U.S._ Legacy Media Gets to Taste Its Own Medicine

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Legacy Media Gets to Taste Its Own Medicine

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By Michael Dorstewitz
Friday, 07 April 2023 12:43 PM EDT
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Twitter labeled the account run by National Public Radio (NPR) as “US state-affiliated media” Tuesday night, prompting backlash from NPR and other liberal news outlets, but a nod of approval from others.

"NPR stands for freedom of speech & holding the powerful accountable," NPR CEO John Lansing tweeted Wednesday. "A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy. My full statement on the recent inaccurate Twitter label below:”

NPR is partially-funded by taxpayer dollars, but most importantly it only seems to “hold the powerful accountable” when “the powerful” happen to be conservatives or Republicans. They generally carry water for Democrats, as they demonstrated in the closing days of the 2020 presidential election.

What should have been an October surprise that would have assured then-President Trump’s reelection, never made it off the starting block. The New York Post’s stories of Hunter Biden’s “Laptop From Hell” were banned from Twitter as “disinformation.”

But legacy media such as NPR did all they could to ignore it, and NPR appeared proud of its decision.

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