{"id":2224623,"date":"2024-04-18T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-ceo-of-npr-is-everything-wrong-with-the-news-media\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T19:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T23:04:26","slug":"new-ceo-of-npr-is-everything-wrong-with-the-news-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-ceo-of-npr-is-everything-wrong-with-the-news-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The new NPR CEO epitomizes media flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-ceo-of-npr-is-everything-wrong-with-the-news-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2224623&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The description details the history of the long-running NPR show &#8220;Car Talk,&#8221; delving into the format and \u2063purpose of the\u2062 program. It further discusses the \u200devolution of NPR&#8217;s content and management approach, particularly focusing on the new \u2062CEO, Katherine Maher, and her perspective on truth and journalism.\u2062 The description provides insights into the renowned NPR show &#8220;Car Talk,&#8221; exploring \u200cits \u200bformat and objectives. It also delves into \u200bthe transformation of NPR&#8217;s content and leadership style, with a specific emphasis on the recent appointment of Katherine Maher \u200cas CEO and her views on truth and journalism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you don\u2019t remember \u201cCar Talk,\u201d it was a radio show that lasted more than three decades on NPR, until it ended in 2012. The idea was that people called in with practical questions and dilemmas relating to their cars, and then the hosts dispensed advice \u2014 whether it was about car maintenance or repair or whatever. The show no longer exists, though, because the NPR that broadcast that show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of a show that actually addresses people\u2019s problems in real life, based on knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else actually works, has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for some time. Shows that cover the news from an objective factual perspective, to the extent possible, are also out of style. Instead, for the past decade, NPR has been controlled by activists who have devoted themselves to two primary pursuits. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at every conceivable opportunity. That\u2019s why they run segments on diverse gender representation in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/10\/1104266396\/lgbtq-communitys-battle-for-the-dinosaur-emoji-key-moments-from-jan-6-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dinosaur emojis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  for example. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second pursuit has been shutting down stories that are inconvenient for the politicians who are voting to spend your money to finance NPR\u2019s operation. Infamously, NPR\u2019s executive editor, Terence Samuel, claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal wasn\u2019t a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPRpubliceditor\/status\/1319281101223940096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">real story<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d He said it was a \u201cdistraction.\u201d And instead of firing Samuel, NPR promoted him. American University even invited Samuel to deliver a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WFvV24PWfF4&#038;lc=Ugz7bLd9ECugl009UZF4AaABAg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lecture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  entitled, \u201cHow Journalism Can Save Itself and Democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s harder to think of a better way to summarize what NPR has become. They aren\u2019t simply bumbling propagandists. They\u2019re also incredibly self-satisfied and narcissistic. They believe that they alone can save American democracy. And they think that, in order to do that, they need to control what kinds of information you can see. It\u2019s not that they thought the Hunter Biden laptop story was \u201cunvetted\u201d or \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d or whatever the excuse was. They always knew it was factually accurate. But just because something is factually accurate, in NPR\u2019s eyes, doesn\u2019t make it true. According to NPR, truth is subjective; whatever\u2019s most expedient politically for them is what\u2019s true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a long time now, this position \u2014 which really amounts to nihilism \u2014 was unstated at NPR, at least publicly. But now it\u2019s explicit, thanks to a new CEO and president by the name of Katherine Maher who recently took over at NPR. Maher very clearly does not believe that the truth is objective. She also doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019s worth trying to find out what the truth may be. This is an extraordinary position for the chief executive of a publicly funded news organization to have, but it\u2019s what Katherine Maher believes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a speech of hers that\u2019s been making the rounds this week. It\u2019s from back when she was running Wikimedia, which is mainly known for Wikipedia. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is what passes for good public speaking these days. But she speaks in a robotic, sing-songy voice that makes it sound like she\u2019s a kindergarten teacher lecturing a bunch of 5-year-olds. She has the tone of someone who believes firmly in the superiority of her own intellect, even though what she\u2019s saying is so abjectly stupid. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says truth is subjective, and that everyone in the room has his or her own \u201ctruth.\u201d But here\u2019s the problem. Truth exists because reality exists. Either something is a part of reality or it isn\u2019t. To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-a-brief-guide-to-leftist-destruction\/\" title=\"PRAGER: A Brief Guide To Leftist Destruction\">deny objective truth<\/a> is to deny reality. And you can\u2019t even deny reality without asserting a reality \u2014 the reality that there is no reality. So the relativistic view is not only false, but so false as to be incomprehensible if you think about it for more than two seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maher\u2019s remarks are the same idiot relativism that you can hear from any freshman philosophy student, but she goes to great pains to make her take seem nuanced and innovative. She talks in circles and ends back at \u201cthere are many different truths.\u201d She says this even after acknowledging that <em>the truth<\/em> exists. Again, those are two contradictory ideas, but that doesn\u2019t bother Maher for a second. Like most of our overeducated elite class, she\u2019s incapable of speaking without a parade of cliches while making tedious and absurd ideas sound far more complex than they really are. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1350-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also according to Maher, we have \u201cglorious chronicles to the human experience in many different cultures\u201d because we have \u201cmany different truths.\u201d But that\u2019s not what these \u201cglorious chronicles\u201d show us. Instead, they show us that the truth is objective and eternal. Different cultures and people across time have had different ways of perceiving the truth \u2014 talking about it, accessing it, embracing it, or rejecting it, yes. But the truth remains the same. That is what makes the study of history, and different cultures through history, so fascinating. It is precisely because all of these different people across time and space lived in the same reality, and yet had wildly different ways of existing in it, and responding to it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Katherine Maher doesn\u2019t seem to understand this, or at least she pretends not to. She repeats her theory of truth at every possible opportunity. Here\u2019s some more footage from a conference two years ago. Maher begins by explaining that Galileo was prosecuted for saying that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun, which is a basically accurate if wildly oversimplified retelling of that historical episode \u2014 although it doesn\u2019t prove what Maher seems to think it does. Then she makes an incredible statement. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe truth, by definition, is malleable,\u201d says Maher. Really? By whose definition exactly? You can make the case that postmodernists thinkers and their precursors \u2014 like Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and Rousseau \u2014 might agree with that statement. But you won\u2019t hear many traditional thinkers (prior to, say, Heidegger) saying that the truth is \u201cmalleable.\u201d So why should we adopt the postmodern belief and not the traditional one? There has to be some reason to side with one school of thought and not another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In any event, if truth is merely \u201cmalleable\u201d \u2014 if there\u2019s no knowable, essential structure to it \u2014 then definitions themselves are just language games. There\u2019s no significance to any of it. It\u2019s just a power struggle. When you get down to it, that\u2019s really what Maher is saying. She\u2019s asserting that \u201cthe truth\u201d is \u201cmalleable\u201d as an act of political will because she doesn\u2019t believe in any objectively true definitions. She keeps saying, over and over again, the words \u201cthe truth,\u201d only to make it clear that she has no idea what that is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And from that very shaky foundation, Maher starts to derive some very shaky corollaries. At one point, Maher implies that people don\u2019t trust the media anymore not because the media lied to them, but because people have different mistaken \u201ctruths\u201d that they\u2019re clinging to. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s another revealing statement that Maher makes without any justification. She\u2019s implying that democracies aren\u2019t (or can\u2019t be) xenophobic or nationalist. But the Greeks were both. Greek democracies were very much \u201cxenophobic\u201d \u2014 if that\u2019s how you want to put it \u2014 and nationalist in nature. There\u2019s no doubt about that. So why is democracy the goal here? Is that even her goal?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Really, her only given justification for thinking our traditional conception of truth is inadequate, and needs to be reworked, is that the \u201ctruth\u201d we have now is the product of a history which is also political. \u201cHistory is written by victors\u201d is one of the many cliches she invokes throughout her speeches. And she says that excludes various potential sources of knowledge like \u201cindigenous\u201d perspectives and practices, or women with their \u201cemotional intelligence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that\u2019s not incompatible with the reality that \u201cthe truth\u201d is real, is universal, and many aspects of it have been uniquely uncovered by Western thought, science, and technology. Even if you bought into Maher\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-exclusive-evidence-china-was-colluding-with-the-bidens-and-providing-information-on-how-to-defeat-president-trump-in-the-2020-election\/\" title=\"BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Evidence China Was Colluding with the Bidens and Providing Information on How to Defeat President Trump in the 2020 Election\">talking points<\/a> about a \u201cplurality of perspectives\u201d being better than \u201cone alone\u201d for getting at \u201cthe truth,\u201d the fact remains that it took 2,000 years of Western, Eurocentric, supposedly white supremacist, heteronormative, misogynist history for us to reach the point at which these minor tail-end improvements she\u2019s suggesting could be made. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It took 2,000 years of history to create the civilization that Maher is now critiquing. And if she thinks this new approach will cause some kind of \u201cscientific revolution,\u201d it won\u2019t. The more likely outcome is that it will destroy the civilization that was built over thousands of years. That is the point after all. And this is the essence of what we call wokeness. The Left likes to put conservatives on the spot by demanding a definition of \u201cwoke.\u201d Well, here it is \u2014 the rejection of truth as a category. That\u2019s what wokeness is, when boiled down to its most fundamental parts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for Maher, it\u2019s tempting to dismiss all of this footage as the ramblings of a single woman who has no idea what she\u2019s talking about. But it\u2019s a bit more significant than that. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maher <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was selected to lead NPR<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, after an allegedly careful vetting process. There\u2019s no way that NPR didn\u2019t scrutinize her beliefs, which Maher has expressed many times over the last few years in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kanye-wests-new-flame-julia-fox-discusses-working-in-sex-dungeons-exploring-boundaries-everyone-is-a-freak-and-we-know-it\/\" title=\"Kanye West\u2019s New Flame Julia Fox Discusses Working In \u2018Sex Dungeons,\u2019 Exploring Boundaries: \u2018Everyone Is A Freak And We Know It\u2019\">public social media posts<\/a> and numerous speeches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Twitter, Chris Rufo has exposed some of the more deranged posts from this woman. There are really too many to mention, but suffice it to say, she\u2019s like a woke AI bot that churns out the least original woke liberal woman talking points you can possibly imagine. She uses the word \u201cfolx,\u201d with the \u201cx\u201d at the end. She says \u201cLatinx.\u201d She called Donald Trump a racist and cried with joy when Biden took office, of course. She wrote that she once dreamed of going on a road trip with Kamala Harris eating \u201cnuts and baklava.\u201d She expresses her happiness when she logs into the public WiFi at a COVID clinic and the password is \u201cHeSheThey,\u201d recognizing the lived experience of nonbinary patients. She calls the Internet \u201csexist.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At one point, she apologized for using the phrase \u201cpeople who identify as women,\u201d because it\u2019s a form of \u201ctrans-erasure.\u201d She writes about the importance of \u201ctransit justice\u201d and vegetarian Thanksgiving, and rants about the \u201cmale gaze\u201d and \u201clate-stage capitalism,\u201d even as she drew a salary of $800,000 a year. There are many more examples; Chris Rufo\u2019s feed has categorized many of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To burnish her intellectual credentials even further, Maher even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/njhochman\/status\/1780638504097022442\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sat on a panel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  with Lizzo at a Ted conference where tickets cost more than $10,000. The name of Lizzos\u2019 talk was, \u201cThe Black history of twerking \u2014 and how it taught me self-love.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Maher doesn\u2019t need lessons on self-love, she has that covered. What she\u2019s looking for now is power. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a video posted by the Atlantic Council and unearthed by Rufo, Maher explains that the First Amendment \u2014 which you\u2019d think journalists would support, since it\u2019s the one thing keeping journalists out of prison \u2014 is not a sacred constitutional principle. Instead, she says, it\u2019s a \u201cchallenge\u201d to be overcome. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The only people who view the First Amendment as a \u201cchallenge\u201d are government censors who want to shut down any dissent by force. And now that she\u2019s running a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-state-media-releases-video-of-two-alabama-veterans-captured-in-ukraine\/\" title=\"Russian State Media Releases Video Of Two Alabama Veterans Captured In Ukraine\">state-funded media outlet<\/a>, that\u2019s exactly what Maher is. She\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-continues-govt-funded-censorship-enterprise-through-cisa-fcc\/\" title=\"Biden Admin persists with state-funded censorship via CISA, FCC\">state-funded censor<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To that end, she no longer believes in transparency. The irony is that, when she was running Wikimedia, Maher kept talking about the importance of showing people everything that\u2019s going on inside the company. Every edit on Wikipedia, she said, is public for a reason. Disclosure is sometimes \u201cpainful,\u201d she said, but it\u2019s necessary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transparency is key, she said at the time. But apparently this is one of the malleable \u201ctruths\u201d that Katherine Maher has decided to discard. As you\u2019ve probably heard, she just forced out an NPR whistleblower who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/17\/media\/npr-editor-uri-berliner-resigns-after-bombshell-expose-reveals-networks-pervasive-left-wing-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  a damning <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">column<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in the Free Press about the organization\u2019s corruption and overwhelming bias. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/npr-suspends-editor-who-accused-network-of-bias-issues-final-warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspended<\/a> this 25-year veteran of NPR without pay because he pointed out that the organization is now completely one-sided. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, the whistleblower wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s not the kind of transparency that the new NPR CEO appreciates, apparently. She\u2019s happy to talk about how NPR employs too many white men. But she definitely doesn\u2019t want to talk about political bias, or how useless NPR has become.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It used to be that NPR at least pretended to be embarrassed about this. In 2011, NPR\u2019s CEO at the time, Vivian Schiller, resigned after a Project Veritas sting exposed what she thought about conservatives in the Tea Party movement. To summarize: she didn\u2019t like them. Schiller had to resign once her views came to light. Back then, NPR believed that the appearance of fairness was at least a little important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that was the \u201cCar Talk\u201d era of NPR. Now they believe their CEO can categorically reject the idea that there\u2019s any truth to report on. This is a belief system that\u2019s now in vogue in newsrooms all over the country. It\u2019s a big reason for the rise of transgenderism, COVID hysteria, and all the media\u2019s lying we had to endure under the previous administration. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the belief system that insists that men can become women, because the meaning of the words \u201cmen\u201d and \u201cwomen\u201d are subjective. And it will spell the end of Western civilization unless we reject it. That is, of course, the point of everything Katherine Maher is saying. In the absence of truth, there is only a struggle for power. And right now \u2014 and hopefully not for much longer \u2014 it\u2019s people like Katherine Maher who have that power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car Talk,&#8221; a long-running NPR radio show that ended in 2012 after over three decades, featured callers seeking advice on car-related issues. 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