By Mark Glennon | Founder of Wirepoints
If you haven’t read it, you’ve missed what every journalist in America has probably read: a brutal column on how National Public Radio (NPR) lost America’s trust, written last week by a 25-year NPR veteran, Uri Berliner.
It may be shaping up as a game-changer, but not because it exposed anything new. It didn’t, but this time, most every national news outlet in America reported on Berliner’s column and, more surprisingly, didn’t deny much of it.
Berliner’s column seems to be cranking the spotlight on mainstream media up to full blast. NPR may be among the very worst, but much of what Berliner wrote applies to much of the traditional news media. Hopefully, all media will get the message – in Illinois, too.
NPR, as Berliner describes, is hostile to viewpoint diversity, staffed entirely by leftists and woke to the point of silliness. NPR, he says, embraced a knee-jerk, activist, scolding posture, representing the “distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”
Most importantly, Berliner describes how NPR willfully distorted the news. It peddled the Russia collusion hoax, rejected any coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop and its evidence of Biden family corruption, and censored criticism of establishment views on Covid.
That’s what most Americans already know, which is part of Berliner’s point. NPR’s audience has consequently shrunk to a niche on the far left, he explained. For NPR, Berliner says, that’s “devastating both for its journalism and its business model.” [Emphasis added.]
People are consuming less news, worsening the financial plight of traditional news media, though the downturn has hit most newer, online sights as well.
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