Alicia Montgomery (NPR correspondent) talks about those
by 88_92WSND (2024-04-20 13:23:59)

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"We regularly set up live interviews with Republican officials and Trump surrogates. But it was tough because NPR always loved guests who would be insightful, honest, and—perhaps above all—polite. There were plenty of people who’d for years fit that description across the partisan divide in official Washington, but they were scarce in the Trump administration. We changed the format of live political interviews, adding what we called a “level-set.” That would be three-ish minutes after a conversation with a political operative or elected official when a host and NPR reporter would try to fact-check what had just been said."

Montgomery is a long time NPR correspondent, and her Slate article is very critical of NPR's news -- not for the same reason as Uri, but she reaches many of the same conclusions about the character and quality of recent NPR journalism.

I listen to NPR - have since I was a kid. But it got to the point for a while (it's been better lately) where we'd start placing bets which stock phrase would get thrown into the story - things like "...in the age of Trump" or "especially people of color", or the like.





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