“During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.”There are some things in life for which you need no official confirmation to know it’s true, like “The View” co-hostbeing a couple of fries short of a Happy Meal.
He went on to cite their obsession with the Trump/Russia collusion hoax and how there was no acknowledgment after the Mueller Report was released that they got it wrong: Corporate newsrooms that insist objectivity is their guiding principle also routinely crowdsource editorial guidelines from left-wing interest groups. An editor once shared a "style guide" from GLAAD as I was writing on trans issues. More in“When it comes to identifying and ending systemic racism,” Lansing wrote in a companywide article, “we can be agents of change. Listening and deep reflection are necessary but not enough.
The discerning reader will note while reading the article in full that Berliner inserts a lot of generously forgiving terminology like “misjudgment” and “miscues” when it’s clear that NPR’s editorial decision-making was very deliberate, and very targeted, having little to nothing to do with something as innocent as mere “misjudgment” or “miscues.”