Has NPR lost America’s trust?

[Anonymous]

And a story about NPR in the NYT. The comments are particularly interesting. Lots of strong feelings about NPR, most of them not good.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/business/media/npr-uri-berliner-diversity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE0.6gHu.zNslOwxPSicF&smid=url-share

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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 how I began feeling about NPR upwards of ten years ago. It was what you describe and also never ending migrant sob stories and white people are racist nonsense to browbeat flooding the West with migrants. All. Day. Every. Single. Day.

I feel the same way, and have stopped listening to NPR completely.

[Anonymous]

This is what happens when you let your news organizations be run by Twitter trolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when you let your news organizations be run by Twitter trolls.

So much projection here!

[Anonymous]

I loved it before they got woke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And a story about NPR in the NYT. The comments are particularly interesting. Lots of strong feelings about NPR, most of them not good.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/business/media/npr-uri-berliner-diversity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE0.6gHu.zNslOwxPSicF&smid=url-share

Thanks for sharing. The comments reflect how I've been feeling about NPR

[Anonymous]

For the past two weeks, turmoil has engulfed NPR after a senior editor assailed what he described as an extreme liberal bias inside the organization that has bled into its news coverage. The editor, Uri Berliner, said NPR’s leaders had placed race and identity as “paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace” — at the expense of diverse political viewpoints, and at the risk of losing its audience.

No shit. Anyone with ears knows this. Every. Single. Piece. They publish includes one of the following words "black, gay, trans, oppressed, minority, race, or identity"

It isn't about news coverage. It's about an agenda.

[Anonymous]

Its a bummer. I used to love NPR.

Even This American Life is not what it once was. They just aired a series of stories about some dude in Gaza and never even asked him his opinion on Hamas' attack *that created the situation they are making the story about*. It was so so bizarre.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And a story about NPR in the NYT. The comments are particularly interesting. Lots of strong feelings about NPR, most of them not good.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/business/media/npr-uri-berliner-diversity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE0.6gHu.zNslOwxPSicF&smid=url-share

If you read the comments, many of them echo what’s been said here. And one of the reporters, Peters, keeps responding “I’ve heard that a lot as I was reporting this article.” I suppose content issues didn’t make it into the article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

For the past two weeks, turmoil has engulfed NPR after a senior editor assailed what he described as an extreme liberal bias inside the organization that has bled into its news coverage. The editor, Uri Berliner, said NPR’s leaders had placed race and identity as “paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace” — at the expense of diverse political viewpoints, and at the risk of losing its audience.

No shit. Anyone with ears knows this. Every. Single. Piece. They publish includes one of the following words "black, gay, trans, oppressed, minority, race, or identity"

It isn't about news coverage. It's about an agenda.

This is BS. I was listening this morning and not one piece about that. They were talking with people in China about the economy.

There was a period in 2021 or so after George Floyd when it felt this way. It was a huge social movement. When I felt myself getting annoyed, I took a breath and thought, for decades it's been all-white-all-the-time. It was a reckoning for us to have to listen to these stories and give them consideration. It is okay to be made uncomfortable sometimes. You can reflect. You might not change your mind. But it is good to listen to other perspectives.

Now a few years later, there are still some identity-based stories, but not nearly so many. Lots of coverage is just news of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

For the past two weeks, turmoil has engulfed NPR after a senior editor assailed what he described as an extreme liberal bias inside the organization that has bled into its news coverage. The editor, Uri Berliner, said NPR’s leaders had placed race and identity as “paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace” — at the expense of diverse political viewpoints, and at the risk of losing its audience.

No shit. Anyone with ears knows this. Every. Single. Piece. They publish includes one of the following words "black, gay, trans, oppressed, minority, race, or identity"

It isn't about news coverage. It's about an agenda.

This is BS. I was listening this morning and not one piece about that. They were talking with people in China about the economy.

There was a period in 2021 or so after George Floyd when it felt this way. It was a huge social movement. When I felt myself getting annoyed, I took a breath and thought, for decades it's been all-white-all-the-time. It was a reckoning for us to have to listen to these stories and give them consideration. It is okay to be made uncomfortable sometimes. You can reflect. You might not change your mind. But it is good to listen to other perspectives.

Now a few years later, there are still some identity-based stories, but not nearly so many. Lots of coverage is just news of the day.

You listened to one story this morning about China, and you think that justifies calling BS on NPR’s descent into propaganda over the last decade?

omg

[Anonymous]

DP. Among other things, I found this interesting in the article: NPR managers were disappointed last fall when a report showed that Blacks and Hispanics were 11% and 16%, respectively, of their audience. This needle hadn't moved despite the North Star efforts.

But in the 2020 Census, Blacks were 12.4% and 18.7% of the overall US population (https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/improved-race-ethnicity-measures-reveal-united-states-population-much-more-multiracial.html). That's certainly higher, but not much higher, than their share of NPR's audience.

So what is NPR's strategy here?

Do they think diversifying coverage is simply the right thing to do? I'd agree generally, but when does it become overshooting in terms of providing diversity in povs, or in political povs?

Is this effort aimed at moving the needle in nonwhite audience by about 4 percentage points? Or do they want to overshoot that?

Or, given the indisputable fact that the nonwhite population is growing rapidly, is NPR's strategy to get ahead of the curve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

For the past two weeks, turmoil has engulfed NPR after a senior editor assailed what he described as an extreme liberal bias inside the organization that has bled into its news coverage. The editor, Uri Berliner, said NPR’s leaders had placed race and identity as “paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace” — at the expense of diverse political viewpoints, and at the risk of losing its audience.

No shit. Anyone with ears knows this. Every. Single. Piece. They publish includes one of the following words "black, gay, trans, oppressed, minority, race, or identity"

It isn't about news coverage. It's about an agenda.

+ “migrant”. Not to mention their sob stories all sound clearly exaggerated if not 100% fake to push their agenda du jour. And everything is always slanted to smear white people in the West. NPR is complete garbage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

For the past two weeks, turmoil has engulfed NPR after a senior editor assailed what he described as an extreme liberal bias inside the organization that has bled into its news coverage. The editor, Uri Berliner, said NPR’s leaders had placed race and identity as “paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace” — at the expense of diverse political viewpoints, and at the risk of losing its audience.

No shit. Anyone with ears knows this. Every. Single. Piece. They publish includes one of the following words "black, gay, trans, oppressed, minority, race, or identity"

It isn't about news coverage. It's about an agenda.

This is BS. I was listening this morning and not one piece about that. They were talking with people in China about the economy.

There was a period in 2021 or so after George Floyd when it felt this way. It was a huge social movement. When I felt myself getting annoyed, I took a breath and thought, for decades it's been all-white-all-the-time. It was a reckoning for us to have to listen to these stories and give them consideration. It is okay to be made uncomfortable sometimes. You can reflect. You might not change your mind. But it is good to listen to other perspectives.

Now a few years later, there are still some identity-based stories, but not nearly so many. Lots of coverage is just news of the day.

You listened to one story this morning about China, and you think that justifies calling BS on NPR’s descent into propaganda over the last decade?

omg

No, moron, that was just one example. The criticism on here are overdone and overwrought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

For the past two weeks, turmoil has engulfed NPR after a senior editor assailed what he described as an extreme liberal bias inside the organization that has bled into its news coverage. The editor, Uri Berliner, said NPR’s leaders had placed race and identity as “paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace” — at the expense of diverse political viewpoints, and at the risk of losing its audience.

No shit. Anyone with ears knows this. Every. Single. Piece. They publish includes one of the following words "black, gay, trans, oppressed, minority, race, or identity"

It isn't about news coverage. It's about an agenda.

This is BS. I was listening this morning and not one piece about that. They were talking with people in China about the economy.

There was a period in 2021 or so after George Floyd when it felt this way. It was a huge social movement. When I felt myself getting annoyed, I took a breath and thought, for decades it's been all-white-all-the-time. It was a reckoning for us to have to listen to these stories and give them consideration. It is okay to be made uncomfortable sometimes. You can reflect. You might not change your mind. But it is good to listen to other perspectives.

Now a few years later, there are still some identity-based stories, but not nearly so many. Lots of coverage is just news of the day.

You listened to one story this morning about China, and you think that justifies calling BS on NPR’s descent into propaganda over the last decade?

omg

No, moron, that was just one example. The criticism on here are overdone and overwrought.

+1

The people complaining obviously don’t listen to it today.