NPR Whistleblower Explains How NPR Became Propaganda

[Ana the Ist]

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

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Great read...and likely a similar story as many "left-leaning" but otherwise formerly reputable news organizations.

I used to consider NPR a rather reliable source before they took a nosedive in the shallow end of the pool. Here's my favorite excerpts...

Is America, as progressive activists claim, beset by systemic racism in the 2020s—in law enforcement, education, housing, and elsewhere? We happen to have a very powerful tool for answering such questions: journalism. Journalism that lets evidence lead the way.
But the message from the top was very different. America’s infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear: it was a given. Our mission was to change it.

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Race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace. Journalists were required to ask everyone we interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity (among other questions), and had to enter it in a [COLOR=var(--color-accent)]centralized trackinghttps://www.poynter.org/reporting-e...s-npr-to-track-source-diversity-in-real-time/ system. We were given unconscious bias training sessions. A growing DEI staff offered regular meetings imploring us to “start talking about race.” Monthly dialogues were offered for “women of color” and “men of color.” Nonbinary people of color were included, too. [/COLOR]




Thoughts?

 

[BCP1928]

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

www.thefp.com

Great read...and likely a similar story as many "left-leaning" but otherwise formerly reputable news organizations.

I used to consider NPR a rather reliable source before they took a nosedive in the shallow end of the pool. Here's my favorite excerpts...

Is America, as progressive activists claim, beset by systemic racism in the 2020s—in law enforcement, education, housing, and elsewhere? We happen to have a very powerful tool for answering such questions: journalism. Journalism that lets evidence lead the way.
But the message from the top was very different. America’s infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear: it was a given. Our mission was to change it.

....

Race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace. Journalists were required to ask everyone we interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity (among other questions), and had to enter it in a [COLOR=var(--color-accent)]centralized trackingNew tool allows NPR to track source diversity in real time - Poynter system. We were given unconscious bias training sessions. A growing DEI staff offered regular meetings imploring us to “start talking about race.” Monthly dialogues were offered for “women of color” and “men of color.” Nonbinary people of color were included, too. [/COLOR]




Thoughts?

What's your dog in this fight? Didn't you already think that NPR was propaganda?

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

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I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump. As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly.) But what...

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Anyway, I find it interesting that for you the most interesting parts of the article were about the "myth" of systemic racism and DEI and in Valletta's post it was about Trump.