OPINION:
Perpetuating the Trump-Russia collusion story while burying the Hunter Biden laptop story are to National Public Radio what falling doors and tires are to Boeing (“NPR editor resigns after bombshell expose confirming network’s left-wing bias,” web, April 17).
In an April 9 essay for The Free Press, former NPR senior editor Uri Berliner reported that NPR went after “Russiagate” and “turned a blind eye” to the Hunter Biden laptop story because they didn’t like Donald Trump. In NPR’s D.C. newsroom, he found that all 87 editors were registered Democrats.
In college, when I asked my classmates who were majoring in journalism why they’d made that choice, the answer was always “to change the world.” It was never “to report the news fairly and accurately.” Journalists will always feel a greater sense of purpose by interjecting their opinions into news stories. The problem is, without taking macroeconomics (which isn’t required of journalism majors), you don’t have the foundation to form an educated opinion on how the world should be changed.
If I hadn’t taken courses in macroeconomics, I might think that the profit motive was inherently evil, that people are poor because others are rich and that socialism is the only cure. It’s painful to watch a panel of journalists with zero combined credits in economics talking about what’s best for the economy.
The fix is not to defund NPR, but rather put an end to its process of sifting through thousands of news stories every day to find a handful of negative ones and then making them into a crisis. It’s OK to celebrate achievement — even if it is Donald Trump’s.
BEN FURLEIGH
Port Charlotte, Florida
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