NPR and Truth

For John, BLUF:  NPR is scamming the average taxpayer.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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NPR’s queen of the Karens

From The Washington Examiner, by Reporter Conn Carroll, 16 April 2024 10:50 am.

Here is the lede plus four:

Sometimes, a person enters the public spotlight and is such an embodiment of an established stereotype that it seems impossible for him or her to be a real person. If Tom Wolfe wanted to capture the essence of arrogant, alienated progressivism, he would reject NPR’s new CEO, Katherine Maher, as too unbelievably on point.

The daughter of wealthy parents whose wedding was announced in the New York Times, Maher grew up in a wealthy white suburb of New York City before studying at the American University in Cairo, the Institut français du Proche-Orient in Syria, and finally New York University.

She then got internships with the Council on Foreign Relations and Eurasia Group in London and Germany before landing a job in New York City at UNICEF. She had stops with the National Democratic Institute and the World Bank, among other global nonprofit groups, before rising to become the CEO of Wikimedia in 2019.

It would be impossible to create a resume of a person more disconnected from Americans and more intertwined with the wealthy, urban, globalist elite who run the largest banks, media companies, and nonprofit groups in the United States. In other words, Maher has the perfect resume to run NPR.

And her tweets prove she is the perfect person for the job.

My favorite comment, via "X", of new NPR CEO, Katherine Maher, is (via InstsPundit):

Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.

It appears Ms Maher did not get enouogh Superman when she was young.  The concept of "Truth, Justice and the American Way".

Without truth there can be no justice.  Without truth we are all just lying to ourselves and each other.  Ms Maher's line makes me think of another historic character, Pontius Pilate, who asks, "What is truth"?.♠

Mr Tom Knigjhton, at Tilting at windmills, wrote:

The problem is that, among other things, NPR is expected to be an unbiased news source. Most mainstream media outlets pretend to be, but NPR gets taxpayer money, which means it’s paid by all of us, be we liberal, conservative, libertarian, or some other flavor of ideology.

But as we now know, not only is their reporting not unbiased but there’s absolutely no interest in ideological diversity.

And there is the rub.  Neither CEO Maher, nor the News Room are interested in the truth or in the nuances that make news interesting.  So, they are scamming us.

Is this all Mr Trump's fault?  Would things have been different if, in 2016, the Republican Convdention had nominated Senator Cruz or Senator Rubio?  How about if they had given us Governor Sarah Palin?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff
♠  Found in John's Gospel.