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By Tim Graham ~

NPR has a Strategic Plan to grow beyond their stereotypical urbane white audience. They announced: “We must expand NPR’s audience to reflect what America will look and sound like in 2021 and beyond, attracting a more diverse audience to our journalism and cultural content, with an emphasis on Black and Hispanic audiences on all platforms.”

This would explain in part why NPR would offer black leftists an open-ended publicity platform. Take, for example, the seven-minute interview on Monday’s Morning Edition with former congressman Keith Ellison, selling a new book on his prosecution of police officers involved in the death of George Floyd in 2020. The book’s title is Break The Wheel: Ending The Cycle Of Police Violence. It’s “an unforgettable reading experience,” says Obama Attorney General Eric Holder in a book blurb.

Morning host Leila Fadel asked every question from the left, down to the legislative…