Wednesday, May 07, 2025

NPR is a small piece of a vast subsidized groupthink bureaucracy, which needs to be cut.

NPR Should Be Axed Because it's Anti-Thought, Not Anti-Trump - Matt Taibbi
The station doubtless thinks it’s engaged in “public service journalism” by cranking out piles of stories with headlines like 
Its editors either don’t realize they’ve built an abjectly partisan political operation, or, more likely, they’ve been at this so long, they believe ideological uniformity is truth, and by extension, just “the news.”...
...the CPB would properly be shut down overnight if it was as near-exact a mirror of Fox or the RNC press page as NPR is to Democrats.Org
Even if one stipulates it’s too small to need squashing, NPR has come to represent that far larger system of subsidized conformity, infused in everything from Internet search algorithms to AI to academia, whose scale is only beginning to become visible...

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