NPR is bitter than Donald Trump took away their federal funding, even though their CEO claimed they've never displayed a bias. On Thursday's All Things Considered, they touted MeidasTouch, leftist screamers who capitalize on the people who hate Trump with a passion and want to be told he's always failing.
All Things Considered didn't consider including any critics of MeidasTouch.
It seemed like they didn't want to admit anyone in the media are on the Left. Anchor Ailsa Chang began:
CHANG: Many traditional media organizations are struggling, but the second Trump presidency has been an opportunity for a growing number of new media outfits who position themselves as the resistance to Donald Trump. NPR's Bobby Allyn met up with the man behind a YouTube channel that's challenging mainstream outlets through its nonstop criticism of Trump.
NPR is struggling alright, but calling the legacy media "mainstream" and "traditional" isn't fooling anyone. But then Bobby Allyn touted MeidasTouch ranter Ben Meiselas as the Joe Rogan of the Left:
ALLYN: MeidasTouch leads a pack of progressive media companies, including Pod Save America, More Perfect Union and the Young Turks, that publish opinionated videos and podcasts. Overall, YouTube streamers and political podcasts are dominated by conservatives and the so-called manosphere -- Joe Rogan being the biggest. But MeidasTouch has at times topped Rogan's weekly audience, a feat no left-leaning streamer has ever been able to, leading some to ask, will Ben Meiselas become the Joe Rogan of the left?
MEISELAS: People wanted me to be that. I think we need the opposite of a Joe Rogan.
ALLYN: While Meiselas claims he's less divisive than Rogan, the MeidasTouch style is like an amped-up MSNBC. But he says he doesn't share any DNA with cable news, mostly because he doesn't try to include the other side.
In their online article, they admit: "Rogan's 20 million subscribers on YouTube far outshine MeidasTouch's 5 million."
But wait: Does Allyn ever watch MSNBC? How often are they including conservatives? In the online version of the article, NPR described Meidas Touch like this: "It's unapologetically partisan, pushing a center-left worldview aligned with mainstream Democrats, like an amped-up MSNBC." So "mainstream Democrats" are "center-left"?
Then we get Meiselas suggesting the "mainstream" media sound pro-Trump when they cover his speeches!
ALLYN: Figures from YouTube show that MeidasTouch receives around 300 million views each month. That's about the same as Fox News' and MSNBC's YouTube channels. Meiselas likes zeroing in on Trump's speeches to focus on the parts he says most of the media is ignoring.
MEISELAS: They would say Donald Trump talking about making things affordable. And I'd watch these speeches, and I'd be like, that's not what -- like, literally -- did you watch the same speech that I just watched? That's not what he said. You know, maybe that was 30 -- why'd you do his work for him? You edited the speech to give him the best 30-second soundbite. That was the craziest speech I've ever seen.
But when your business model is perennially screechy, you can only be trusted to find everything disastrous for Trump. NPR noted the video they watched him make was aggressively headlined: "DISASTER THURSDAY AND WALLS ARE CLOSING IN are in all caps, which he says adds to some urgency."
Urgency is another word for "panic posting," which is what Meiselas claims about Trump. Here's a snippet of their panic-pushing YouTube page. It's kinda funny that "oasis of civility" NPR is pushing this gunk:
