How often do you get to say it? Progress! NPR will not air Trump live if he speaks about his indictment today, a small win for common sense. (Some might say microscopic.)
But if you click and listen to NPR's executive editor, Terry Samuel, this may be the closest we get to NPR conceding that its Trump coverage 2016 to now didn't work because it tried to use normal tools and assumptions. To me that's significant, and it almost never happens.
#KochNetwork has spent a lot of effort undermining publicly funded broadcasting around the world. They reframe these assaults on the truth in a variety of ways
Their favored US narrative is that the deep state is guilty of "cancel culture".
In other countries where the oil industry is attacking democracy, they frame it as a "cost saving" measure.
Translation from the Republican: "Public broadcasters are reluctant to platform GOP propaganda"
NPR. VOA. PBS. CBC. ABC. BBC.
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All have been threatened with defunding in recent decades, so they "adjust" their reporting to suit Koch.
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/defunding-npr-its-not-that-easy-044056
https://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/134830262/defunding-public-media-disaster-or-opportunity
https://thehub.ca/2023-01-09/pierre-poilievre-wants-to-defund-the-cbc-heres-what-that-may-look-like/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/16/bbc-culture-secretary-funding-licence-fee
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/how-the-libs-should-defund-the-abc/
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Nicole Parsons