On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” “PBS News Hour” correspondent Jane Ferguson said it was a tragedy that Uli Berliner left NPR, and that when something like this happens “people become isolated. , newsrooms just become isolated and completely tribal.” in this way. And I think the saddest thing was to see him actually leave after that. ”
“I think one of the saddest things about the rise in these kinds of conflicts is that the NPR conflict is just the latest one, which we’ve seen within our newsrooms as well,” Ferguson said. new york times, there isn’t really a major news organization in the United States that hasn’t had some kind of newsroom outrage or criticism recently. The saddest thing about this is that he ended up quitting. And if you go back in time, I don’t know which is better, but what we have now versus what we have now and people going public and talking about problems in newsrooms and saying, “Listen, diversity of opinion is It’s a place where you say, “There’s not enough, there’s too much backlash.” , this is unfair, or in the past, what we’ve seen over the years is people just quit. They will leave one news organization and gravitate toward another. So people are siloed, newsrooms are siloed, and it becomes completely tribal. And I think the saddest thing was to see him actually go after that. ”
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