Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs
by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:07PM
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> I listened to NPR every day for 20 years
Long enough, in other words, to grow quite significantly older.
> Terri Gross and the whole lot abdicated their responsibility to be neutral.
Gross was never a journalist, and her show never had any aspirations toward neutrality. It's an interview show at the intersection of culture, politics, art and science. Of all the people you would pick as having "abdicated their responsibility", she's probably the worst possible choice, because there never was any responsibility implied or explicit.
Long enough, in other words, to grow quite significantly older.
> Terri Gross and the whole lot abdicated their responsibility to be neutral.
Gross was never a journalist, and her show never had any aspirations toward neutrality. It's an interview show at the intersection of culture, politics, art and science. Of all the people you would pick as having "abdicated their responsibility", she's probably the worst possible choice, because there never was any responsibility implied or explicit.