04-09-2024, 05:26 PM
(04-09-2024, 12:41 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I think one of the things that is important to understand in all of this is that NPR itself provides some of the big shows, but there are quite a few productions in the NPR network that are locally produced and funded that are not as impacted as much by this culture shift.
I personally stopped relying on NPR for my daily/weekly news coverage for the most part a few years back. With so many news podcasts available to me I still listened to "The Daily," but it is just one among roughly five or six that I listen to every day for my audio news fix. It is interesting to hear about the change in culture that it seems the new CEO has accelerated in the organization and it makes sense.
I will still enjoy the more in depth stories from things like Throughline and 1A, which I maintain do an outstanding job on covering topics important to us in the present day, but Reuters and the AP will still be my go-to news apps for US centric news reporting. This does highlight what I have maintained from the start, though, and that is that we must always use multiple sources for our news consumption because even the most neutral sources still have editorial biases.
I knew you'd be the first, and possibly only, person to respond to this. What concerns me about this story, and its confirmation of what many of us already knew is that I think the steady decay of journalistic standards is a far greater threat to our democracy than Trump, as it, if not fixed, will far outlive him. As I've said previously, Trump initially had some points in regard to the media, but most of his claims were baseless and/or hyperbolic. Now I fear the opposite is closer to the truth. Maybe this gentleman having the courage to come forward is a sign that this is changing, but journalism as an ethical profession has really taken a beating and public trust of it is probably at record lows. Without a fourth estate grounded in principles of accuracy, fairness and, at least some degree of impartiality I fear that the opportunities for misinformation to become the norm will grow exponentially.
I would think those constantly beating the drum of Russian propaganda would be in full agreement here. Maybe the threat is too subtle for many to see it?
