Matti Friedman
The important @TheFP essay by @uberliner about NPR gets the usual responses: Not fair, staff is "at risk," and of course, you're a racist. It happened to me and will happen to any journalist who writes what they see. Meanwhile the institutions continue the slide into irrelevance
Switching Codes with Eric Deggans
Many things wrong w/terrible Berliner column on NPR, including not observing basic fairness. Didn't seek comment from NPR before publishing. Didn't mention many things which could detract from his conclusions. Set up staffers of color as scapegoats: https://loom.ly/QPLdX1w