The disconnect between academia and journalism on the one hand, and smart and intelligent people on the other is breathtaking. One side sold generations of the other down river because of greed and oikophobia. And they do it with fearmongering such as this. To quote chat bot:
> I couldn’t find any stories on NPR in 2025 (solely this year, not earlier) that focus explicitly on positive trends in academia or higher education.
Imagine my surprise. In years to come, we should recognize they will have such stories, they will implicitly include the 2025 time frame, and those destroyed by the Kool-Aid will be none the wiser to anything positive. Compare National Propaganda Radio to Colorado Public Radio or The Colorado Sun and it becomes obvious: NPR and its ilk are the problem destroying our future youth, not the lack of international students.
> I couldn’t find any stories on NPR in 2025 (solely this year, not earlier) that focus explicitly on positive trends in academia or higher education.
Imagine my surprise. In years to come, we should recognize they will have such stories, they will implicitly include the 2025 time frame, and those destroyed by the Kool-Aid will be none the wiser to anything positive. Compare National Propaganda Radio to Colorado Public Radio or The Colorado Sun and it becomes obvious: NPR and its ilk are the problem destroying our future youth, not the lack of international students.