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Ex-NPR CEO Comes to Shocking Conclusion on Media after Spending Time with Evangelicals and Mainstream Americans Outside the 'Liberal Bubble'

Billy Hallowell : Oct 24, 2017  Faithwire.com

"It's not that media is suppressing stories intentionally. It's that these stories don't reflect their interests and beliefs." -Ken Stern, from NY Post op/ed.

[Faithwire.com] Ken Stern, former CEO of NPR, decided to bust out of the liberal media bubble over the past year to encounter an America he hadn't quite seen before, concluding that "most reporters and editors are liberal" and that the media have "failed us." (Photo: the Media/AP Photo/edited/John Raoux/via Breitbart.com)

Stern, who recorded his surprising experiences in a recent NY Post op-ed as well as a new book titled, "Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right," explained how he came to experience evangelicals, Republicans and other mainstream Americans in a light the media doesn't typically portray.

"Spurred by a fear that red and blue America were drifting irrevocably apart, I decided to venture out from my overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood and engage Republicans where they live, work and pray," Stern wrote in a recent op-ed. "For an entire year, I embedded myself with the other side, standing in pit row at a NASCAR race, hanging out at Tea Party meetings and sitting in on Steve Bannon's radio show."

As he went to evangelical churches and spent time in a culture that was unfamiliar to what he was used to, the media expert said that he came to realize...

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