter.
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@jon-nyc said in How NPR lost America's trust:
I’m sure his exit was planned before writing the letter.
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He would have to be a mentally ill attention whore on the level of a Dylan Mulvaney to want to work for a place where he'll be hated.
@Horace said in How NPR lost America's trust:
He would have to be a mentally ill attention whore on the level of a Dylan Mulvaney to want to work for a place where he'll be hated.
You should meet my former CEO.
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@Horace said in How NPR lost America's trust:
He would have to be a mentally ill attention whore on the level of a Dylan Mulvaney to want to work for a place where he'll be hated.
You should meet my former CEO.
@Doctor-Phibes said in How NPR lost America's trust:
@Horace said in How NPR lost America's trust:
He would have to be a mentally ill attention whore on the level of a Dylan Mulvaney to want to work for a place where he'll be hated.
You should meet my former CEO.
Sociopathy is a helluva drug.
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"We strive to do this by being truly open to a "diversity of viewpoints," and wish to continue doing so without having our journalistic integrity called into question by one of our own colleagues."
In the comments, someone says: "The end is hysterical. They really think they’re open to a “diversity of viewpoints” while demanding protection from any viewpoint that disagrees with them."
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The editors at National Review:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/defund-npr/
"If NPR wants to run a journalist enterprise that is dedicated to advancing progressive ideology, it should do so with income from sponsorships, donations, subscriptions, or other avenues — just like every other media organization. It should not benefit from subsidies from U.S. taxpayers."
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Amen.
Public Radio should either run right down the middle on everything or run the news straight and include entertainment shows from all significant political persuasions.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
