Thursday, April 18, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 16:58)
A Former NPR Employee Drops a Bombshell (And Now he is Gone): Senior Business Editor Reveals Scandal of the Media Class and the Leftist Ideological Worldview of National Public Radio

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. by The Free Press (Uri Berliner)
Breaking news—the media class is liberal: A controversy at NPR reveals the scandal of the elite media class by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)

Part II (16:58 - 22:03)
Your Tax Dollars are Funding Progressive Ideologies: Why Do Our Elected Leaders Allow This?

Part III (22:03 - 25:10)
Worldview Will Always Come to Light: The Inescapability of Ideology and Politics, Especially in the Newsroom

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, April 18, 2024.
0:07.8	I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.2	a Christian worldview. The very fact that most of the elite
0:15.8	media skew left and frankly way left is now far beyond dispute, but that's not to say it's
0:21.4	far beyond controversy, and just in recent days that
0:23.9	controversy has escalated at National Public Radio and it led yesterday to a
0:29.0	whistleblower at National Public Radio resigning and citing the crackdown by the management of NPR
0:36.0	criticizing his criticism as the reason for his resignation.
0:40.0	Yuri Beliner is the man who is at the center of this controversy.
0:44.0	He was until yesterday a senior business editor at National Public Radio.
0:48.5	And in a piece that was published online at the free press,
0:51.0	Berliner went on and he raised the issue as to why NPR is
0:55.6	mistrusted. And he got right to the point when he made very clear that the
1:01.2	network has lost America's trust precisely because it is now so predictably and
1:05.6	egregiously leftist. So not just liberal, but frankly to the left of liberal. What we're
1:11.7	seeing here by the way is a picture that is replicated
1:13.9	throughout the mainstream liberal media. You now have older people on the staff if
1:19.2	they are still clinging on. They're being displaced by younger
1:23.4	leftist who are continually even leftier when it comes to their
1:28.3	political and ideological positions. We have seen this happen at the New York
1:32.4	Times. We have seen it happen across so many of the elite media institutions
1:36.5	where people who were liberals just a generation ago were replaced by leftist and now the further
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