We at NewsBusters have often explained that “public” broadcasters like NPR pay reporters to be “Extremism” correspondents, but strangely, the ideological spectrum seems to go from the “far right” extreme to some sort of center-left. They cannot seem to acknowledge with the slightest fraction of honesty that there is any identifiable or newsworthy extremism on the Left.
One new Exhibit A comes from NPR’s “Public Editor” Kelly McBride. In a February 20 article on “News Literacy,” she attempted to explain how the taxpayer-funded radio network deploys their correspondents on the “extremism” beat.
NPR has covered a broad spectrum of extremist views. In January, Morning Edition host Leila Fadel interviewed extremism researcher Eviane Leidig about how some social media influencers embrace antifeminist and white nationalist views in their…
