12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Our starting point in our search for information is the reliable, authoritative information that we find in the Scriptures. We learn about who God is and who we are in Him, as well as practical principles that we can apply in order to live a fulfilling life that is built upon a foundation of God's love and truth. Our knowledge of the Scriptures help us to interpret and respond to the world around - we learn how to act and how to be the people of God that our Savior has called and empowered us to be.
In the final chapter of the book of Hosea, chapter 14, God is calling Israel back to Himself. The application for us is that God is calling us to embrace His truth and walk in His ways - we can read these words:
5 I will be like the dew to Israel; He shall grow like the lily, And lengthen his roots like Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread; His beauty shall be like an olive tree, And his fragrance like Lebanon.
7 Those who dwell under his shadow shall return; They shall be revived like grain, And grow like a vine. Their scent shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
8 "Ephraim shall say, 'What have I to do anymore with idols?' I have heard and observed him. I am like a green cypress tree; Your fruit is found in Me."
9 Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.
The ideology of a leader can help an organization rise to the top or plummet to the bottom. We've even seen churches and Christian organizations become infected with unbiblical ideas from the pulpit, which are intended by God to be a place that inspires and instructs believers on how to live Biblically.
Recently, the bias of a particular leader has received quite a bit of attention - and the stakes are certainly high, because this new CEO has been placed in charge at a media outlet that receives money from the taxpayers of America.
All things considered (pun intended), the hiring of Katherine Maher to become CEO and President of National Public Radio is problematic. Even one of its reporters, who admits the outlet leaned to the left, which may be thought to be an understatement, wrote a blistering essay before walking out the door, claiming that Maher had taken the outlet in an even more leftward direction.
Veteran NPR editor Uri Berliner detailed his employer’s "absence of viewpoint diversity" this week in a stunning piece about liberal groupthink invading the newsroom that rocked the media industry.
Berliner’s Free Press bombshell offered an inside look at NPR’s drift from only being "a bit to the left" in 2011 to its current form, where he said an "open-minded spirit no longer exists."
Before her hiring at NPR, Maher was in leadership at Wikipedia, and another Fox story stated:
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger took aim at his successor, Katherine Maher, whose past comments about free speech have resurfaced since taking over the now scandal-plagued NPR as its CEO and president.
City Journal's Christopher Rufo has been unearthing comments Maher had made during her tenure as executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The article noted:
Sanger, who left Wikipedia in 2002 and has been an outspoken critic of the platform's left-wing bias over the years, slammed comments Maher made suggesting Wikipedia coordinated with the government to crack down on so-called "misinformation."The article also stated: "Sanger told Rufo if NPR wants to commit to objectivity and free speech principles, 'they would let her go right away.'"
"When she says that she’s worked with government to shut down what they consider ‘misinformation,’ that, in itself, means that it’s no longer free and open," Sanger said.
On every topic, Maher adopts the fashionable language of left-wing academic theory and uses it as social currency, even when her efforts veer into self-parody. She never explains, never provides new interpretation—she just repeats the phrases, in search of affirmation and, when the time is right, a promotion.
Maher understands the game: America’s elite institutions reward loyalty to the narrative. Those who repeat the words move up; those who don’t move out.
29,400 Tweets, according to Rufo - that's quite a portfolio.
Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists involved in the publishing of the "Twitter Files," shared online at the Racket Files website:
Katherine Maher, the new head of NPR, was a minor character in the Twitter Files. She was CEO of Wikimedia when the company was (like Twitter) being invited to election tabletop exercises at the Pentagon and “Industry meetings” with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She also scored the rare personal triumvirate of being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a World Economic Forum young global leader, and a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Labs.
No matter what NPR does with Maher, it's not surprising - the taxpayer-funded outlet has the reputation of having lost its objectivity, anyway, so she's not the cause, she's the symptom of a media outlet, like NBC, CBS, ABC, and others, that is positioned as objective, but has lost its way.
For the Christian, we can be reminded of the importance of pursuing truth. We have to accumulate trusted sources through which we get our information. So we start with the Bible. That determines our worldview. Then, we consume media based on that perspective. We can be discerning, and be able to recognize when an agenda that runs contrary to Scripture is being sold to us.
Faith Radio is committed to approaching news and information from a Biblical perspective. There is nothing wrong with a media outlet presenting news from a particular point of view. The problem is when you have outlets that have been positioned to being objective news sources that weave a particular narrative into their reporting. And, with NPR, it receives taxpayer funding! The nuggets of a godless narrative are what you have to watch out for. We have to guard against being duped or deceived. And, we recognize that what some might call "misinformation" is actually something we need to pay attention to.
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