NPR journalist says network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think. “Reporting on a possible lab leak soon became radioactive…Again, politics were blotting out the curiosity and independence that ought to have been driving our work.” open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/…
Response from NPR: "We're proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories.” npr.org/2024/04/09/124…
@alisonannyoung t is impossible to escape the impression that major news outlets (NYT, WaPo, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR), science news outlets (Science, Nature), Democrat Congressional leadership, and White House prefer that the public is misinformed--or at minimum uninformed--on this subject.
@alisonannyoung @NAChristakis ...In the middle of Honestly episode right now.
@alisonannyoung @zeynep The wet animal market is the most likely starting point of the Covid pandemic. That’s more strongly indicated than a lab leak. That’s where the evidence leads. Until something much more suggestive of a lab leak is shown, reporting shld reflect that disparity in the evidence. Imho
@alisonannyoung @NAChristakis @NPR used to allow comments in response to their news stories on their website. They decided years ago that that was too much diversity of thought. (My local station would leave my comments in the 'awaiting review' file for months on end.)
@alisonannyoung I ditched NPR years ago, because it was all elitist and "owned" controlled news. Why bother? They definitely ignore anyone who makes under 6 figures a year.
@alisonannyoung @R_H_Ebright Why is nobody going after Dennis Carroll former director of USAID and current member of globalviromeproject. That’s who should be on the stand
@alisonannyoung When NPR kowtowed to the Bush administration and described torture as "enhanced interrogation techniques" day after day, I stopped listening. To me, that was an unforgivable sacrifice of truth on the altar or power.