On 11-6-23, the Washington Post penned the article, ‘Are you sitting down?’ The windfall (from Joan B. Kroc) that transformed NPR 20 years ago, and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:
Your first mistake is associating personalities with the quality of news reporting. The public networks have always sought to provide objective, complete, and truth-based analysis of the news they report.
That results from the efforts of their editorial management and the written interpretations by journalistic staff. Of course, the value of its presentation depends on the airway's delivery to its listening market, but putting your faith of reliable news in the delivering source is the stuff of political illusion.
But it helps explain how for-profit broadcasters seek to create a cult market rather than a reputable listening audience. Or, as Soren Kierkegkaard said, "People demand freedom of speech as compensation for freedom of thought, which is seldom used."
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