As an Aussie, I'd missed this horseshit, so thank you. I just want to note that Katherine Maher seems very nice and normal, that all these right-wing kooks are proud whiny babies, and that goddammit, now I want baklava. (The takeaway was about the nuts and not the baklava?? Proof they really are living on Bullshit Mountain. Nuts are yummy but baklava is life.)
Also, if I had had that dream it would 100% have been homoerotic which, I suppose, is why the whiny babies focused on the nuts.
So the fucking ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด decided to "Saddam bought aluminum tubes" this whole non-story so that Rufo can claim that "It's a real story, onna conna it was in the evil librul ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด!" Geez, it just used to be one gullible, sympathetic reporter like Judith Miller that would ruin the ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด' credibility. Now the entire editorial staff wants to participate.
I recall the first time NPR was attacked. I called my representative. I was horrified. Now, I give no fucks.
After 2016, I am like, meh fuckers are one of the reasons we are headed towards fascism. #ButHerEmails
#BidenIsOld
From your link:
"I was stunned in the management-level meetings and conversations where harassment victims were disparaged as troublemakers, and harassers who were still with the company were protected."
In 2016 we learned that America's media was run by rapists. NPR also.
" For most of 2016, many NPR journalists warned newsroom leadership that we werenโt taking Trump and the possibility of his winning seriously enough. But top editors dismissed the chance of a Trump win repeatedly, declaring that Americans would be revolted by this or that outrageous thing heโd said or done. I remember one editorial meeting where a white newsroom leader said that Trumpโs strong poll numbers wouldnโt survive his being exposed as a racist. When a journalist of color asked whether his numbers could be rising because of his racism, the comment was met with silence. In another meeting, I and a couple of other editorial leaders were encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton. Another colleague asked what to do if one candidate just lied more than the other. Another silent response."
Nice Polite Republicans soft-glove every conservative they interview. politician or person on the street... if you are conservative you will get ZERO obvious followup questions and ZERO pushback when promulgating demonstrable lies. this has been going on for YEARS now.
"liberal bias" at NPR is a joke. hearing an interview with Gingrinch on the BBC a few months back very well illustrated this as they called his bullshit as bullshit in real-time and repeatedly pushed back on his false claims. he was getting big mad by the end. that'd never happen on NPR. or *at most* they might correct a single lie (and will not call it that) at the very end.
As a 'a bit crunchy-granola Prius-driving liberal' who's been listening to NPR for over 20 years(WAMU is my local station, because I live like less than 30 miles north of DC), I am just laughing. If anything, I thought NPR was too kind to the PAB when he was in office, like, they tried to straight up just serve facts. The thing is, with ppl like PAB, that just doesn't really work, because you don't want to say 'POTUS PAB just gave a speech about how his body is a battery, he thinks exercise is bad' with no context, because people aren't batteries. I got straight up annoyed with them when PAB was first elected, because they carried on trying to pretend all this was totally normal.
I still listen to them, I enjoy my local people, they're pretty darn FAIR in my opinion, though as I said, I'm a crunchy liberal, though a poor one, so ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ (I'm also addicted to that old emoji).
Are the GQP also mad at PBS?(I'm pretty sure the answer is 'yes', but don't feel like googling that, because I'm a perezosa).
WAMU. The station that brought us the screechy, pathological speech of Diane Rehm -- whose voice was the least of her disabilities. Uneducated and incurious, she obviously never read anything, and didn't need to, since she made every interview into a show about herself. Locus classicus for me was when she mansplained to Simone Dinnerstein how "playing the piano is like typing."
I remember when she had a show about labor issues and invited guests from American Enterprise Institute and Brookings, but of course not a single person from organized labor.
She sucked so much and was terrible and unlistenable, and I absolutely am not referring to her vocal disorder. Even the corporate shills from USA Today whom she'd have fill in for her were better.
I literally was just reading a thing on Slate written by an ex- NPR staffer and she laid the smackdown on the article while also making the point that NPR has been "an organizational shit show for a long time".
One thing pointed out was that they are loathe to go back and re-examine an earlier story even from several years back b/c it would look like they were criticizing the original reporter/producer, etc.
I am so glad the NYT unquestioningly listens to Rufo and other conservative thought leaders. If the NYT went all โcancel cultureโ on people like Rufo, because their arguments are disingenuous and made in bad faith, they would be depriving their readers of being exposed to all sides of an issue.
For example, trying to cover Trump without accepting the conspiracy theories that make up a large part of his campaign and the Republican agenda, means NPR is super woke liberal. This is just facts as Ruto demonstrated. Not that thereโs a divergence between reality and what Trump insists happened or what Trump said or did.
Remember that time the NYT decided it didn't need a to have a public editor anymore, and was like, "no worries, there is always Twitter to keep us honest."
If NPR is so LUBral, why do they let right-wing nutjobs run their mouths without being asked any questions, or called out for lying? For solid, more in-depth on-air reporting, tune into European wireless stations.
And why do they continue to employ the useless Mara Liasson from Fox News and Eleanor Beardsley from Strom Thumond's disgraced shop (among many others)? Just asking questions.
As an Aussie, I'd missed this horseshit, so thank you. I just want to note that Katherine Maher seems very nice and normal, that all these right-wing kooks are proud whiny babies, and that goddammit, now I want baklava. (The takeaway was about the nuts and not the baklava?? Proof they really are living on Bullshit Mountain. Nuts are yummy but baklava is life.)
Also, if I had had that dream it would 100% have been homoerotic which, I suppose, is why the whiny babies focused on the nuts.
๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ต-๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ถ๐ง๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ข๐บ โ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ, ๐ธ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด,โ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ โ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐๐ โ ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณโ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด (๐จ๐ช๐ง๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ) ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ง๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ถ๐ง๐ฐ.
๐๐ถ๐ง๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ โ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ.โ
So the fucking ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด decided to "Saddam bought aluminum tubes" this whole non-story so that Rufo can claim that "It's a real story, onna conna it was in the evil librul ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด!" Geez, it just used to be one gullible, sympathetic reporter like Judith Miller that would ruin the ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด' credibility. Now the entire editorial staff wants to participate.
>> "mourning each addition" <<
I saw that, Dok.
Thatโs the kind of thing I live for around these parts!
I recall the first time NPR was attacked. I called my representative. I was horrified. Now, I give no fucks.
After 2016, I am like, meh fuckers are one of the reasons we are headed towards fascism. #ButHerEmails
#BidenIsOld
From your link:
"I was stunned in the management-level meetings and conversations where harassment victims were disparaged as troublemakers, and harassers who were still with the company were protected."
In 2016 we learned that America's media was run by rapists. NPR also.
" For most of 2016, many NPR journalists warned newsroom leadership that we werenโt taking Trump and the possibility of his winning seriously enough. But top editors dismissed the chance of a Trump win repeatedly, declaring that Americans would be revolted by this or that outrageous thing heโd said or done. I remember one editorial meeting where a white newsroom leader said that Trumpโs strong poll numbers wouldnโt survive his being exposed as a racist. When a journalist of color asked whether his numbers could be rising because of his racism, the comment was met with silence. In another meeting, I and a couple of other editorial leaders were encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton. Another colleague asked what to do if one candidate just lied more than the other. Another silent response."
Berlinerโs friends call him Jelly Roll, but noone calls himself that. Also FFS how is someone like this employed by you, MSM?
Mmm, I could definitely hide my face in some baklava right now.
I stopped listening to NPR a long time ago because it had became too both-sides annoying, pretty much the opposite of what Berliner describes.
Wut the ever-loving fuk.
Nice Polite Republicans soft-glove every conservative they interview. politician or person on the street... if you are conservative you will get ZERO obvious followup questions and ZERO pushback when promulgating demonstrable lies. this has been going on for YEARS now.
"liberal bias" at NPR is a joke. hearing an interview with Gingrinch on the BBC a few months back very well illustrated this as they called his bullshit as bullshit in real-time and repeatedly pushed back on his false claims. he was getting big mad by the end. that'd never happen on NPR. or *at most* they might correct a single lie (and will not call it that) at the very end.
omg, yes THIS.
Americans have no idea of what we're putting up with.
I am so tired of hearing that caring about the opinions of people who are not straight white men is somehow pandering.
You know what is pandering? Only caring about straight white men.
Unaware and unironic: NYPost: NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns after bombshell expose reveals networkโs pervasive left-wing bias
As a 'a bit crunchy-granola Prius-driving liberal' who's been listening to NPR for over 20 years(WAMU is my local station, because I live like less than 30 miles north of DC), I am just laughing. If anything, I thought NPR was too kind to the PAB when he was in office, like, they tried to straight up just serve facts. The thing is, with ppl like PAB, that just doesn't really work, because you don't want to say 'POTUS PAB just gave a speech about how his body is a battery, he thinks exercise is bad' with no context, because people aren't batteries. I got straight up annoyed with them when PAB was first elected, because they carried on trying to pretend all this was totally normal.
I still listen to them, I enjoy my local people, they're pretty darn FAIR in my opinion, though as I said, I'm a crunchy liberal, though a poor one, so ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ (I'm also addicted to that old emoji).
Are the GQP also mad at PBS?(I'm pretty sure the answer is 'yes', but don't feel like googling that, because I'm a perezosa).
WAMU. The station that brought us the screechy, pathological speech of Diane Rehm -- whose voice was the least of her disabilities. Uneducated and incurious, she obviously never read anything, and didn't need to, since she made every interview into a show about herself. Locus classicus for me was when she mansplained to Simone Dinnerstein how "playing the piano is like typing."
I remember when she had a show about labor issues and invited guests from American Enterprise Institute and Brookings, but of course not a single person from organized labor.
She sucked so much and was terrible and unlistenable, and I absolutely am not referring to her vocal disorder. Even the corporate shills from USA Today whom she'd have fill in for her were better.
But I do love Kojo Nnamdi's voice, tbh!
I literally was just reading a thing on Slate written by an ex- NPR staffer and she laid the smackdown on the article while also making the point that NPR has been "an organizational shit show for a long time".
One thing pointed out was that they are loathe to go back and re-examine an earlier story even from several years back b/c it would look like they were criticizing the original reporter/producer, etc.
I am so glad the NYT unquestioningly listens to Rufo and other conservative thought leaders. If the NYT went all โcancel cultureโ on people like Rufo, because their arguments are disingenuous and made in bad faith, they would be depriving their readers of being exposed to all sides of an issue.
For example, trying to cover Trump without accepting the conspiracy theories that make up a large part of his campaign and the Republican agenda, means NPR is super woke liberal. This is just facts as Ruto demonstrated. Not that thereโs a divergence between reality and what Trump insists happened or what Trump said or did.
Reality has a liberal bias.
Edited a few things.
Let's all share our 2020 dreams about Kamala! I dreamed that she and I were discussing short stories by Alice Munro.
Remember that time the NYT decided it didn't need a to have a public editor anymore, and was like, "no worries, there is always Twitter to keep us honest."
If NPR is so LUBral, why do they let right-wing nutjobs run their mouths without being asked any questions, or called out for lying? For solid, more in-depth on-air reporting, tune into European wireless stations.
And why do they continue to employ the useless Mara Liasson from Fox News and Eleanor Beardsley from Strom Thumond's disgraced shop (among many others)? Just asking questions.
Eleanor Beardsley sounds so completely bored with life. Why does she bother working on radio anymore?
Wait, Mara Liasson is from Fox? How.... I'm feeling really clueless and naive now....
Only as a paid part-time hack, but you can hear her contempt for truth, decency and democracy in almost every report she does.