How NPR lost America's trust

[Doctor Phibes]

The other thing I got really sick of was the interminable breaks where they spent 5 minutes telling us how awesome they are and how their journalism was so groundbreakingly wonderful and commercial free (in the middle of what is clearly a commercial for themselves).

If they were that great, they wouldn't need to go on about it so much.

[Renauda]

I could listen to NPR on satellite radio, but I don’t. Probably will never will.

[kluurs]

@George-K

Haha!

[George K]

The new CEO at NPR.

Of course, it's totally possible that she's moderated her views in the last 4 years, isn't it?

[Mik]

Um…no.

[George K]

@Mik said in How NPR lost America's trust:

Um…no.

[George K]

LOL...

[Horace]

800k per year is a lot. But the word "millionaire" should be on its last legs as a sign of wealth.

[Doctor Phibes]

800K is only a lot when it's somebody I don't like earning it.

I dislike Max Verstappen a lot more (basically because he's quite aggravating, foreign, and very talented), and he earns over 50 million a year.

[Axtremus]

I don't listen to radio much to begin with, and I listen to radio even less as I spend less time in the car. Still, of all the radio stations out there, I continue to prefer NPR for when I do listen to radio.

[LuFins Dad]

She looks like she should be the college intern.

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in How NPR lost America's trust:

She looks like she should be the college intern.

Taibbi: https://www.racket.news/p/new-npr-chief-katherine-mahers-guide?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

Maher’s timeline reads so much like the Titania McGrath site spoofing overeducated nonsense-babbling white ladies that it’s difficult to believe she’s real — she even looks like the fictional McGrath, if Titania had more money to spend on personal upkeep.

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in How NPR lost America's trust:

She looks like she should be the college intern.

They all look like that. And sound like it.

For all the talk of "diversity", pretty much everybody's young and female. Admittedly, they're a pretty diverse group of young women.

[Mik]

@Axtremus said in How NPR lost America's trust:

I don't listen to radio much to begin with, and I listen to radio even less as I spend less time in the car. Still, of all the radio stations out there, I continue to prefer NPR for when I do listen to radio.

I do too, unless I want music. Sometimes the wokeness gets to me, but most of the time I don't mind hearing a different viewpoint. Every now and then they achieve something close to balance. Not often, but sometimes.

[George K]

Of course they did:

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay

NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "lost America's trust" by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.

Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.

Yet the public radio network is grappling in other ways with the fallout from Berliner's essay for the online news site The Free Press. It angered many of his colleagues, led NPR leaders to announce monthly internal reviews of the network's coverage, and gave fresh ammunition to conservative and partisan Republican critics of NPR, including former President Donald Trump.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in How NPR lost America's trust:

Of course they did:

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay

NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "lost America's trust" by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.

Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.

Yet the public radio network is grappling in other ways with the fallout from Berliner's essay for the online news site The Free Press. It angered many of his colleagues, led NPR leaders to announce monthly internal reviews of the network's coverage, and gave fresh ammunition to conservative and partisan Republican critics of NPR, including former President Donald Trump.

If I publicly criticised the company I work for I'd get a lot worse than that.

Just saying.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in How NPR lost America's trust:

If I publicly criticised the company I work for I'd get a lot worse than that.

Maybe there's a difference between that and calling out a "news" organization for being propaganda biased?

But, I get your point.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in How NPR lost America's trust:

Maybe there's a difference between that and calling out a "news" organization for being propaganda biased?

There's a contract between me and the people that pay my wages that I don't make them look bad.

I know, he's being heroic. It's what journalists do, and then go on and on about it.

At the end of the day it's just a job. If he wanted to follow a calling he should have joined the church.

I agree with what he said, incidentally. NPR are pretty woeful.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah any place I’ve worked such a letter would be understood as a letter of resignation

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in How NPR lost America's trust:

At the end of the day it's just a job. If he wanted to follow a calling he should have joined the church.

Not everyone views their job in the way that you view yours. Old-school NPR journalists for example are pretty hardcore about theirs. And it was a good thing they were.