Not really my thing, but this section suggests he likely has a valid point. Sometimes, being right is the most unforgivable thing you can be.
Back in 2011, although NPR’s audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to America at large. Twenty-six percent of listeners described themselves as conservative, 23 percent as middle of the road, and 37 percent as liberal.
By 2023, the picture was completely different: only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal. We weren’t just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals.
An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America.
I mean, that data in itself doesn't say much, conservatism in the US changed dramatically in 2015/2016. The people who call themselves conservative now are different to back in 2011. For example the education levels are a lot lower among conservatives and a lot higher among liberals than before.
The binary model of political alignment that you're perpetuating isn't accurate and doesn't help. There are 300M+ people in America and their feelings about issues and politicians are all over the place.
I guess "the nominally-funded by public grants in amounts about two orders of magnitude down from total funding" doesn't have the same rhetorical sizzle.
And it's not "ignoring" people to realize that those who choose Truth Social or Newsmax maybe just don't want what NPR does, let alone other reasons why it might be a poor idea to chase those listeners.
Does the question mark indicate some possibility you'd be willing to consider "finding some way" to install a genuine democracy, that governs according to the will of the people and actually walks the talk?
If you think the so-called democracy we have now is acceptable, you've got pretty low standards in my opinion.
Half the country is far too much, but there is certainly a section of people who consider anything other than full-on no-qualifier cheering of Donald Trump to be "left wing biased lamestream media". I don't know exactly how many people exactly bought in to Trump's cult of personality, but it's a sizeable number (10 to 20% at least).
So how do you keep everyone happy in a case like that? Well, you can't.
