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.

Yup. I have always believed this.

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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.

Please review NPR’s budget and review the federal budget to tell me what funding is going there. 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.

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.

Please review NPR’s budget and review the federal budget to tell me what funding is going there. We’ll wait.

They have a great "shell game" going. Needs to end.

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I think Maher has performed extremely badly in her first few weeks in NPR, and her past tweets indicate a troubling level of vacuousness, but the idea of her being a spy is ludicrous.

In any event, that would be some amazing multidimensional chess for a spy agency to get Berliner to write an article and then install a CEO so ham-handed that the article’s point is confirmed rather than denied.

Totally ludicrous. Operation Mockingbird is mere conspiracy. Also totally disregard how powerful politicians' bimbo daughters score multi-million media deals.

[Anonymous]

Just saw a flier for NPR/ local publuc broadcasting hanging on our front door. So sorry I missed the person. Flier went straight to our recycling bin.

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Anonymous wrote:Npr went from being a thoughtful, intelligent platform that was great for learning about nuanced topics to a whiny woke mouthpiece for obscure grievance politics. I'm totally sick of it and have moved on to podcasts.

Well said. Tired of funding their garbage.

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WSJ article about new CEO. She seems very focused on helping NPR grow its audience but not open to understanding why NPR is losing its audience.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/npr-chief-defends-coverage-accuses-critics-of-bad-faith-distortion-of-her-views-cc5869ac?st=iv8jjc77w5uo9ut&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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Anonymous wrote:WSJ article about new CEO. She seems very focused on helping NPR grow its audience but not open to understanding why NPR is losing its audience.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/npr-chief-defends-coverage-accuses-critics-of-bad-faith-distortion-of-her-views-cc5869ac?st=iv8jjc77w5uo9ut&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Maher is clearly a very intelligent and extremely liberal CEO who knows how to word rebuttal statements that she hopes will dispel concerns related to the number of shrinking listeners. I don't think she understands or even cares that national, public broadcasts should reflect more than her own viewpoints.

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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.

Please review NPR’s budget and review the federal budget to tell me what funding is going there. We’ll wait.

They have a great "shell game" going. Needs to end.

By which you mean that CPB funds stations, and stations buy products from NPR (and other places, produce their own, pay their staff and maintain their towers and websites).

That is like saying since my partner is a government employee, the government is funding grocery stores and my local restaurants.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Please review NPR’s budget and review the federal budget to tell me what funding is going there. We’ll wait.

They have a great "shell game" going. Needs to end.

By which you mean that CPB funds stations, and stations buy products from NPR (and other places, produce their own, pay their staff and maintain their towers and websites).

That is like saying since my partner is a government employee, the government is funding grocery stores and my local restaurants.

Describe their sources of income as you wish. Clearly, many people are not tuning in or making contributions. .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I think Maher has performed extremely badly in her first few weeks in NPR, and her past tweets indicate a troubling level of vacuousness, but the idea of her being a spy is ludicrous.

In any event, that would be some amazing multidimensional chess for a spy agency to get Berliner to write an article and then install a CEO so ham-handed that the article’s point is confirmed rather than denied.

Yep. Nothing to see here, totally normal background…

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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.

Please review NPR’s budget and review the federal budget to tell me what funding is going there. We’ll wait.

They have a great "shell game" going. Needs to end.

By which you mean that CPB funds stations, and stations buy products from NPR (and other places, produce their own, pay their staff and maintain their towers and websites).

That is like saying since my partner is a government employee, the government is funding grocery stores and my local restaurants.

If they aren’t getting a lot of direct taxpayer funding, then it shouldn’t be a problem for it to be cut altogether.

[Anonymous]

Hmm.

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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.

Please review NPR’s budget and review the federal budget to tell me what funding is going there. We’ll wait.

They have a great "shell game" going. Needs to end.

By which you mean that CPB funds stations, and stations buy products from NPR (and other places, produce their own, pay their staff and maintain their towers and websites).

That is like saying since my partner is a government employee, the government is funding grocery stores and my local restaurants.

If they aren’t getting a lot of direct taxpayer funding, then it shouldn’t be a problem for it to be cut altogether.

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