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If you think there is an issue here with another side that is worthy of consideration, why not present that other side? Explain how NPR is not a tedious, humorl
by leephillips 5y ago
If you think there is an issue here with another side that is worthy of consideration, why not present that other side? Explain how NPR is not a tedious, humorless, trend-following sack of buzzword-dependent fake journalism. Taibbi had a point of view, and laid it out. I don’t see that as a problem. It’s presented as opinion. Of course it’s exaggerated for effect—that’s just good rhetoric. I haven’t heard their broadcast in two years, but I’m sure there must have been at least one non-moronic story mixed in with the typical NPR pablum. I remember hearing some excellent stuff, in past years. I hope it’s not all gone.
EDIT: What I see as his larger point is more interesting than the NPR stuff: how their being lapped by non-traditional media is some kind of unfathomable mystery to the folks at the Times and NPR, but dead obvious to anyone outside their journalism school bubble.
- brodouevencode 5y agoI think you're on to the real point: they have a brand and a platform to protect. Substack and TDW are threats to those platforms, the existing players cannot understand why, and are using their only real tool (near-slander, instead of providing a better more honest product) to execute.
- leephillips 5y agoI agree. Instead of, “how can we do better,” it’s “how can we discredit our new competition.” It’s a course doomed to fail.