NPR CEO Katherine Maher says she regrets her years-old tweets calling Trump a fascist and a deranged racist: "I regret those tweets, I wouldn't tweet them against today. They represented a time when I was reflecting on something that the president had said rather than who he is."
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Also, there are some great exceptions, but a lot of member stations are basically classical or jazz music stations when you take away the NPR content.
It's not like this is a surprise strategy
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances
On the other hand her comments make ME regret ever giving a single cent to an organization with such a sniveling , eager to appease fascists, “both sides” normalizing, two faced, coward as CEO.
I used way less words
...right?
Count me in that group of loyal NPR listeners that are royally pissed off that she admitted to regretting genuine feelings. The genuflection actually adds to Trump's leverage and gives his Fox enablers an evergreen soundbite.
Bending the knee REPULSIVE!
You, a tax payer, don’t actually create our national currency
You’ve been brainwashed by right wing rhetoric
They weren’t going to let her say much at all anyways because that’s what Donnie told them to do.
We remember when you had a spine.
The DUTY of journalists is to hold power to account, not bow & scrape when power pushes back
https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/freedom-press#:~:text=The%20freedom%20of%20the%20press,and%20report%20on%20government%20wrongdoing.
@npr.org literally “obeyed in advance”
Why should she have to apologize for her personal opinions, but zero “right wing” NeWs orgs never have to? That would have been the correct answer.
She caved on bullshit for no reason. NPR is done with me. They have no credibility and once you lose people's trust, you've lost it.
Fucking hell, why are people still doing this
https://youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI?feature=shared
Fair enough in light of the fascist backlash now.
- I wouldn't tweet them again today.
Sure, for political reasons.
- They represented a time when I was reflecting on something that the president had said rather than who he is.
Doesn't mean they're not true.
Oh please don’t turn NPR into a Right wing wormhole!
I don't see a reason she should cave
Always about the money.
Decades of video evidence!
She's a dissapointment
They will cut NPR funding.
Republicans have been foaming at the mouth to cut NPR funding for years. They finally have all the votes to get it done.
It beats a small budget cut & lunatics screaming on Fox for her head, & a mailbox full of death threats from people who don't know how to write.
I just listened to the, "Radio IQ Spring Fund Drive".
They stressed, "6% of our budget is Federal Funds (FF)".
My Decision: IF PR says it will continue Without FF-I'll Increase my Recurring Donation.
IF PR continues to take FF-I'm Out.
Simple As That.
Bullying works, doesn't it?
Never apologize for telling the truth.
Does she regret calling him those things because she was wrong, or because the fascist racists are now in power?
No apology for telling the truth.
Those are factually true statements
Now that America is a banana republic under fascist, terrorist crook, Donald Trump you see all these people obeying in advance
"I don't shake hands with Nazis." (Charlie Chaplin)
Trump is a deranged racist and authoritarian
You’re welcome
Everyone in power would rather remain in power in an empire than not in power in a republic
How any woman ok with voting for/liking a rapist is beyond me.
That's like a fly befriending a spider and then wondering why it's being attacked.....☠️👀
And if this is her surrender, maybe people shouldn't listen to NPR
It’s heartbreaking
THE
FUCK
OUTTA
HERE
Perhaps.
I’m with Katherine!
If you can't stand up to fascism, you shouldn't be in leadership in journalism
Everyone wants someone ELSE to lead the charge.
(She's either switched sides or this is all about keeping her position. Or both?)
Its clear Maher is being slammed up against the wall before she’s shot…
She, like most desk job liberals, are over-accommodating and weak-willed by nature, and will cede any position if enough people from the right get mad at them.
Something something fascism