National Public Radio is dealing with reputational damage today after one of its fundraising executives was pranked into discussing discomfort with conservatives. (UPDATE: The CEO of NPR, Vivian Schiller, has left the company as a result of the incident.)
A chronic prankster pretended to represent an organization looking to donate and it took little effort to get the executive to open up about the organization's purported adversaries. The scheme plays into stereotypical concerns that NPR is anti-conservative.
NPR has disavowed the comments as unrepresentative, but already commentators are suggesting this hurts the organization.
A chronic prankster pretended to represent an organization looking to donate and it took little effort to get the executive to open up about the organization's purported adversaries. The scheme plays into stereotypical concerns that NPR is anti-conservative.
NPR has disavowed the comments as unrepresentative, but already commentators are suggesting this hurts the organization.
