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Gang,
There was a time that ole pb got nearly 100% of his news from NPR's MORNING EDITION and the PBS NewsHour.
The woke, white electric limousine lovin progressive Swampcult destroyed what may have been the greatest news source in human history and turned into a Holy Trinity for Curt's ilk to fan the flames of the preferences and prejudices that they take with them to every moment of their lives.
An, as po'd say it, EFFINtragedy.
Editor Uri Berliner 'eagerly' voted against Trump, but criticized NPR's lack of viewpoint diversity
"So on May 3, 2021, I presented the findings at an all-hands editorial staff meeting. When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, the response wasn’t hostile. It was worse," he wrote in The Free Press. "It was met with profound indifference. I got a few messages from surprised, curious colleagues. But the messages were of the ‘oh wow, that’s weird’ variety, as if the lopsided tally was a random anomaly rather than a critical failure of our diversity North Star."
Berliner, who's been at NPR for 25 years, "eagerly" voted against Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, but wrote he found NPR's advocacy-style coverage of his presidency wrongheaded. He said he'd had regular conversations with news leaders about the homogeneous political culture, to no avail.
Berliner noted that polling showed NPR's audience had become significantly less diverse over the years as well, going from slightly left-leaning overall in 2011 to overwhelmingly so by 2023.
"Only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal," he said of the most recent survey.
"An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America," he added. "That wouldn’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience. But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model."
Back on the old forum, pb argued with tuk over the best definition of the Swamp. And, pb was bang on. The Swamp ain't just DC politicians and bureaucrats, it's also the entrenched dysfunctional and corrupt press.
This proves the point.
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