An essential ingredient in the stew of hysteria over a second Trump term is heavy-breathing concern for “vital institutions” like the press. On the badly named public-radio podcast Left Right & Center — originating from KCRW, the NPR affiliate in Santa Monica, California — former NPR morning host David Greene furiously pushed the panic button in a year-end review on December 29.
Greene is supposed to be the “center” in this program’s name, but he never is. Pondering a Trump re-election, he kvetched about how he “lived through” Trump’s presidency at NPR, where they had the “hardest conversations” ever in newsrooms.
They couldn’t figure out how to cover Trump. The more they would cover him, the more they wanted to “fact check” him, and “then your fact-checking became this very self-validating thing.” But this self-righteous…
