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Ken Stern worked for NPR from late 1999 until the spring of 2008. He came on as the executive vice president. During his time he oversaw the dismissal of NPR icon Bob Edwards and the launch of the now defunct NPR Berlin based out of Germany’s capital (it was replaced by KCRW Berlin which is owned by and based on the NPR/Eclectic Music station KCRW in Santa Monica/Los Angeles). As a CEO of NPR, Stern worked at getting NPR onto digital platforms and expanding its international news coverage. Before he was let go, he wanted to get a new building that would serve as NPR’s headquarters.
Back in those days he was a typical left leaning media person. Today, after spending a year with so-called right wingers, Stern is a different man. His new book “Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right” will be released tomorrow. It is his account about life in middle America and how he as a former left leaning person just did not connect with middle America or even try too. It was just in an environment where everybody was progressive. It almost sounds like the lyric line from the Judas Priest song “Breaking The Law.”
You don’t know what it’s like, you don’t have a clue
If you did you’d find yourselves doing the same thing too
We don’t want Stern to break any laws (even out of survival), but he for sure did not know what it’s like or had a clue about those who were leaning Republican and/or conservative. He wanted to know, and just as Rob Halford sang he is doing the same thing too. The left does not get it because most of them don’t want to get it. They like to be ‘right’ about being left.
Former NPR CEO opens up about liberal media bias | New York Post
Most reporters and editors are liberal — a now-dated Pew Research Center poll found that liberals outnumber conservatives in the media by some 5 to 1, and that comports with my own anecdotal experience at National Public Radio. This may seem like an unusual admission from someone who once ran NPR, but it is borne of recent experience. Spurred by a fear that red and blue America were drifting irrevocably apart, I decided to venture out from my overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood and engage Republicans where they live, work and pray.
Final Thoughts
While Stern swung right, the current CEO Jarl Mohn (who has a radio background and is an investor; creator of the cable channel E!; contributor to mostly progressive political campaigns, and served as chairman of the Southern California ACLU) is pushing for NPR news stations to be equal to–if not better–than their commercial counterparts.
Unlike the commercial attempts at progressive talk radio, Mohn’s strategy is working, and NPR stations in San Francisco, Washington DC, Seattle, Denver (to name a few) are actually beating the heritage commercial news/talk stations. After all these years, NPR news has accomplished what Air America, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, and Stephanie Miller failed to do: Long term success in doing left-leaning News/Talk radio. (Thom Hartman, however, is trying to get cleared on certain public radio outlets, especially “community” formatted stations.)
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