NPR - Diversity

[ceeboo]

Lol....take a wild ass guess, but your comment is a perfect example of how when one party has a monopoly of a entity, in this case this forum being ultra liberal progressive , just how bias it can be. Likewise PBS having a huge tax payer funded endowment had a real bias. Consistency is thrown in the waste basket, and noted.

Are you going to cry?

Are you going to make very post you write be worthless, uninteresting, and not worthy of reading?

[Molok]

Are you going to cry?

Are you going to make very post you write be worthless, uninteresting, and not worthy of reading?

You're right, I should be more productive like you, and start five different threads and refuse to discuss anything about the subjects of them.

[canpakes]

https://youtu.be/n3jozYhku-w?t=2

Markk, this is a link ‘n’ run. What content are you wanting to share?
-c-

Lol....take a wild ass guess, but your comment is a perfect example of how when one party has a monopoly of a entity, in this case this forum being ultra liberal progressive , just how bias it can be. Likewise PBS having a huge tax payer funded endowment had a real bias. Consistency is thrown in the waste basket, and noted.

Same question, then, for you as was suggested to Ceeboo: examine the output and make your complaints about that output.

As for your link ‘n’ run … it’s a link ‘n’ run.

[Some Schmo]

Are you going to make very post you write be worthless, uninteresting, and not worthy of reading?

MAGA and projection go together like peas and carrots.

[Bret Ripley]

An organization vilified by rightwing media lacks Republican - identifying editors? I'm shocked.

Yet by most metrics NPR has the gall to consistently rank among the most reliable news sources available. The bastards.

[Kishkumen]

An organization vilified by rightwing media lacks Republican - identifying editors? I'm shocked.

Yet by most metrics NPR has the gall to consistently rank among the most reliable news sources available. The bastards.

So I wonder what ceeboo's reaction is to this information. I think we have identified some solid reasons why there are no MAGA editors at NPR.

Ceeboo, what are your thoughts on some of these suggestions?

[ceeboo]

Yet by most metrics NPR has the gall to consistently rank among the most reliable news sources available. The bastards.

So I wonder what ceeboo's reaction is to this information. I think we have identified some solid reasons why there are no MAGA editors at NPR.

Ceeboo, what are your thoughts on some of these suggestions?

My thoughts: While there may be truth in these various suggestions, it not only doesn't matter, but it also completely ignores the elephant standing on the earlobe.

NPR is funded (partially - debated about how much of their funding comes from the federal government) by tax dollars. Given this, it seems unimaginable that the editorial staff numbers are 87 to 0.

You might not be too surprised to learn that I, a tax paying American citizen who leans right of center, finds this extremely troubling.

[Marcus]

So I wonder what ceeboo's reaction is to this information. I think we have identified some solid reasons why there are no MAGA editors at NPR.

Ceeboo, what are your thoughts on some of these suggestions?

My thoughts: While there may be truth in these various suggestions, it not only doesn't matter, but it also completely ignores the elephant standing on the earlobe.

NPR is funded (partially - debated about how much of their funding comes from the federal government) by tax dollars. Given this, it seems unimaginable that the editorial staff numbers are 87 to 0.

You might not be too surprised to learn that I, a tax paying American citizen who leans right of center, finds this extremely troubling.

I did not know the numbers 87, "to" and 0 were such troublemakers. I would think elephants on earlobes would give one pause long before encountering an 87 in the wild would.

[Kishkumen]

My thoughts: While there may be truth in these various suggestions, it not only doesn't matter, but it also completely ignores the elephant standing on the earlobe.

NPR is funded (partially - debated about how much of their funding comes from the federal government) by tax dollars. Given this, it seems unimaginable that the editorial staff numbers are 87 to 0.

You might not be too surprised to learn that I, a tax paying American citizen who leans right of center, finds this extremely troubling.

I don't think it is healthy either. I am not sure what the answer is. Most conservatives are against affirmative action, but this seems to be an affirmative action argument. A taxpayer-funded institution, it seems, must(?) have balanced ideological representation?

OK. This is one of the things I wrestle with in such efforts.

I'll provide you an example from my own life that I have brought up a couple of times before. I would love to see more Black Classics scholars. There are some. There are some excellent ones, in fact. But most young Black people whom I try to recruit to study Classics, young people who are interested in it and good at it, tell me that their parents are not paying for them to go to college in something so impractical. I have been told this numerous times. So, what do we do when, of their own choosing, certain people seem less inclined to choose to be somewhere or do something?

Republicans have been trashing NPR for decades. I am not surprised by their absence there. So, now the answer is to double down on the attacks on NPR? Suggest that NPR is really the culprit here?

There are some doctrinaire progressives, not a few of them Classics professors, who question the continued viability or justification for the study of the Classics because of the obvious representation problem. My disagreement with this approach is one of the reasons I do not consider myself a Progressive. Am I going to agree with MAGA people using the same logic on NPR?

Hardly.

[Chap]

Republicans have been trashing NPR for decades. I am not surprised by their absence there. So, now the answer is to double down on the attacks on NPR? Suggest that NPR is really the culprit here?

Indeed. What Republican journalist would WANT to work for NPR? So what is NPR supposed to do, go out there and kidnap Republican journalists at gunpoint?

In the UK, it is more or less that case that at any given moment both the left and the right of the political spectrum contain people who claim vociferously that the BBC is biassed against them.

I see that as a sign that the BBC is, on the whole, functioning fairly well.