Tag: Viewpoint
NPR’s Problems Won’t Be Solved by “Viewpoint Diversity”
An embattled NPR editor denouncing the network’s practices fails to understand them—or the practice of journalism.
The National Public Radio headquarters in Washington, DC.
(Samuel Corum / Bloomberg)
I’ve never liked NPR. Throughout its long and venerable half-century run, the public radio network has served as a seamless delivery system for lifestyle smugness. When my mother would reflexively flip it on during long car rides in my adolescence, I’d greet its confident dispatches from the East Coast citadels