“I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.”
—NPR CEO Katherine Maher
Elon Musk posted the video of Maher saying this…
I can’t find the date of that speech or the context of the quote, but what possible context could justify it? If that isn’t pure Big Brother, what is? “Can’t let the truth get in the way of progress!” This is the totalitarian mindset that (I hope) was one of the things enough voters rejected a week ago. This is the ends justifies the means ideology embraced by the Axis of Unethical Conduct, including the news media that lied, dissembled, covered up and broadcast false narratives during the campaign and, of course, long before.
Musk is uncharacteristically mild in his reaction. No, of course NPR shouldn’t be supported by tax dollars when it is run by people who think like Vladamir Lenin. But the fact that Maher wasn’t …