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NPR is The Worst. I’ve discussed this before, including recently. Here is another reason why. Kim Kelly is one of our most outstanding labor journalists. She’s also a long-time writer on metal. So of course NPR has to NPR.
I’ve been contributing to @nprmusic since 2011, but was just told they don’t want me to contribute anymore because my “activist stance” “conflicts” with their journalistic ethics
— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) July 26, 2019
Which is like, okay, fine, but it’s hard not to feel a ~little~ singled out here.
If any publications out there are okay with writers who actually stand for something, I’m always looking for new assignments.
— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) July 26, 2019
My “activist stance” can be boiled down to a very simple political worldview:
“Up, up, up with the workers!
Down, down, down with the Nazis!”Seems pretty reasonable to me.
— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) July 26, 2019
The idea that NPR Music can’t have anyone write for them that discusses politics in a different form is outrageous and just dumb. I don’t care what the political identification of the music writer is if they are good at writing about music. But no, NPR has to impose ideological boundaries on their music writing because it might make their corporate masters scared.