Reality is not consistent with right wing views, so of course any reporting that is tethered to facts or logic seems biased to them.
His “public criticism” amounted to being fascist apologist and handwaving away the fact that Fox et al can make up news whole cloth and radicalize the electorate, but it’s somehow NPR’S fault.
Damn that comment section is a prime example of why I don’t have a HN account.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo is among those now targeting NPR’s new chief executive, Katherine Maher, for messages she posted to social media years before joining the network.
In presenting Berliner’s suspension Thursday afternoon, the organization told the editor he had failed to secure its approval for outside work for other news outlets, as is required of NPR journalists.
Morning Edition host Michel Martin told me some colleagues at the network share Berliner’s concerns that coverage is frequently presented through an ideological or idealistic prism that can alienate listeners.
On Monday, New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn announced to his staff that the newspaper’s inquiry into who leaked internal dissent over a planned episode of its podcast The Daily to another news outlet proved inconclusive.
“Among the questions we’ll ask of ourselves each month: Did we capture the diversity of this country — racial, ethnic, religious, economic, political geographic, etc — in all of its complexity and in a way that helped listeners and readers recognize themselves and their communities?”
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Boo. Fucking. Hoo.
