@protecttruth @shoq
It is a shocking abdication of responsibility and it has been going on for years. Their obsessive effort not to offend anyone out of fear of losing their public funding has turned them to happy-talking mush. I remember when NPR was the must-listen radio station for insightful morning and evening news. I haven't been able to listen for more than a decade.

@Tmmck @protecttruth @shoq It's not an abdication of responsibility at all: they were taken over by the Republican party 20 years ago, and that's where their responsibilities lie. Consider Kenneth Tomlinson, for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Tomlinson

@protecttruth @shoq @MolnarSteven
I think that the primary responsibility of a PUBLIC radio station is to educate voters, which NPR has been largely failing at for years, even decades. In their attempts not to offend right-wing Republicans—who don’t believe in Anything public—they have allowed themselves to be editorially neutered. They used to be an important source of news. I wish they had fought harder to stay vital and relevant, not just to stay alive.

@Tmmck @protecttruth @shoq My point is that they are not just trying to avoid offending Republicans, but that they have been largely captured by the Republican party. The basic asymmetry is that the Republicans thirst for power, and have no interest in fairness, so they use the levers of government (including NPR) to enhance their control, which the Democrats, whatever their faults, balk at doing.