ByteOnBikesHere it comes
The so-called "left-leaning“ (in reality Centrist at the best of times and sometimes quite far right) media have a frequent tendency to report on ridiculous claims by the fascists without any indication that it’s utter nonsense or even that there’s no evidence for it.
The Velour Fog Editorial “backstops” courtesy of anonymous donors.
podcastnewsdaily.com/…/article_fb8101e2-146c-11ef…
www.nytimes.com/2024/…/npr-editing-backstop.html
I’ve been listening to NPR for years and since 2024 they started including right wing rhetoric in their reporting. It started getting really obvious the closer we got to the last election.
I listen to NPR as well, have for years, donate to my local station, and I’ve only ever heard them discuss right-wing talking as exactly that: clearly labeled right-wing talking points that are relevant to informing listeners about the current state of the national discourse.
While anonymous donors of any kind rub me the wrong way, the article you linked doesn’t provide evidence of the things I read asking for citations about.
Rather it specifically talks about a) concerns about the rapidity of journalism within NPR when having to go through now editor review and b) accusations of left-leaning bias from a former employee
I appreciate your concerns but the links you provided don’t back up the claims I was responding to, and while they are concerning for a few reasons, none of those reasons are “becoming more right wing” or “repeating right wing talking points as fact or opinion”.
AFaithfulNihilistMere accusations of being left-leaning and mysterious anonymous money were enough to insert an entire editorial board to filter the news.
They don’t report things that should be important if they are offensive to right-wing politics.
They don’t report on wage theft. They don’t report on health care abuses. They don’t report on lies or incompetence in the Trump administration.
They lick boots and rationalize genocide. They’ve always been a little right leaning in that reporting reality as it is is extremely hostile to right-wing politics so they have to protect people from the truth.
NPR has not been left-wing or even vaguely left of center for a while. They are rapidly homophobic or racist, but they are islamophobic and they will indulge whatever is the right-wing rumor or paranoia of the day.
Having links to back up your claims would go a long way to convincing people. Otherwise your words are just you yelling at clouds and hoping somebody will listen.