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Why are so many weirdos saying weird things on NPR? We're going to discuss this problem. We're going to peg our

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Criticism from within NPR has really stayed inside the building until just last week when a long time

editor named Uri Berliner published a piece in the free press called I've been at

NPR for 25 years. Here's how we lost America's trust. Jesse could you sum that up

for us? I can, but first I should just say I occasionally get emails from people trying to break into journalism I do think what your story tells us is

Find the most physically attractive person at the New Yorker the New York Times send them an email with photos of them attached and be like,

you are so hot, can I have a job and it'll probably work out, right?

Like it's cheaper than going to J school.

Definitely.

Yeah, this piece, I've been at NPR for 25 years. Here's how we lost America's trust. The headline sort of says it all. Berliner basically writes that well NPR has always been a somewhat liberal place,

it used to be,

or used to strive to be fair and open-minded.

He argues that that's changed in recent years

and it's led to what looks like a pretty profound exodus of listeners of the more like

centrist and conservative persuasion. He included some stats that really seem to bear that out.

So it gives a few examples. And not even not even centrist and

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