Nothing worse than obsolete approaches to new ideas — and National Public Radio needs a reboot to keep up with what might well be the biggest story in human history.
NPR owes its listeners an apology, especially to those for whom exposure to the UFO controversy depends exclusively on public radio. Last week, its 1A segment performed a major disservice to the radio equivalent of the New York Times.
Like many legacy media institutions, National Public Radio has begun a slow drift into the increasingly competitive field of UFO news. There was a time, before the 12/17 NYT scoop that ripped the quilts off the military’s hush-hush interest in UAP, when practically any coverage of The Great Taboo, however ill-conceived, rated applause on general principle. It didn’t even have to be substantive. But those days are over. And if NPR has any hopes of staying relevant in this rapidly expanding content market, management needs to get a lot smarter. And quickly.
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