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And of course, "Pronouns in Bio"

Driving the network into irrelevancy by hiring an incompetent ideologue nutcase is a good thing.

The turmoil is that there's a population that still believes PBS is the same thing it once was 40 years ago, and will trust it without question.

"Administrator of Sacred Cows, DEI Exonerations, DEI Quotas and Character Gaslighting, and Virtue Signaling Cream Puff."

She will also work for people defending Pit Bulls who have torn off baby faces as a script doctor.

Ceffer says

Will work for people defending Pit Bulls who have torn off baby faces as a script doctor.

Not to go too far off the rails, more than I have already, but Pit Bulls are pretty nice dogs, but you better be nice to them. They are muscled monsters if they want to be, but every one I've met is a great dog.

The concept that Pit Bulls are just unpredictable killers was created by our media. You know what the most bites of any dog is from? Labradors, but they are also the most popular dog. Raw numbers aren't very useful, percentages are.

Bad owner, bad dog. If you run into a person with a good dog, there's a 99.9% probability you just ran into a good person. They are like a bad child, they were abused if they are dangerous, they think you are as bad as the person they are always around so they react in that way. Not only kindness and love is replicated, evil and hate are as well. When I did dog rescue, part of that work was to PROVE I was going to be kind. I had to prove to the dog I was not a danger. It could take weeks, sometimes months, even years. I have a few scars to prove it.

I don't know if I can believe in god, however, it's almost impossible for me not to believe in good and evil.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay

NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism

Of course. The essay that got him suspended:

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite. It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.

I fit the NPR mold. I’ll cop to that.

So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk where news is always breaking, we’ve covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI.

It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.

In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.

If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.

But it hasn’t. ...

Patrick says

In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.

If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.

But it hasn’t. ...

OMG OMG OMG...I just read the piece, and I'm glad he wrote it, and I'm glad he identified his lefty bias at the beginning, because that explains why he himself is so blind to how biased NPR was even when he started! I (me, BTC) was raised Lib-tard and educated Lib-tard but service in the army and a few good profs and a few good books along the way deprogrammed me. I came to the nation's capital around 2003, transitioned from army to the NSA, and lived in the Burbs. I had not been a news junkie. I discovered the fatuousness of US TV news a long time ago, and stopped watching, and cut the cable, but I liked NPR's weekend programming. As I tried to fit in (key phrase) to the culture of an intelligence apparatchik, I read the WaPo and listened to NPR on my way to work. By 2010 I was well acquainted with NPR's "assembly line" style of news reporting, and that they had an hourly cycle. I started to tune out at certain time spots on the hour. Every hour at about 25 after, there was a story about a single mother. Make that a "stunning and brave, but struggling" single mother. If she was black or latino, so much the better. It got so I would tune in for only the first five or ten minutes of straight news, then switch the dial when they started "commenting" and interviewing. Sometimes I tested my perception, and tuned in at 20 minutes after the hour. Sure enough, a Lib-tard peice about how Single Moms are the Best would shortly play. NPR lost me way before Trump announced he was running for President. For a while I still tuned in to their economics show, Marketplace. Ron Paul helped wake me up to that line of B.S. And no one should forget that NPR went in for an orgy of Messiah-nistic verbal fireworks when Prince Obama was crowned. (I can't remember when I gave up the WaPo, but I do remember detecting the cultural programming in the "style" section, not so subtly letting readers know which opinions were correct; how to look act and dress the part of being a Eunuch in Byzantium's capital city. We did not have pet birds, so no reason to keep a paper.)

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/journalist-at-npr-suspended-leading-to-shocking-discovery-there-was-a-journalist-at-npr

BeneTiberCato says

transitioned from army to the NSA

@BeneTiberCato We would love to hear about what it's like to work at the NSA.

Patrick says

BeneTiberCato says

transitioned from army to the NSA

BeneTiberCato We would love to hear about what it's like to work at the NSA.

Tell us about Vault 7, and why even though that was clearly illegal, nothing was done to stop it?

Set anybody up for prison? Feel badly that we have a Stazi now? Well, there are 17 intelligence agencies, they are all the same.

AmericanKulak says

New NPR CEO is a big league Leftist NPC

Who hired her?

Patrick says

NPR hasn't been a real new organization since about 1995. Do you want it to survive?

It honestly used to be informative and useful, but it's long been supplanted by the Internet. The reason NPR and PBS existed was to provide the public with good information that was correct, and they abandoned that when I was 25 or at least began to and we have the Internet, just spend a LITTLE BIT OF EFFORT and you can find correct factual information. Just the tinniest amount of effort.

A clear, obvious, propagandist whore is now taking over - good. Kill it. I'm tired of people who I considered similar to me being around utterly convinced that the bullshit they hear off from "public newscasting" believing it's credible and real, and they are smart to listen to it. It was used to turn people that once had intellectual curiosity into NPC meat bags. It's just a drug, and they should be confined to cold turkey, it won't kill them.

NPR promoted the Russian Collusion bullshit, and the January 6th insurrection, and the Iraq War, and the Qaddafi is about to cause a humanitarian crisis, and Assad is gassing his own people - they are bullshit now, have been for a long fucking time. Let it die. I hope she's a complete fucking nutcase, it's a test of society. More and more I get to see who really is a fucking idiot and who isn't. Serious reporters quit when a propagandist takes over their organization, I've seen that a few times even if it's silent. Glenn Greenwald quit, so did Aaron Maté. There is a point where you are being tarnished by the liars you work for. Maybe even Tucker Carlson is one of them, but I know his history - his dad was Cocaine Importation Agency it is rumored. I think he's more likely controlled opposition.