NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep joined Semafor’s Mixed Signals podcast hosts Max Tani and Ben Smith last Friday to discuss the current battle over NPR’s public funding. There were several puzzling claims made throughout, including claims that Fox’s personnel decisions and Hunter Biden laptop coverage are analogous to NPR’s.
Tani tried to goad Inskeep into labeling Republicans hypocrites on the matter of defunding, “You interview a lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives, on your show, you mentioned that you interviewed Steve Bannon, recently. I'm really curious if any of the folks that you have interviewed, particularly on the right, you know, and who have been maybe satisfied and thought that your coverage has been fair, if any of those people are the people who are out there today, you know, calling for the defunding of NPR.”
Steve Bannon appeared on NPR? So what? If a Democrat appeared on Fox, would a liberal say that makes Fox neutral?
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