If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.

It’s was the same with the aclu. I use to support them heavily with donations. They were doing good work even if I didn’t always agree with them.

I haven’t donated to them in years because they stopped doing good work

This is a liberal I would hang out with.

Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.

So on May 3, 2021, I presented the findings at an all-hands editorial staff meeting. When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, the response wasn’t hostile. It was worse. It was met with profound indifference. I got a few messages from surprised, curious colleagues. But the messages were of the “oh wow, that’s weird” variety, as if the lopsided tally was a random anomaly rather than a critical failure of our diversity North Star.

I’m not an American, but I listen to a few US podcasts. I used to really enjoy This American Life, but after their Foxconn fiasco it became harder to trust. When Trump was elected, it seemed like every episode somehow related to that. It was hard to stay interested.