Posted on 01/29/2024 10:57:57 AM PST by Red Badger
The new CEO for National Public Radio (NPR) has become instant news over social media postings that she deleted before the recent announcement of her selection. Katherine Maher is the former CEO of Wikipedia and sought to remove controversial postings on subjects ranging from looters to Trump.
Shannon Thaler at the New York Post reassembled Maher’s deleted postings including a 2018 declaration that “Donald Trump is a racist” and a variety of race-based commentary. That included a statement that appeared to excuse looting:
She is also quoted for saying that “white silence is complicity.” She has described her own “hysteric white woman voice.” She further stated: “I was taught to do it. I’ve done it. It’s a disturbing recognition. While I don’t recall ever using it to deliberately expose another person to immediate physical harm on my own cognizance, it’s not impossible. That is whiteness.”
She further stated “I grew up feeling superior (hah, how white of me) because I was from New England and my part of the country didn’t have slaves, or so I’d been taught.”
The concern is that Maher will further the advocacy journalism at NPR in framing the news to advance social and political agendas. NPR employees have already objected to efforts to maintain a neutral tone in reporting and declared “civility is a weapon wielded by the powerful.” The most interesting question is how NPR will implement its controversial policy on allowing journalists to join in protests.
NPR declared that it would allow employees to participate in political protests when the editors believe the causes advance the “freedom and dignity of human beings.”
The rule itself shows how impressionistic and unprofessional media has become in the woke era. NPR does not try to define what causes constitute advocacy for the “freedom and dignity of human beings.” How about climate change and environmental protection? Would it be prohibited to protest for a forest but okay if it is framed as “environmental justice”?
NPR seems to intentionally keep such questions vague while only citing such good causes as Black Lives Matter and gay rights:
“Is it OK to march in a demonstration and say, ‘Black lives matter’? What about a Pride parade? In theory, the answer today is, “Yes.” But in practice, NPR journalists will have to discuss specific decisions with their bosses, who in turn will have to ask a lot of questions.”
So the editors will have the power to choose between acceptable and unacceptable causes.
Maher will now play a role in determining what causes advance “human dignity” that justifies reporters crossing the line to join the protests. Given her own past advocacy, NPR may have found the perfect adjudicator for advocacy journalists.
Her word salads are almost as good as Kamala’s
“The idea for PBS/NPR came out of a time when there were three broadcast networks and no cable; there are now hundreds of channels”
My problem with NPR being a taxpayer funded “news” outfit is that it has always failed to be respectful of all citizens and instead had an obvious poltical bias and an ambition to show it. Political neutrality needed to be hard coded into its legal formation.
The only things missing are her WEF and KKK memberships................
She’s educated way beyond her intelligence.................
why the hell do taxpayers have to fund this BS
That’s just one of many ‘issues’ that never get fixed because they wouldn’t have anything to run on.
If Dem & Rep politicians came through on every campaign promise they made, what would we need them for?..........
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I demand as a conservative tax payer that PBS be de funded and sold and payment be used to go directly to pay down the debt. Or let Tucker Carlson get 50% air time to offer the truth.
Defunding National Endowment for the Arts (and/or other similar funders of filth and promoters of perversion) was attempted by George W. Bush (IIRC).
He was called names and ridiculed by the usual suspects. And then the Pubbies shrugged their shoulders and said, “meh, forget it”.
So politicians can rail against it to their constituencies at election times............
“I demand as a conservative tax payer that PBS be de funded and sold and payment be used to go directly to pay down the debt.”
I would demand a name change - to TLPR - the Leftists Public Radio, then totally lose all taxpayer funding.
That would be better than “Conservatives” getting control of it and turning it into a clone of NewsMax/Fox.
Bingo. Why are we funding a play ground for these liberal shithe@ds? So annoying.
So, they only want to use it for raising next election’s campaign donations, not for really doing something about it???
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You’ve just described the essence of the GOPe perfectly.
It has always been amusing (hilarious, disgusting) that NPR, Public TV, Public Radio describe themselves as “Nonprofit.” At the beginning of every show, they announce how proud they are to receive ‘support from’ as they list all their ‘supporters.’ This is just like commercial television advertising. “We would like to thank our generous supporters: Pepsi-Cola Corporation, ExxonMobil, and Nike.” They might as well thank the Uighurs under slave labor, in prison camps, making basketball and football gear.
NPR should be defunded and then banned.
They are raw evil.
PBS used to be referred to as the “Petroleum Broadcasting System”..........
Does this surprise anybody? Typical NPR.
Look at her CV. She’s been properly indoctrinated and placed in various positions for specific reasons. The left calls them “useful idiots”. Not burdened with critical thinking skills, analytical thought skills, not much in the way of common sense, and has spent her life in the echo chamber of the left.
A perfect fit for NPR (National Pravda Radio)...
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