NPR essay on losing "America's trust"

Non-profit journalism has a place. People can start all the watchdogs and democracy keepers they want.

It's just going to be the kind of news rich progressives and entrenched academics want journalists to write. Or the kind of news rich fringe lunatics want. And they're not typically interested in sports.

Side note: Non-profit is pretty common in the "Christian writing realm" and some of the stuff is good and some of it is pretentious and godawful, but almost all of it is niche. And some of these niches are not only boring, but curated to be boring.

 

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Berliner was suspended.

The new CEO's old tweets are getting scrutiny, too. Reading them - there aren't many in the last two years - I'm not particularly set off, but I'm struck by the notion that she has to be the CEO almost solely to raise money for the operation.

 

Agreed with all that.

And her tweets won’t hurt her, at all, with NPR’s core donor base. She’s progressive, so are they, and so are almost all of the journalists who work for NPR.

 

Berliner sounds like a whiny prick. That second interview is just icing on the cake.

 

And if I were a biz journalist at NPR, I'd be uncomfortable with him in the editing process. He's already proven untrustworthy.

 

The more honorable move would have been to resign about 12 minutes before the free press column goes public. His continued presence at the place will make the culture harder to change. A “this person was willing to leave to make his point” has some power to it.

 

I only listen to National Public Radio for the pledge drives.

 

Raising the question: how do you write journalism for an audience wanting to live a fiction?

 

Sports journalists manage. Especially anyone covering the Cowboys.