[my_usernam3]

Not OP, but I noticed around the same time an increase in focus of looking at every issue through the lens of racial inequities, which got worse during covid and the BLM protests. That being said, they sent out a survey a year ago asking specifically about this, and I think theres been an effort to not have so much tunnel vision.

Source: me, take this all with a huge grain of salt

Edit: Upon reading which podcasts were cancelled, I feel my theory is somewhat validated.

[DangerousPie]

Totally agree with this.

I don't even disagree with most of what they are saying, but it feels like it just became more about campaigning for what they had already decided was the truth rather than actually producing good journalism. There was a time where I actually started listening to old podcasts from years ago because my podcast feed had just became an endless barrage of BLM and culture wars.

I think it has gotten a bit better again over the last year or so, but maybe I just got used to it.

[freedomben]

Oh man, this is so well said:

> it feels like it just became more about campaigning for what they had already decided was the truth rather than actually producing good journalism.

I'm really hoping at some point they'll come back because they were my favorite news source, but if they have views like many of the people I've discussed this with then they don't even realize there is a problem.