Current Event Blog: Post One

National Public Radio (NPR) is a publicly and privately funded not-for-profit news organization that is based in Washington, D.C., and it provides news articles and discussions that are both online and offline (through over 1,000 radio stations). NPR contributes to the national conversation by focusing on current and relevant news events that are in the public zeitgeist. It was founded in early 1970, and its first air date was in 1971. The audience of NPR currently exceeds over fourteen million. The article I have chosen is about the resignation of a high-level official in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Seth Frotman, the student loan ombudsman, who advocated against predatory lending practices, had been with the CFPB organization for the past three years, but he now believes that the CFPB is being undermined in their ability to provide consumers with proper protections. Along with his resignation, he sent a letter to the director that detailed his reasons for leaving, as well as his opinion on the direction of the CFPB. Notably, he mentioned that under the direction of the President the CFPB is now being used to benefit financial corporations of America. Among the other chief concerns of Frotman is whether the government is able to effectively protect the large sum of money that is involved with student borrowers. The source of this news publication, NPR, appears to convey a relatively objective perspective, by many standards of myself, by mostly mentioning the details and notable points of the subject at hand. In the article, they include the letter that Frotman has crafted in regard to his resignation. This allows the reader to at least partially evaluate the subtleties of the conversation about this issue. Further, it appears that the position NPR takes is that they do not necessarily have a position, other than to provide the reader with the facts about the organization and the resigning official. My opinion is that NPR did a relatively good job at reporting the story, considering that there is always subjectivity that leaks into news reports. However, they did highlight the fact that the current CFPB director has previously made negative remarks about it. This can be seen as being somewhat biased, because they did not include any counterstatements from him. In a more perfect world, having his point-of-view included could have improved the objectivity of the article.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/27/642199524/student-loan-watchdog-quits-blames-trump-administration

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