Has NPR lost America’s trust?

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing proves your rationality better than mentioning Hunter Biden's laptop. Unless it's not understanding lab leaks.

I can't say much without getting in a sh*ton of trouble, but it was 100% a lab leak. Everyone in the global health community knows this. Like, there's near unanimous agreement from almost all infectious disease SMEs, which is rare in that field.

It was a lab leak. The question is intentional or unintentional. Most think the latter.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing proves your rationality better than mentioning Hunter Biden's laptop. Unless it's not understanding lab leaks.

I can't say much without getting in a sh*ton of trouble, but it was 100% a lab leak. Everyone in the global health community knows this. Like, there's near unanimous agreement from almost all infectious disease SMEs, which is rare in that field.

It was a lab leak. The question is intentional or unintentional. Most think the latter.

Even an armchair observer knew it most likely had to be a lab leak based on the real and observable data from the first month or so of COVID. I didn't rule out the possibility it could have been naturally occurring but watching what was happening in China starting that December 2020, it was the behavior of a government that knew *exactly* what had happened from the get go, and that was why they were able to shut down Wuhan so quickly. And that could only be the case if it was a lab leak. Given how rapidly COVID spread in the US in the first few weeks, how would COVID not spread throughout China just as quickly before the government figured there was something going on? Answer: they knew it was a lab leak. And the investigation data into events at WIV in the fall 2020 does back this up.

I am unhappy how politicized COVID became and it was equally apparent to me so many people were firmly retreating into positions solely on partisan grounds, ranting that it was racism or whatever for suggesting COVID wasn't a lab leak. It did no one any favors and only created enormous distrust among people while discrediting the people who should have known better. We're still suffering from it today.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing proves your rationality better than mentioning Hunter Biden's laptop. Unless it's not understanding lab leaks.

The media blackout of the laptop was inexcusable and deeply partisan.

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Anonymous wrote:Uri Berliner's article made it okay for people to say out loud what they have been thinking... NPR has gone down hill. Full stop. They are losing listeners and had to cut staff due to budget shortfalls. The organization is not thriving.

Naysayers who continue to defend the organization say all is great. But facts don't support this and Uri Berliner's concerns clearly resonate with a lot of listeners.

Every last one of them is ultra-left wing and cannot stand people who are different from them. They are not tolerant.

I can’t speak for anyone else but I think anyone who is a Republican in 2024 is a total POS. There isn’t a single valid reason unless you’re anti-democracy, anti-diversity, anti-LGBTQ, anti-woman, anti-environment, or anti-fact.

After the last several years, I have no patience for their bullcrap.

DP. Yeah, this is what the PP was talking about. This is the opposite of tolerance.

DP. I will admit to an intolerance of outright lies and insane conspiracy theories. I do not want those repeated ad nauseum on any news source I spend my time on unless there is clear debunking that follows immediately.

If the GOP and the right want to have their views covered, they need to start saying something in the realm of reality. I am happy to listen to *conservative* viewpoints on finance etc. Bring it on. But right now, the GOP is the party of far-right nutjobs. Their lies should not be parroted unchecked.

And, just so you know, I feel the same way about the far-left nutjobs. Fact check them.

Which doesn’t seem to be what NPR is willing to do any more. That’s why we are in this mess.

I don't think NPR is perfect. I don't think any news organization is perfect. But I think this hit job is also off the mark and full of inaccuracies. NPR is not as far-left as people are claiming.

We don’t need a publicly funded station period.

[Anonymous]

I am a disillusioned NPR listener. I hate to admit it, but I think NPR should lose public funding. Would reconsider if the organization was open to correcting the problems but new CEO has made clear she thinks that that the messenger, not the message, is the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing proves your rationality better than mentioning Hunter Biden's laptop. Unless it's not understanding lab leaks.

I can't say much without getting in a sh*ton of trouble, but it was 100% a lab leak. Everyone in the global health community knows this. Like, there's near unanimous agreement from almost all infectious disease SMEs, which is rare in that field.

It was a lab leak. The question is intentional or unintentional. Most think the latter.

The bolded is flatly untrue.

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Equity and Equity, NPR. Half your staff need to be Republicans I'm waiting.

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Conservatives have been trying to kill NPR for the last 40 years. This is yet another round of pearl-clutching by the crowd that thinks Fox is an actual news station. We all know of 700 million reasons why that isn't true.

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Anonymous wrote:Equity and Equity, NPR. Half your staff need to be Republicans I'm waiting.

They don't practice what they preach.

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NPR, to the man, is a deeply partisan organization deeply, deeply committed to the Left Establishment narrative.

They 100% support the Left’s policy priorities and aims and will move heaven and Earth to protect their ideological friends.

How many American tax payers, though, are deeply committed ideological lefties?

20%?

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Appointment even a boring, run of the mill, Republican like Jen Bush or Mitt Romney to become NPRs CEO would elicit howls of outrage.

That’s how bad it is.

It’ll never get fixed, of course, and NPR will increasingly become a non-factor in broader civic life in America.

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Anonymous wrote:Conservatives have been trying to kill NPR for the last 40 years. This is yet another round of pearl-clutching by the crowd that thinks Fox is an actual news station. We all know of 700 million reasons why that isn't true.

Explain to us why you feel NPR - every bit as biased as Fox News, but at the opposite end of the spectrum - deserves to be funded with taxpayer dollars. How would you feel if Fox News was taxpayer funded? We'll wait.

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Anonymous wrote:Conservatives have been trying to kill NPR for the last 40 years. This is yet another round of pearl-clutching by the crowd that thinks Fox is an actual news station. We all know of 700 million reasons why that isn't true.

No. I hate Fox News, it is a joke for the low-IQ viewer. NPR used to be wonderful and I was an enthusiastic listener. Now it's terrible woke BS. I would like the news, some analysis, and some entertaining yet smart human interest and self-improvement stories mixed in. Instead i tune in and hear something like, "abc ethnic group has been historically underrepresented in xyz setting. Let's dig into why". Relentless.

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Anonymous wrote:Uri Berliner's article made it okay for people to say out loud what they have been thinking... NPR has gone down hill. Full stop. They are losing listeners and had to cut staff due to budget shortfalls. The organization is not thriving.

Naysayers who continue to defend the organization say all is great. But facts don't support this and Uri Berliner's concerns clearly resonate with a lot of listeners.

Every last one of them is ultra-left wing and cannot stand people who are different from them. They are not tolerant.

I can’t speak for anyone else but I think anyone who is a Republican in 2024 is a total POS. There isn’t a single valid reason unless you’re anti-democracy, anti-diversity, anti-LGBTQ, anti-woman, anti-environment, or anti-fact.

After the last several years, I have no patience for their bullcrap.

I mean, I agree with you about Republicans 100%, and at the same time NPR is unlistenable now. Really unpleasant. I don't donate or listen anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Conservatives have been trying to kill NPR for the last 40 years. This is yet another round of pearl-clutching by the crowd that thinks Fox is an actual news station. We all know of 700 million reasons why that isn't true.

No. I hate Fox News, it is a joke for the low-IQ viewer. NPR used to be wonderful and I was an enthusiastic listener. Now it's terrible woke BS. I would like the news, some analysis, and some entertaining yet smart human interest and self-improvement stories mixed in. Instead i tune in and hear something like, "abc ethnic group has been historically underrepresented in xyz setting. Let's dig into why". Relentless.

This is a very solid answer.