National Public Radio, “NPR”, was founded in 1970.  It is partially funded by taxpayer money.  But like many nonprofits and NGOs, it takes in a lot of money from donors, often with political motives.

It is no secret that NPR has always “leaned left”.

On April 9th, veteran reporter Uri Berliner – who says that he fits the left-leaning NPR mold – wrote an Article titled, I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years.  Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.  In that piece he talks about how NPR changed after the 2016 election: supporting Russiagate and Adam Schiff; ignoring the laptop; and denying that Covid could have come from a lab leak.  And then adopting the policy that systemic racism was a given.  “Race and identity,” Uri says, “became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace.”  With the requisite DEI and language training. Raw and Beyond: How Om... Sarno, Chad Best Price: $1.25 Buy New $11.62 (as of 08:14 UTC - Details)

Uri says, “But what’s notable is the extent to which people at every level of NPR have comfortably coalesced around the progressive worldview.  And this, I believe, is the most damaging development at NPR: the absence of viewpoint diversity.”

Read Uri Berliner’s article here.

Apparently now nearly everyone who now works at NPR is left / Democrat?  But is NPR an outlier?  Are they the only media that transformed after Trump’s election?  The only one to have an “absence of viewpoint diversity”?

No, they are not alone – the same thing happened across mainstream media; the left-leaning outlets abandoned any pretense of balance or journalism and, like NPR, began to coalesce around adopting and promoting the progressive worldview.

Uri says, “In February, our audience insights team sent an email proudly announcing that we had a higher trustworthy score than CNN or The New York Times.  But the research from the Harris Poll is hardly reassuring.  It found that “3-in-10 audience members familiar with NPR associate NPR with the characteristic ’trustworthy.’ ”  Only in a world where media credibility has completely imploded would a 3-in-10 trustworthy score be something to brag about.” Astronomy 101: From th... Carolyn Collins Petersen Best Price: $2.66 Buy New $11.70 (as of 08:14 UTC - Details)

Nor was the transformation limited to the mainstream media.  It occurred simultaneously in social media; academia; corporations; governments; schools; and the military.  Some call it Trump Derangement Syndrome, but it was more than that; it was the culmination of over a hundred years of progressivism.  Trump and Covid were just opportunities and excuses for accelerated expansion.

Ernest Hemingway’s character, in his novel The Sun Also Rises, is asked a question, “How did you go bankrupt?”  His reply is, “Two ways.  Gradually, then suddenly.” 

The same with bankrupting the American Experiment: slowly and steadily, for over a century, we abandoned our founding principles and our Constitution.  And then suddenly, in less than a decade, journalism and free speech were replaced with propaganda and censorship.  While authoritarians, local, State and national, implemented their progressive programs and unprecedented mandates.

The new CEO at NPR that Uri refers to in his article, Katherine Maher, suspended him without pay on April 16th, just a week after his article.  Maher is one of those people for which the label “far-left” is appropriate.  Folks like her – Machiavellians – so believe in their righteousness that everything is justified, from propaganda to censorship to the use of force.  They do not feel that they have to tell the truth.

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