NPR and media bias (April, 12th)

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We've chronicled left wing bias, gaslighting, astroturfing, and media and government censorship and malfeasance on the American Adversaries radio show for years now. 

But not since Bernie Goldberg's early 1990's book "Bias" have we had a confession from inside the gates the way we have now with whistleblower Uri Berliner, who has been at NPR for 25 years and is NPR's senior business editor.

In a letter that almost reads like a conscience cleansing or confessional, Berliner detailed how NPR went all in on trying to stop Trump by whatever means necessary in 2016 and throughout his presidency. Berliner stated that Trump's election was greeted at NPR with unanimous "disbelief, despair, and anger."  Starting with featuring Adam Schiff's lies about Russian Collusion and allowing them to go unchallenged- he was on 25 times over a year and a half- to their denial, non-coverage, and memory holing of the Hunter Biden laptop story, because in the words of one of the journalists, "it could help Trump." He further stated that "We, like a lot of other legacy news organizations, were trying to damage his presidency. Anything we could do to harm him."

In 2011, polling showed that 26% of NPR's audience was conservative, 23% middle of the road, and 37% liberal. Fast forward to 2023, post Trump, where polling showed 11% conservative, 21% middle of the road, and now 67% liberal. So, it is fair to say that Trump Derangement Syndrome cost NPR almost all of its audience who is not liberal. In other words, NPR has now morphed into a taxpayer funded mouthpiece for the left and democrats and to use the democrats own pet phrases, does not have an audience that reflects America; and through it's bias, spoken and unspoken policies, outright lies and lies of omission, represents a threat to democracy.

Berliner detailed how NPR's journalists stated in meetings that they were "defending democracy" by lying about the Biden laptop and not investigating and reporting Joe Biden's financial ties to Ukranian oligarchs- those same ties that have now cost the taxpayers about $75 billion and counting.

Berliner suggested in meetings that NPR had a problem, and cited the fact that among the editors and journalists at NPR, democrats outnumbered republicans 87 to zero. 87 to zero. Like most media and academic institutions, at NPR diversity means diversity of appearance, not diversity of thought. 

The news director declared in a meeting that "diversity is our overriding mission." NPR hired a DEI staff and "starting having regular meetings imploring us to start talking about race." Now at NPR coverage is not fair and balanced or nuanced, nope, the emphasis is now on quote "stories about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of republican policies, and oppressors versus oppressed." 

In the budget proposal released by the White House in March, the Biden administration proposed $535 million in advance appropriations for public media in 2025 and 2026, and $595 million for 2027, you know, to protect democracy. 

This is just NPR, and it is the most egregious of all because tax dollars are funding this tripe, but every other newsroom at every other major media outlet nationwide is no different, save for a precious few like Fox News, the New York Post, and Wall Street Journal. There is no diversity of thought, only diversity of appearance, and their worldview is through the Marxism of DEI, not through clear eyes, clear minds, objectivity and critical thought.

So, when we speak of the overwhelming left wing bias in all of our institutions but especially in the media, and the damage they are doing to our society, perhaps we should remember the words of Ayn Rand, who said quote " The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."