Garrison keeler GOT WOKE / ME TOO MOVEMENT CANCELED...

AND IT WAS A REALLY REALLY STUPID Example...at the very height of the ME TOO SCARE....

I THINK HE PUT his hand on some skanks shoulder and complemented her? It wasn't a Harvey Feinstein hotel room rape scenario or a Charlie Rhodes bathrobe shakedown at his apartment...

Mr. Jones wrote:

That's not fair. Joe Stranosa fondles and sniffs little girl's hair and doesn't get canceled.

RayR wrote:

And the activists have spoken!!!!

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

Katherine Maher is um…..interesting.

ZRX1200 wrote:

In a scathing account from within National Public Radio (NPR), Senior Editor Uri Berliner blasted the company for open political bias and activism. Berliner, who says that he is liberal politically, wrote about how NPR went from a left-leaning media outlet to a virtual Democratic operation echoing narratives from figures like Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.). The objections have long been voiced, including on this blog, but this account is coming from a long-standing and respected editor from within the company.

Beliner details how NPR, like many media outlets, became openly activist after the election of Donald Trump to the point that the company now employs 87 registered Democrats in editorial positions but not a single Republican in its Washington, DC, headquarters.

In his essay for The Free Press, Berliner notes that after Trump’s election in 2016, the most notable change was shutting down any skepticism or even curiosity about the truth of Democratic talking points in scandals like Russiagate. Berliner said that NPR “hitched our wagon” to Schiff and his now debunked claims.

Berliner says that he was rebuffed in seeking a modicum of balance in the coverage about the coronavirus “lab leak theory,” the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the 2016 Russia hoax.

As discussed on this blog, NPR repeated false stories like the claims from the Lafayette Park riot. Berliner gives an account that is strikingly familiar for many of us who have raised the purging of conservative or libertarian voices from our faculties in higher education:

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https://jonathanturley.org/2024/04/10/npr-editor-blasts-the-public-funded-company-for-political-bias-and-activism/ 

Katherine Maher, the chief executive of NPR, is facing online criticism for years-old social media posts criticizing former President Donald J. Trump and embracing liberal causes.

The posts, published on the social media platform Twitter, which is now called X, were written before she was named chief executive of NPR in January. They resurfaced this week after an essay by an NPR staff member who argued that the broadcaster’s leaders had allowed liberal bias to taint its coverage.

“Also, Donald Trump is a racist,” read one of Ms. Maher’s posts in 2018, which has since been deleted. Another post, from November 2020, shows Ms. Maher wearing a hat with the logo for the Biden presidential campaign.

“Had a dream where Kamala and I were on a road trip in an unspecified location, sampling and comparing nuts and baklava from roadside stands,” Ms. Maher wrote, an apparent reference to Vice President Kamala Harris. “Woke up very hungry.”

Ms. Maher, who had not worked in the news industry before joining NPR, was the chief executive of the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the popular online resource Wikipedia, when she wrote many of the posts that were now being criticized.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/media/npr-chief-executive-criticized-over-tweets.html 

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American University of Beirut, Member of the Board[38]
Council on Foreign Relations, Member[38]
Sunlight Foundation, Member of the Board[38]
2011: Youth for Technology Foundation, Member of the Board[39]
2013: Truman National Security Project, Policy Fellow, National Security Fellow, and Research Fellow, Democracy & Human Rights
Initiative[40][41]
2013: Open Technology Fund, Advisory Committee Member[42]
2016: World Economic Forum, Member, Global Network Council on the Future of Human Rights[43][44]
2018: Oxford Union, on Technology and Empire[45]
2019: World Economic Forum Young Global Leader[46]
2021: Atlantic Council Democracy & Tech Initiative, Senior Fellow[47]
2022: US State Department, member of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board[32][33]
2023 Adventure Scientists, board chair[citation needed]

I’ve been an NPR listener since the mid nineties and I will disagree that it’s become this polarized in the last few years. The last few years it’s just in everything…..not just one or two programs.

I also disagree that defunding isn’t the answer.

This baby needs to go with the bath water and I don’t say that with glee.

ZRX1200 wrote:

Sorry, but they shouldn't get any **** money.

You want.to compete you don't need a taxpayer funded backstop. If they're that great they don't need it. Same for Amtrak...i can make a case for USPS but...that one was born with a govt tit attached to it.

DrMaddVibe wrote:

Read the tax payer pays for 1% of NPR’s budget. I’d be for cutting their earmark down by 50% and see if they can actually consider all things.

Would be funny to hear End Racism for 30 minutes and then watch them swallow their tongues for the same amount of time with a Pro Racism guest.

Must listen radio.

8trackdisco wrote: