NPR has a "Public editor" to monitor listener complaints and concerns, but as we all know, the majority of their listeners are going to complain they're not "Progressive" enough.
In 2021, Public Editor Kelly McBride appeared on Brian Stelter's CNN podcast to praise NPR's decision to allow their journalists to go to public protests so they can "Bring their full humanity to work with them."
When Stelter asked about NPR's critics, McBride dismissed any conservative complaints about a leftist tilt because they are not "Genuinely interested in improving NPR." McBride claimed her job was to coach NPR "To achieve its own internally stated goals. It doesn't help to be magnifying disingenuous criticism." To balance NPR is to harm NPR? NPR senior editor Uri Berliner wrote a bombshell expose for The Free Press, chronicling NPR's blatant bias on subjects from Russian collusion conspiracy theories to the Hunter Biden laptop.
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik countered with an official word salad from NPR chief news executive Edith Chapin rejecting Berliner's critique: "We're proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories," she wrote.
Folkenflik has been an NPR media reporter since 2004, and he has never interviewed me or anyone else at the Media Research Center for one of his reports on media performance, including in his multitude of hostile stories on Fox News.
In his April 9 newsletter, he skeptically stated the idea that NPR is "Supposedly embracing" a progressive view, and Berliner "Felt more aligned with the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal than NPR." So Darcy wants to deny NPR's identity is on the Left, and then he signals that it is.
Darcy expressed disgust that "Fox News quickly pounced" on the article, and it may lead to a "Jim Jordan type" to hold an oversight hearing on NPR tilt.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/public-radio-isnt-dedicated-to-the-masses/
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