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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: COVID Diaries and the implosion of NPR

The Chicago Way

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (04/19/24): Joining the discussion with John Kass & Jeff Carlin is author & director of medical intensive care at Cook County Hospital in Chicago for over 25 years, Dr. Cory Franklin, to talk about his interesting new book, “THE COVID DIARIES: 2020-2024: Anatomy of a Contagion As It Happened”. Plus, Kasso […]

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And the You hear those pan flutes? You know the ones that suggest a workers paradise in Peru one that suggests workers from the mountains and workers from the hills get together and

0:31.4

Basically love each other in brotherhood?

0:34.0

Yeah, something like from the NPR?

0:37.0

Well, here's another thing from NPR.

0:39.0

Yuri Berliner, longtime editor.

0:42.0

Here is his Twitter resignation letter.

0:45.0

I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution

0:50.0

where I have worked for 25 years. I don't support calls to defund NPR. I respect the

0:59.3

integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism.

1:06.9

But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR that I cite in my

1:19.5

three press essay.

1:26.0

Eury Berliner, welcome to the club. This is what happens when the left takes irrevocable control of a newspaper,

1:32.0

in my case, NPR in your case but you know what they

1:37.0

always controlled NPR they just got worse and we'll talk about that

1:42.1

Corey Franklin our good friend, doctor, essayist,

1:47.0

and author of a new book on the COVID diaries.

1:51.0

And Jeff Carlin, executive producer at WGM radio and me I'm John

1:57.4

Cass husband father and Greek Orthodox Christian an editor of John Cast News.com.

2:06.2

And where are you?

2:08.3

As NPR falls apart, as more people realize what happens when the left grabs institutions and

2:18.1

this time forces you to pay for their pleasure. You're on the Chicago Way podcast on WGM Plus.

2:26.2

So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude to power and it is it's the Chicago way

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