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Ooo, and now we can add media outlet of choice...NPR...to our list of untrustworthy, biased and slanted liberal media outfits:
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-am...I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.
Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.Attacks on critical thinking and the accompanying war on objective truth have been priority 1 for the left for literally decades. There were certain Fools who used to lose their minds when I would point that out.
Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.
Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming. A massive number of people still think to this day that Schiff has actual evidence (he doesn't and never did).
In October 2020, the New York Post published the explosive report about the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer shop containing emails about his sordid business dealings. With the election only weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye. Here’s how NPR’s managing editor for news at the time explained the thinking: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
But it wasn’t a pure distraction, or a product of Russian disinformation, as dozens of former and current intelligence officials suggested. The laptop did belong to Hunter Biden. Its contents revealed his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father.
The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched.The mainstream media mostly lies via omission: stories that are damaging to democrats are either shitcanned outright or presented to their credulous viewers as "Republicans seize" or "Republicans pounce" on issue X. The sleight of hand allows the story to be twisted away from the damaging issue and become instead the Republican reaction to it.
