More that shows something only about you. You're very willing to be misled by people you think you agree with, Inskeep in this case. Berliner nowhere implied Inskeep is a Dem.
More that shows something only about you. You're very willing to be misled by people you think you agree with, Inskeep in this case. Berliner nowhere implied Inskeep is a Dem.
It only matters to people who want to politicize it. Which fortunately doesn't include the millions of people who will be howling mad if anybody tries to defund NPR over this silly bullshit.
No, it matters in reality, in causing bias, obviously. Ideological diversity matters in a newsroom for the same reasons gender and racial diversity matter.
NPR and its core audience believe in magic, that they can avoid bias due to lack of diversity.
So what you're saying is that on a staff of 100 journalists, 80 of which are registered Democrats, it matters whether the other 20 are registered Republicans and _not_very conservative unaffiliated voters, all of whom voted straight Republican tickets in the last election. That makes no sense in a country in which the number of unaffiliated voters grows every day.
More that shows something only about you. You're very willing to be misled by people you think you agree with, Inskeep in this case. Berliner nowhere implied Inskeep is a Dem.
No, but he disregarded - intentionally or not - that unaffiliated voters are often pretty conservative.
Doesn't affect the obvious point he made, that there's an overwhelming imbalance between party affiliation. That matters.
It only matters to people who want to politicize it. Which fortunately doesn't include the millions of people who will be howling mad if anybody tries to defund NPR over this silly bullshit.
No, it matters in reality, in causing bias, obviously. Ideological diversity matters in a newsroom for the same reasons gender and racial diversity matter.
NPR and its core audience believe in magic, that they can avoid bias due to lack of diversity.
So what you're saying is that on a staff of 100 journalists, 80 of which are registered Democrats, it matters whether the other 20 are registered Republicans and _not_very conservative unaffiliated voters, all of whom voted straight Republican tickets in the last election. That makes no sense in a country in which the number of unaffiliated voters grows every day.
More magical thinking. There's not the slightest reason to think your scenario is likely, and very strong reason to think it isn't.
Again, Ideological diversity matters. NPR and its defenders remain in denial of the obvious.