Discarding the Truth for an Imagine of Neutrality
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“Last Left, Right, and Center Episode was the most Disappointing
The following is a copy of the comment I submitted to Left, Right, and Center produced by KCRW in LA hosted by David Greene. I am a regular listener to this show. I have, on occasion, been frustrated by the lack of pushback on commentators on the show when they make either false or non verifiable statements. This last one was the worst because both the left and the right were making statements that needed evidence and none was provided. Here’s the statement:
“This is less a question than a comment. I am very disappointed with the direction that this show has taken, specifically with the last episode. It has become less of left right and center and more of RIGHT and center. Ruy was not a left perspective. Or, if he was, he was not a good representative of it. He is apparently directly engaged with the modern mass panic over campus culture, specifically regarding DEI. He made several inflammatory statements that needed more pushback for actual evidence, such as saying that universities required DEI statements of loyalty for tenure professors or that professors are being fired now in this new intolerant liberal environment. He provided none. These were throwaway comments that David Greene provided no pushback on. We were just supposed to accept the veracity of his claims of out of control liberal campuses with no evidence or pushback from our moderator David Greene. Even cursory personal research myself has failed to reveal anything similar to what he claimed.
But perhaps the worst part was at the end of the episode where they discussed the Atlantic article “The War at Stanford”. The opening anecdote is of an undergraduate student section leader with extreme opinions. Both Sarah and Ruy bandwagon on this as an example of out of control campus culture, even though it’s a single student teacher in one section with no context given for the conversation. Instead it’s just reaffirmed as an example as how CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION is out of control. Still, even with this dishonest characterization, you can’t deny the underlying free speech issue here. You can have pretty awful opinions protected by free speech, which conservatives always have wanted to be the case on campus. But Ruy dismisses this offhand by saying “it’s a computer class and not a Middle East studies class.” He says this without even knowing the context for the comments of this “student” section leader. Maybe someone else started the conversation? But David Greene, our ostensible moderator, provides no pushback to this. Despite the blatant logical inconsistency between valuing free exchange on campus and condemning speech on campus you find reprehensible, David Greene says nothing.
I love NPR. David Greene is one of my favorite reporters. But this show has devolved into one that is allowing talking heads to say their favorite talking points with no pushback. Even when what they say is blatantly false. That isn’t news. That isn’t debate. That’s just propaganda. That’s not what I listen to NPR for.””
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