All things considered

Apr 9, 2024, 10:45 AM

Fascinating read:

"These are perilous times for news organizations. Last year, NPR laid off or bought out 10 percent of its staff and canceled four podcasts following a slump in advertising revenue. Our radio audience is dwindling and our podcast downloads are down from 2020. The digital stories on our website rarely have national impact. They aren’t conversation starters. Our competitive advantage in audio—where for years NPR had no peer—is vanishing. There are plenty of informative and entertaining podcasts to choose from.

Even within our diminished audience, there’s evidence of trouble at the most basic level: trust.

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 Harris Poll is hardly reassuring. It found that “3-in-10 audience members familiar with NPR said they 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 boast about.

With declining ratings, sorry levels of trust, and an audience that has become less diverse over time, the trajectory for NPR is not promising. Two paths seem clear. We can keep doing what we’re doing, hoping it will all work out. Or we could start over, with the basic building blocks of journalism. We could face up to where we’ve gone wrong. News organizations don’t go in for that kind of reckoning. But there’s a good reason for NPR to be the first: we’re the ones with the word public in our name."

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

His career is over.

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He's simply stating the obvious

You obviously didn't read

Re: All things considered

It's a great article. A key takeaway that every lefty on the board is guilty of, as far as I can tell, is this:

What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection.

The "it" is the list of over-the-top chit done by the left starting with HRC and her taking in $100s of millions and installing her own email server, sending and receiving classified information which 99.9% likely was intercepted by Russia + China, and destroying evidence - all with zero consequences.

"It" continues into the Trump administration with the fake Steele Dossier and fake Russia collusion story, as referenced in the article.

The "it" can also be Hunter Biden, HB's laptop, HB's rides around the world on Air Force 2, and his collecting millions from China and Ukraine.

Will you cata, smitty, etc. finally admit Russiagate was a miscue?

And you people, continuing in the spirit of pretending it never happened, have yet to admit what this guy is admitting - that the media and social media got Biden elected. He says

"I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump."

Attitudes like this and similar but more sinister actions by Google, FB, Twitter put Biden in the WH. So yes the 2020 election was rigged in the sense that a few influenced the many with misinformation, disinformation, and withholding information.

None of the three topics he covered were ever in doubt to the non-leftist and non-sheep. But you all in your group think echo chamber knew it all.

And, here you go again using vague terms like Populist to scare the rest of the sheep away from Trump.