NPR's Skin is Thin

Truth is the sublime convergence of history and reality.

By Rich Kozlovich

On April 17, 2024 I published this piece, My Gazette: Media Collapse and Corruption II, and I opened up starting with NPR, and two cartoons, including this one, discussing the exposure of NPR being a taxpayer funded propaganda organ for leftism, and they didn't like it.  

"Yet,  NPR turned a “blind eye” to the Hunter Biden laptop story, the laptop was indeed newsworthy and that it revealed a “connection to the corrupt world of influence peddling."  Furthermore, "when it became known that [Hunter Biden's] laptop was indeed real — and not Russian disinformation as 51 former intelligence officials had claimed, NPR did not fess up to its “misjudgment.”'

'Apparently he's been suspended, and I'm sure soon to be fired, by Woke NPR CEO Katherine Maher who thinks “We All Have Different Truths".    Really?  Nah, get real Kate, truth is singular.  It's either truth, or it's not, and when it's not, in the past it was called a lie.  But then, that was in the past".    

Well, this story has taken on legs, and Silvio Canto Jr. noted: NPR makes the case for its own defunding saying:

Diversity at NPR is a one-way street going left.....I don't care if NPR wants to pander to the wokes or preach their message.  We can turn off the radio or switch to something we'd rather hear.  We can go somewhere else and get more balanced information.  Unfortunately, our taxes are funding a portion of the NPR or PBS programming.  It forces us to finance something that we don't support and that's not right.

Then we have a group that has no trouble besmirching others and yet has a mighty thin skin, NPR freaks out as conservative activist resurfaces CEO's wild tweets:

'I can't stop crying with relief,' she wrote after Biden won presidency “She wrote on X in May 2020 that while ‘looting is counterproductive,’ it was ‘hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property.’”

An NPR reporter claimed on Tuesday that conservative activist Christopher Rufo was "targeting" the outlet's CEO Katherine Maher because he shared her old social media posts, reflecting pro-Democrat and progressive ideals.

NPR last month, showed her support for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020 while criticizing former President Trump. She also espoused progressive ideals and critical race theory language, like how she regretted using a protest sign that stated, "This is crazy" because it was "abelist."

Given her history it seems pretty clear she is an issue all by herself, as Lucas Nolan notes "how she ruined" Wikipedia "by turning away from “free and open” discussions on the “online Wikipedia” because that goal represents a “white male westernized construct.”' 

Well, I've not posted a lot about NPR over the years, but I have posted these eight articles. 

1. NPR: State-Affiliated Media? by John Hinderaker April 5, 2023
2. We Now Know Why NPR Called Hunter Biden's Laptop a 'Non-Story 'By Katie Pavlich December 20, 2022
3. NPR at 50 Years: Still a Liberal Sandbox By Tim Graham May 7, 2021
   
4. Pernicious incitement to looting being pushed by NPR By Andrew Thomas August 31, 2020 
5. 'Gross' Distortion  By Lloyd Billingsley February 21, 2019
6. NPR Is Seeking a Science Editor. Science Education Not Required. By Alex Berezow — February 5, 2018 
7. Brent Bozell: NPR And PBS, The Biggest Harassment Hypocrites By L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham | December 1, 2017
8. The Conservative Fairy Tale That Won’t Go Away December 19, 2013 by Colin Flaherty
9.  What’s Katherine hiding from? May 10, 2024 by Silvio Canto, Jr. - NPR’s lady boss is dodging congressional oversight like a debtor dodges a creditor.
    

There are some things that ring clear as a bell. They've always been far left, they really are thin skinned, they're not concerned about truth, they're not concerned with facts, they're only concerned about narratives, and they are guilty of, at the very least, lies of omission, and Maher is now going to drive them even farther left.  And this is the woman that called Donald Trump a ‘deranged racist sociopath’.  Imagine that.    And they're tax payer funded.  

 

What could possibly go wrong?