NPR responds after editor says it has 'lost America's trust' : NPR

>Others questioned Berliner's logic. "This probably gets causality somewhat backward," tweeted Semafor Washington editor Jordan Weissmann. "I'd guess that a lot of NPR listeners who voted for [Mitt] Romney have changed how they identify politically."

lol. "It's not that we don't appeal to conservatives, it's that the conservatives we appeal to all become leftoids and thus it doesn't look like we appeal to conservatives." This seems like a close cousin to the argument you see of "you can't expect journos to have viewpoint diversity because once you become educated and cosmopolitan than of course you'll embrace the self-evident truths of the globohomo worldview."

>"The philosophy is: Do you want to serve all of America and make sure it sounds like all of America, or not?" Lansing, who stepped down last month, says in response to Berliner's piece. "I'd welcome the argument against that."

We all know what the argument is, we just know that journos are hesitant to shout it from the rooftops: That a significant portion of the American population are proto-brownshirts whose views cannot be platformed without the act of platforming also being an act of stochastic terrorism. These viewpoints need to be smothered from public consciousness, not amplified. Lansing knows that this argument exists, he also knows that NPR is not going to go on the record saying this.