The DrsC started our marriage too many years ago listening to NPR on the clock radio as we woke up. It was liberal but you could kinda ignore that and enjoy the fun parts, of which there were plenty. Garrison Keillor was mostly entertaining and the Magliozzi brothers’ show fun too.
We stopped decades ago when it became too much to ignore. NPR had became the radio version of MSNBC, a Democrat Party propaganda outlet and nothing more.
The last thing we still tuned in for was Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers’ show about auto repair. When one of the brothers died and they stopped playing reruns, we quit cold turkey and never went back.
I report this history because someone on the inside, Uri Berliner, has written a plea for balance in their coverage. I read it nodding my head throughout.
Berliner is a 25 year veteran of NPR. He reports how the drift leftward looked from the inside, and it is the story of an organization “buying” the bogus idea this is a bad country, even though nearly everyone in the third world would move here if they were able.
Berliner could have echoed Ronald Reagan’s famous comment that he still had the values he’d had as a Democrat but the Party had gone off and left him behind. Berliner appears to feel this way about the organization to which he’s given his life.
If you once were a regular NPR listener but have drifted away, go read what Berliner has written and learn what it was like to serve an organization that has lost its way.
