Former NPR All Things Considered anchor David Greene performed a very pompous rhetorical dance on the latest podcast Left Right and Center out of Santa Monica NPR station KCRW. Greene is supposedly the “Center,” but he’s a typical leftist, as you can see. The topic? “This election season, will media learn from past mistakes?”
We can all guess what that means: Will the media finally defeat Trump and stop hurting the Democrats? Greene led off by claiming in 2016, people didn’t take Trump seriously, and so “the focus was really on Hillary Clinton, this career politician running a flawed campaign, and the flaws were put on full display in the media.” People actually claim Trump wasn’t facing an all-out media war as they labored to protect and promote Mrs. Clinton.
But 15 minutes in – that’s where the pomposity broke out:
DAVID GREENE: Here’s my question. I, as a journalist, believe in democracy. I support democracy. I am a — …