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From taxpayer lifeline to a Menlo Park mansion tour, NPR rediscovers itself—as a progressive podcast with a tote bag problem
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ACT I: The Autopsy Report
If you walk through the halls of NPR today, you won’t hear jazz or investigative exposés on goat herding in Wisconsin. You’ll hear echoes—of a mission that once aspired to national unity, now reduced to donor-name pronunciations like “Alma from Berkeley,” “Dylan from Brooklyn,” and “Anonymous Tech Executive from Cupertino.”
Katherine Maher, the new CEO, recently went full Marie Antoinette with a podcast mic:
"Let them eat identity politics."
After years of gasping for breath beneath the “Sword of Damocles” that is Congressional oversight, Maher finally watched it fall—and then posted a TikTok about liberation from federal funds, corporate heteronormativity, and "epistemic fascism."
Spoiler: The corpse twitched.
And instead of CPR, Maher gave it a GoFundMe page.
ACT II: Weekend Edition (Now with Fewer Viewpoints)
Once beloved for inoffensive jazz intros and civil debate over infrastructure bills, NPR has now joined the pantheon of ideological reanimations. Think CNN but with fewer viewers and more tote bags that say things like “I Only Drink Fair-Trade Feelings.”
Maher—whose résumé includes radical digital activism, post-truth TED Talks, and enough anti-Trump tweets to crash a Tesla—has turned NPR into a podcast farm for upper-class trauma narratives and artisanal rage.
The audience?
A micro-demographic of guilt-ridden lawyers and “progressive polycules” who own five MacBooks but can’t change a flat tire.
ACT III: Fundraising Among the Afflicted
Where did Maher go to rescue the budget?
Not to Iowa. Not to Georgia. Not even to DC.
She went straight to San Francisco—the last bastion of bathrobe Marxists with Bitcoin wallets. There, she wined and dined at the Hewlett Foundation, which gives millions to climate activism, anti-policing documentaries, and Gavin Newsom’s hair mousse fund. She didn’t meet the public. She met the boardrooms. She didn’t eat cafeteria fries. She nibbled on lab-grown foie gras.
Somewhere in the foggy alley just three blocks away, a fentanyl addict smoked next to the sign for NPR’s affiliate station.
And in Menlo Park, Katherine Maher declared:
“We’re finally free.”
Trump Comments
“NPR? I thought they were bankrupt years ago. They went from Morning Edition to Woke Edition. I listened once—got accused of cultural appropriation just for tuning in.”
“Katherine Maher—very weak. Very weak! I saw her fundraising in California. She raised millions from people who think showering is colonialism.”
“Back when I was president—still am, by the way—we cut off their funding. Now they’re just Soros Radio. I call it PR for the People’s Republic.”
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Final Thought
NPR died not with a bang, but with a tote bag. Once the moral conscience of sleepy Sunday afternoons, it has now been embalmed in the scented oils of West Coast progressivism. The irony? Maher finally made NPR independent—by making it dependent on billionaires with woke agendas and enough reusable cutlery to start a vegan cult.
The corpse pats itself on the back, even as rigor mortis sets in. And in the background, a dulcet voice says:
“This episode of 'Planet Woke' was made possible by listeners like you. And George Soros.”
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