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Steve Inskeep
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Still on the air @NPR. Author of Differ We Must, a NY Times bestseller. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670070/d…
- For about six years I've been asking Donald Trump for an interview. It never happened until the former president came on the line today. Tomorrow on @MorningEdition we'll hear what he said, up to the moment that he hung up on me. @NPR
- In November 2016, my daughter from China asked, "Am I going to be deported?" Last night she was asking questions about the Bidens' rescue dog.
- A fact about Rwanda's genocide has always stuck with me: the ruling party caused much of the killing simply by going on the radio and telling ethnic Hutus that ethnic Tutsis must be killed (along with Hutus who disapproved). Many people listened, and dismembered their neighbors.
- A journalist is a citizen. Who informs other citizens, as free citizens need. Some are killed doing it. I'm grateful to many who inform me.
- Thanks for asking. @NPR exists to tell the truth. Citizens support NPR to inform themselves and all citizens. We ask real questions, which many officials welcome, though some walk away. Through staff, you agreed to an NPR interview in 2016. You haven’t done it yet. Are you ready?A very good question!
- Wait. Now it’s okay that the government demands that a tech company delete something? If memory serves, just a short time ago this very action was described in the most heated terms (and not entirely without reason) as a totalitarian violation of the right to free speech.Apple drops ICE tracking apps from its store after Trump DOJ demand trib.al/5TpPpXE
- So far in 2020, we've had a near-war with Iran; a presidential impeachment trial; a string of presidential primaries; and a global pandemic that crashed the stock market and shut down the country and much of the world. Today is March 27.
- An astonishing number of Republicans and former Trump aides have calmly, factually testified under oath that the entire country was put at risk by the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination.
- American veteran, fired from FEMA, to WTOP: “I voted for Donald Trump. But this is not what I was expecting. We didn’t think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug.” Before you react, a few points. 1/
- NPR, which had no paid parental leave until recent years, when it added a few weeks and then a few more, is now voting on a union contract that includes “20 weeks of fully paid parental leave.”
- One year ago, our job at @NPR narrowed to a single thing: stay on the air for people, no matter what. Over the weekend it hit me that we've done that so far, whatever the personal cost. And I suddenly had to sit down. To colleagues who never give up: thank you.
- Actual former prisoner of the Taliban.
