Comments on: NPR Struggles to Survive After Self-Inflicted Damage http://www.davidhenderson.com/2011/03/09/npr-struggles-to-survive-after-self-inflicted-damage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=npr-struggles-to-survive-after-self-inflicted-damage Writer, communications strategist, Emmy Award winning former CBS News correspondent Tue, 22 May 2012 15:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Lewis http://www.davidhenderson.com/2011/03/09/npr-struggles-to-survive-after-self-inflicted-damage/#comment-18003 John Lewis Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:53:44 +0000 http://www.davidhenderson.com/?p=8473#comment-18003 "Insiders have known that NPR has become an unpleasant political environment for any respectable journalist to work in with any sense of pride. It’s a workplace led mostly by people with no broadcast news credentials, an atmosphere of who’s-in politically, and who’s-out" That's not what I heard. And for all the miserable ineptitudes of American mainstream journalism, NPR's gaffes rank pretty low in my book. And I don't really think their problems will be solved by hiring those pseudo-news broadcast entertainers. All I know is that when Wolf Blitzer or Katie Couric opens there mouth, I have urges to self-mutilate. Juan WIlliam departure increased NPR's stature for insider journalists that I know. The guy is a political hack and his NPR position just provided cover for his propagandantics (TM). “Insiders have known that NPR has become an unpleasant political environment for any respectable journalist to work in with any sense of pride. It’s a workplace led mostly by people with no broadcast news credentials, an atmosphere of who’s-in politically, and who’s-out”

That’s not what I heard.

And for all the miserable ineptitudes of American mainstream journalism, NPR’s gaffes rank pretty low in my book.

And I don’t really think their problems will be solved by hiring those pseudo-news broadcast entertainers. All I know is that when Wolf Blitzer or Katie Couric opens there mouth, I have urges to self-mutilate.

Juan WIlliam departure increased NPR’s stature for insider journalists that I know. The guy is a political hack and his NPR position just provided cover for his propagandantics (TM).

]]> By: Wade http://www.davidhenderson.com/2011/03/09/npr-struggles-to-survive-after-self-inflicted-damage/#comment-16417 Wade Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:17:25 +0000 http://www.davidhenderson.com/?p=8473#comment-16417 I'm struggling to understand how a PR hiring decision made almost a decade ago has anything to do with ignorant comments made by a fundraiser in 2011. And to suggest that a lack of "seasoned broadcast news professionals" is the source of NPR's problems is even more tenuous. Broadcast "news" today is a national disgrace that is woefully misinforming the public. You only need to look at actual investment in news operations compared to personality-driven talking heads to figure this out. This is a tempest in a teacup driven by broadcast news outlets that rely on independent, partisan political operatives who lie their ways into meetings and then selectively edit their video to create the desired effect. NPR has a pr problem, I won't argue that, but to suggest their news is lesser quality is just wrong. Some of the best and most objective reporting on this very incident is coming from NPR. I’m struggling to understand how a PR hiring decision made almost a decade ago has anything to do with ignorant comments made by a fundraiser in 2011. And to suggest that a lack of “seasoned broadcast news professionals” is the source of NPR’s problems is even more tenuous. Broadcast “news” today is a national disgrace that is woefully misinforming the public. You only need to look at actual investment in news operations compared to personality-driven talking heads to figure this out.

This is a tempest in a teacup driven by broadcast news outlets that rely on independent, partisan political operatives who lie their ways into meetings and then selectively edit their video to create the desired effect. NPR has a pr problem, I won’t argue that, but to suggest their news is lesser quality is just wrong. Some of the best and most objective reporting on this very incident is coming from NPR.

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