In a podcast for The Ringer, Folkenflik recognized that "People at Fox News say 'look, this is true for The New York Times. Their brand promises to cover the world in the most sophisticated way possible, and if they fail to do that, they'll lose their readers -- if they fail to hold government accountable, and probably if they fail to go after Trump, they will lose support of its readers."
But the funniest, and yet most maddening part is Folkenflik trying to explain how Fox sees NPR: "Fox would say we're all doing brands. NPR, your brand is to provide news and not to charge people money for it, right? And to do in an earnest, you know, painfully responsible way, that's what they would say."
No! NPR wouldn't call them painfully earnest or painfully responsible! Greg Gutfeld joked they were so dreadfully boring they put people to sleep for emergency surgery.
The NPR reporter claimed “the difference is, the consequences of what the New York Times does, or NPR does, or the Associated Press does, or the Washington Post does, is not inherently corrosive to the nation’s body politic. It is not intentionally trying to put not just a thumb, but a fist on the scale, to say ‘this is what’s going to happen, and we’re going to ram it down your throats.’”
Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
