Exactly. I listed to NPR for a couple of hours a day in my early 20’s and it galvanized me as a conservative, as I never agreed with any of their biased reporting.
This was long before 2011!
I was never a Liberal or Lefty, even as a young pre-teenager.
But I didn’t become openly hostile to NPR until the mid-Eighties (likely because I never listened to anything beyond Rock and Roll stations) and I still listened to Car Talk on NPR, which I enjoyed.
But somewhere along the way, I began to fiercely resent them-and the fact that taxpayer money was contributing to it.
I thought this article was a fair self-criticism. Bit it is clear that his attitude is like pissing into the wind at NPR. They aren’t going to listen, to take his advice, or to change. So I pray for their demise.
Probably thought it was true - lacking the realization that what they’ve recently ‘discovered’ was, in fact, always the case.
They very calmly make assertions, then the entire discussion is based on the premise the assertion is true. It’s like waving a spell over the listeners - as though they’re convinced they’re absorbing well accepted conclusions that ‘experts’ have arrived at. Then they repeat as though it’s accepted truth.
A total brainwash job.
“It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.
Completely delusional. NPR has been government-funded left-wing propaganda since I was a teenager, and my teen years are a long way back in the rear view mirror.”
Agreed
And not surprising at all.
Their entire world view is just a mirror.