Opinion: NPR Doesn't Hide Hatred of Republicans and Fox News

National Public Radio left Twitter in a hilarious huff. In a statement, CEO John Lansing announced, "We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public's understanding of our editorial independence."

This contains multiple layers of comedy, writes Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. For starters, Graham writes NPR is a platform that has demonstrated an incredibly aggressive interest in undermining the credibility of Fox News Channel and the public's understanding of how it balances out NPR's relentless liberal bias and censorship.

According to Graham, "NPR media reporter David Folkenflik reflects that obsession. He's filed 13 stories attacking Fox from various angles since Feb. 28, and he's not the only NPR reporter dropping bombs on Murdoch's castle.

Terry Gross

"On April 13, NPR's 'Fresh Air with Terry Gross' devoted an hour to New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters exploiting the negative publicity from Fox's ongoing legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems. The suit has embarrassed Fox with all kinds of internal messages showing they didn't believe wild conspiratorial claims of voter fraud, insisting former President Donald Trump won easily.

"As Gross proclaimed, Peters is the author of a book called "Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted."

"The book carries an endorsement from Joe Scarborough: "A bracing account of how the party of Lincoln and Reagan was hijacked by gadflies and grifters who reshaped their movement into becoming an anti-democratic cancer that attacked the U.S. Capitol."

"This isn't something that raises any alarm at NPR. On the contrary, it's exactly the kind of author NPR seeks to promote. 

"NPR and their liberal friends imagine conservatives are a cretinous collection of mouth-breathing dullards and conspiracy kooks. Inside their silo, they never consider that NPR could be accused of being a 'powerful media organization' that can be accused of covering our democracy in a 'dishonest way' in 2020. They dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as a "pure distraction" without moving a muscle to investigate.

"NPR prances about mocking Fox for supinely serving its ideologically fervent base in denial of inconvenient facts. But NPR supinely serves its own ideologically fervent base. They are icons of insincerity in claiming they're courageously independent guardians of democracy who operate without fear or favor."

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