Uri Berliner’s expose of the ideological unanimity at NPR reminds the Republican half of America that they send their taxpayer dollars to Washington to have their viewpoints excluded or ridiculed as “far right” hate.
Back there in the Stone Age of 2023, Elon Musk, he of X that is formerly Twitter, antagonized NPR and PBS because – ready? Musk had made some changes to “state-affiliated” media designations, applying the term to both of those outlets. They’re state-funded, but not state-affiliated?
While stripping the designation from media outlets tied to governments like those of Russia and Iran, Musk had the nerve – the nerve! – to apply it to, among others, America’s NPR and PBS along with the UK’s BBC and Canada’s CBC.
This is in the news a year later after CNN’s Oliver Darcy, he of CNN’s Reliable Sources, talks of life after X, and looks…
