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NPR CEO Katherine Maher: We’re Not on the Left, It’s Just that ‘People Don’t Agree on What the Middle Is’

‘It’s not harder in the sense of our commitment to ensuring we’re hearing from different voices’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

FOSTER: "America's got lots of networks that aren't so common here in Europe, which are opinion based networks, and that's a different culture. But you have to serve everyone. So you're trying to stay in the middle."
MAHER: "Yes, yes."
FOSTER: "And that's become harder."
MAHER: "It -- I think it's harder insofar as people don't agree on what the middle is now. It's not harder in the sense of our commitment to ensuring we're hearing from different voices. I also tend to think there's this perspective that, you know, people can be reduced to sort of political platforms, but in reality, when you drill down on people's preferences, they're far more complex than that. When you go into local communities and you talk to them about what they want in terms of economic revitalization, they will recognize real tensions, perhaps around manufacturing and ensuring that their environment is something healthy for their children.”

 

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