Has anyone else noticed that NPR is more "direct" recently?
A couple weeks ago I heard two stories that were much more “direct” (best word I can think of) than the normal NPR nice dance of avoiding criticism. I can’t remember what the stories were.
Not biased but just not as 🤔 polite as usual.
I just heard them preview a story about efforts to remove MLK and his legacy.
They opened with MLK Day being traditionally being a free day at National parks. As MLK is a national day of service it would be a great chance to go help clean up parks in the face of DOGE cuts 👀. They included that Trump has eliminated MLK and Juneteenth as free days but his birthday now is. Then they played audio of Charlie Kirk “…who was also gunned down” disparaging MLK as “an awful person” and that he wasn’t worth idolatry. They had on Andrew Lawrence on to talk about a piece he wrote for The Guardian.
I’d suspect NPR had mostly avoided the Kirk story when it was a really hot topic. Actually playing audio of Kirk showing his real stripes was very surprising to me.
Maybe it’s just me.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/01/19/mlk-day-national-holiday
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Yes, I have
It's refreshing.
