TheThomas posted a blind link: https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
Response: It's an article worth considering. It illustrates how one-sided our mainstream news is.
The full headline: I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. -- By Uri Berliner April 9, 2024
FTA:
"An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America.
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."
[...snip...]
"It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens. You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story.
What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection. Especially when you expect high standards of transparency from public figures and institutions, but don’t practice those standards yourself. That’s what shatters trust and engenders cynicism about the media.
Russiagate was not NPR’s only miscue."
---end FTA---
He goes on to address NPR''s misguided treatment of other issues including:
"...the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned..."
"Politics also intruded into NPR’s Covid coverage..."
"Race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace."
