@briankrebs I think journalism is best when it illuminates the truth. I really appreciate very objective reporting that plainly states the facts without opinion or editorialism. I think taking a "slant" or "agenda" *can* be in service of illuminating the truth if it's highlighting a perspective or giving a frame of reference.

Journalism is not doing its job if it's cherry-picking facts to push consumers to a prescribed outcome (aka propaganda).

I'm really not concerned with the idea that ...

@briankrebs ... NPR, as an organization, has a perspective on the world and a set of values that it wants its journalists to adhere to.

This blog post by Berliner would be much more compelling if it actually exposed some sort of depth of truth. Instead, it's more of a lament that his perspective isn't valued inside of the current regime at NPR.

The big "truth bombs" outlined in the blog post really have no meat to them. The Hunter Biden laptop had nothing but personal pornography on it.

@briankrebs The Mueller report did not reach the high threshold set for collusion, especially to Bill Barr's interpretation, but there was meat to the story, given the findings of Russian interference in the election.

And I haven't bothered reviewing all the information about the origins of COVID-19.

So while I do see that NPR has perspective that guides which stories it's interested in pursuing, this is hardly a scandal.

I'd like to see the journalists have more freedom to pursue any...