Instead, I’d like to focus on two specific claims made in the article, which are presented as clear-cut evidence that NPR has lost its way—and which echo arguments that are regularly trotted out by conservatives as evidence of left-wing media bias in modern American politics:

1. The number of self-proclaimed Republicans who listen to NPR has plummeted and its listener base is now mostly from the left-wing of the political spectrum. (This is true).

2. The number of people in the newsroom who are bona fide Trump supporters is zero, which is a crisis of “viewpoint diversity” that must be urgently fixed.

…both represent a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s going on in American media—and how journalists and the press more broadly should behave in an era of hyper-polarization, where the distribution of truth and lies are not equally balanced between political parties.

I worry that the framing of this “war” against the “Kingdom of Lies” can obscure the fact that mainstream media does lie. It just lies more skillfully than people like Trump. Its lies have tremendous moral consequences, such as the 80 year ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the snuffing out of Palestinians lives and voices. So for the author to turn to mainstream media and say “you’re my ally in this war against The Kingdom of Lies”, it’s hard for me to see him as anything other than yet another pro-regime lemming, another fool.

Uncomfortable as it may be, there is a truth to everything and you can find it if you look hard enough, the problem is the truth is often horribly depressing and no one wants to watch/read it (ratings/clicks go down), or the truth is inconvenient to the powers that be, so it never makes it in the first place. Then any time you bring up a serious problem to people they say some dumb shit like ‘You must be fun at parties’. Well, I am, because I’m capable of having more than one mode.