News of the Week – America’s Trust edition
Trusting NPR
A 25-year veteran of NPR wrote a critical piece on the bias at the taxpayer-supported public radio network this week. The critique claimed NPR lacks a diversity of viewpoints, has no Republicans on staff, and has lost America’s trust.
NPR's chief news executive, Edith Chapin responded with a strongly-worded critique of the strongly worded critique.
“We strongly disagree with the assessment that we have lost America’s trust,” Chapin said. “We never had it to begin with. And about the charge that we don’t have any Republicans here at NPR. That’s simply not true. We checked our records and we can confirm that back in 1996 we had a gentleman named Steve “Winkey” Sproul, who was a Republican, working as a junior editor. He even voted for Bob Dole. Naturally, once we found that out he was immediately reprimanded and then fired. We heard he later went to work at his father’s dry cleaners.”
Chapin went on to note that she is proud of NPR's work and that her job is to ensure the network fulfills its mission, which is to ensure Donald Trump never, ever becomes president again.
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