Trouble In Liberal Land! NPR Staffers Wail About Diversity 'Crisis'

Don't look now, but National Public Radio is having a bit of a "diversity" crisis -- as in racial diversity. NPR has never had a diversity of viewpoints. Washington Post media reporters Paul Farhi and Elahe Isadi pointed out that there's an internal furor over departing NPR stars Noel King, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, and now evening host Audie Cornish.

“If NPR doesn’t see this as a crisis, I don’t know what it’ll take,” tweeted Ari Shapiro, Cornish’s All Things Considered co-host. He wrote that the organization was “hemorrhaging hosts from marginalized backgrounds.”

Shapiro quoted a tweet from September by another NPR program host, Sam Sanders, who name-checked recently departed staffers and commented, “Look at all the incredibly talented hosts from marginalized backgrounds who’ve left NPR recently... I believe in the mission of public radio; this trend is antithetical to that mission.”

The tricky thing about trying to have a "woke" newsroom is it seems like there's never a level of satisfaction. The grievances are never-ending, because "systemic racism." And it seems like the younger the hires, the more aggressively they complain.

This leads to "innovations" in media ethics like allowing NPR staffers to participate in protests like Black Lives Matter events because "it’s really important for people to bring their full humanity to work with them if they’re going to effective, successful journalists." And who cares if half of America feels their views are ignored or smeared? Chalk that up to "white fragility."

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