re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅

Another reason why I have no confidence in NPR

Former NPR All Things Considered host David Greene, in comments flagged by the conservative media watchdog group Newsbusters, asked in his latest podcast whether journalists can “believe in democracy without being pro-Biden.”

Greene said in his recent “Left, Right & Center” podcast, which is part of the NPR Network, “I, as a journalist, believe in democracy. I support democracy.” He went on:

I believe in a free press. I believe in democracy. I believe that Donald Trump is very transparently and pretty brazenly, um, acting anti-democratic in a lot of ways right now — when he talks about his plans to dismantle institutions, to pack the federal bureaucracy with people who support him. I mean, he has praised authoritarian leaders around the world. So I think the bind that a lot of journalists are in is, how can we be passionate believers in democracy and not be biased in a presidential election?

Greene said he knows “voters get to decide,” but thinks reporters have to describe the “stakes” of the 2024 presidential election, asking, “Can you believe in democracy without being pro-Biden?”

Presstitutes are doing their damnedest to bothsides us into Fascism.

mediaite.com

I don’t see the bothsiderism. He asks if you can believe in democracy without being pro-Biden. And even the creeps at Newsbusters say:

Greene, like the vast majority of journalists covering politics, clearly believes the answer is No.

What am I missing?