{"id":79410,"date":"2021-09-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79410"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:40:32","slug":"surprising-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79410","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Nobody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This blog has accepted as a truism that a functioning representative democracy needs institutions that The People can trust &#8211; law enforcement, the judiciary, and the news media &#8211; to keep all the other institutions accountable, and thus allowing the democracy to survive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in a sense the fact that National Public Radio is <a href=\"https:\/\/lawliberty.org\/npr-losing-reason-abandoning-journalism\/?fbclid=IwAR0Oioqay89QvsfIm6WYA8xOZVLTkIV8gx2zHYBYagvgcThtsL-XBmBRD_Q_aem_Aauf0kaRmno4ah-2F09AHa4fARphzCTooYfI1nxUHHxpnENcK-MnAXsJNJfk3rBV9FBZVBvZFPeS71Oe-vInYl2mr7lI_Xa0-T7ez6YMn77wSj__bBxcuCX5el6H6Pwg5ww\">beginning to drop the pretense of &#8220;objectivity&#8221;<\/a> might almost be seen as good news:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>According to the new guidelines:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>NPR editorial staff may express support for democratic, civic values that are core to NPR\u2019s work, such as, but not limited to: the freedom and dignity of human beings, the rights of a free and independent press, the right to thrive in society without facing discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, disability, or religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>NPR\u2019s public editor, Kelly McBride, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/publiceditor\/2021\/07\/29\/1021802098\/new-npr-ethics-policy-its-ok-for-journalists-to-demonstrate-sometimes\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a> that the guidelines allow journalists to participate in such causes as Black Lives Matter demonstrations or Pride parades, though they have to discuss specifics with their supervisors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But not &#8211; one recalls when listening to Lulu Garcia Navarro plunking generous helpings of her point of view into her &#8220;Journalism&#8221; &#8211; the audience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has accepted as a truism that a functioning representative democracy needs institutions that The People can trust &#8211; law enforcement, the judiciary, and the news media &#8211; to keep all the other institutions accountable, and thus allowing the democracy to survive. So in a sense the fact that National Public Radio is beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79413,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79410\/revisions\/79413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}