Has NPR lost America’s trust?

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Anonymous wrote:In 2021, John Lansing, CEO of NPR, described the "North Star" project as follows: "that one of his first observations upon joining NPR was that “we needed to double down our efforts” in diversity, equity and inclusion. He soon made DEI the top priority at NPR. Diversity is the “North Star” of a newly implemented strategic plan, Lansing said, because it “filters through everything that we do with all of our work.” Again--DEI was *the top priority at NPR*. Not an initiative. This was why every single story on ATC and ME felt like a DEI story; because the filter was *literally* applied. Over the two-year period following, they lost ~20M listeners--and gained no "diverse" listeners. These are just facts. They did a strategy, and their listening audience hated it. (https://current.org/2021/02/ceo-john-lansing-discusses-nprs-diversity-efforts-budget-deficit-and-growing-podcast-competition/)

DEI = Didn't Earn It.

^ evidence that we need more DEI, not less.

Until it’s no longer notable that there are X number of stories about non-white Christian men then we need more of those stories.

Not if the people who need to hear them —and I agree some people need to hear these stories—are tuning out because of overload. Sometimes beating people over the head is less effective or self-defeating.

+ 20 million (listeners who've left)