Writing Thursday morning over at Nationwide Assessment within the Morning Jolt e-newsletter, senior author Jim Geraghty went postal on taxpayer-funded Nationwide Public Radio (NPR) over its dealing with of now-former senior enterprise editor Uri Berliner’s bombshell essay for The Free Press meticulously dismantling NPR for its many years of liberal media bias.
Geraghty (accurately) acknowledged it’s been “refreshingly trustworthy” to see how “NPR responded to the revelations and accusations of 25-year veteran Uri Berliner” with “biased, one-sided, conceited, and dismissive” condemnations of Berliner as a result of “that’s precisely how NPR likes it” sinc ethey “didn’t get this fashion by accident; that is what it needs to be.”
He acknowledged anybody who’s “been round lengthy sufficient” has “seen this kind of journalistic story-cycle earlier than” by which some kind of hubbub breaks out at a liberal media heavyweight, they declare to be sorrowful and have “strayed from its authentic mission to report the information”….after which nothing occurs.
He went again by way of a slew of examples as method of claiming “[t]right here’s one thing a bit refreshing, if miserable, about the way in which NPR responded to” Berliner:
You’ll be able to suppose again to Dan Somewhat and CBS Information, or Eason Jordan and CNN, or Stephen Glass on the New Republic. Or, extra lately, the employees panic and outrage that ousted James Bennet from the editorial web page on the New York Occasions. Heck, you might return to Janet Cooke and the Washington Submit, or all the way in which again to Walter Duranty’s work for the New York Occasions within the Soviet Union, echoing the propaganda of Stalin.
“This time at NPR, there isn’t any rubbing of the chin, furrowed brows, or begrudging concession that the critic has a degree, and that they need to do higher. Nope, NPR’s administration thinks they’re doing a terrific job, and so they don’t see any motive to alter. Of their minds, the true villain of this story is Berliner,” he added with “former colleagues are equally indignant that anyone may presumably doubt the standard of the work that they’re doing.”
After winding by way of NPR’s closely slanted protection of the coronavirus pandemic and the Hunter Biden laptop computer, Geraghty noticed “NPR administration” has clearly determined that, missing any concern of cajoles from Republicans to defund them, they may deal with Berliner’s considerations “the identical method” they “handled the counterevidence for the Trump–Russia collusion narrative, or the Hunter Biden laptop computer, or the proof pointing to a lab leak.”
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