Has NPR lost America’s trust?

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused, how is the goal of focusing on more diverse perspectives suddenly resulting in more limited perspectives? I mean, come on, what did we have before for real?? Mostly one perspective pretending to be one “balanced” voice for all. It reminds me of a time when more diverse faces were starting to be seen on television. When 2 people of color were on one commercial, my so called liberal grandmother said “I think it’s nice, but aren’t they are going a little overboard?” Yeah right, okay. When people start to be uncomfortable with the change, to me they are then finally doing it right.

Great! Hope those on whom they're focusing will contribute money to the cause.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused, how is the goal of focusing on more diverse perspectives suddenly resulting in more limited perspectives? I mean, come on, what did we have before for real?? Mostly one perspective pretending to be one “balanced” voice for all. It reminds me of a time when more diverse faces were starting to be seen on television. When 2 people of color were on one commercial, my so called liberal grandmother said “I think it’s nice, but aren’t they are going a little overboard?” Yeah right, okay. When people start to be uncomfortable with the change, to me they are then finally doing it right.

It isn’t that they are focusing on different perspectives, it is that all they are focusing on is the fact that they are focusing on different perspectives. They are skipping the actual stories.

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I used to love NPR. I grew up listening to it and until recently listened to it all the time. But I listen a lot less now. It became so preachy. The stories are all about oppressed people and white privilege. I don't like trump, but there coverage was so biased. And the hosts are just annoying. All their "ums" and "ahs" and chit chatty delivery. I listen to a lot more Cspan and BBC. I also stopped donating

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Also, they are losing the next generation of listeners because my kids are hearing a lot less of NPR. And kids are pretty aware. Four years ago, my tween DC was listening to a story and noted how biased it was. I was both surprised and impressed and it was an eye opening moment for me.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people regardless of their political standing and preferred outlet feel the same the across the board

Nope.

I don’t find some of these posts credible. Some were made by people who clearly don’t listen.

1+. Agree. A gaggle of “I’m a card carrying Democrat but…” trolls.

DP. Way to demonstrate why NPR is losing audience but can’t/won’t figure out why or take any steps to turn things around.

I’m a firm believer in public radio. I’m a Dem who lives in TPK, whether you believe it or not.

Sure, there’s at least one MAGA on this thread. But you can’t write the rest of us off as fake Dem trolls. And is it really credible that all of us who are trying to give NPR another chance happen to tune in for yet another navel gazing, finger wagging piece, so yeah, that must have been the same piece for all of us because the rest of their programming is totally different?

What do you think you’re gaining with this head-in-the-sand attitude? Do you think NPR is grateful to you? Do you work for NPR?

All of this. Lifelong Dem, nonprofit worker, not a troll. NPR has been echo chamber fluff for years now. Maybe it’s changed back, for the better, in the past 2-3 years but I wouldn’t know because they veered so far off course that I stopped listening altogether. I miss it.

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How is this an Entertainment and Pop Culture discussion?

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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.

+1 Amen

+2. Can you imagine Car Talk being green-lit today?

Yes. Why would Car Talk not be greenlit?

Because it’s not grievance politics oriented, too male.

it doesn't center fat black trans teens lived experiences

THIS. BWAHAHAHAHA. Zero chance they would green light two straight males yukking it up and telling jokes now.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree, sadly. We were nonstop NPR listeners in our house and cars until after Trump won. It just got so obviously biased. (And we are super liberal!) Painful.

Same. I used to start my day with the Up First podcast. I replaced it with The Economist's morning podcast because I was tried of the predictable stories and wanted a fairer portrayal of the news that wasn't trapped in the DC bubble. I also stopped listening to the NPR Politics podcast because its coverage is borderline snarky in its leftist point of view. The only one with a reasonable take is Mara Liasson. And, like the PP, I'm quite liberal!

So I'm looking through the 3 topics on the recent Up First podcasts - sorry, I'm not seeing anything "unfair." https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first
The Economist is going to give you a more global focus so I guess that's what you're looking for?

You can't really get a sense of what the difference is from one podcast. It is what they cover over and over, and what they never cover. I just opened up The Economist to see what is on their front page. One of the first articles is about England's transgender care and takes aim at both the US progressive approach (as too lax and harmful to children and women's sports) and the US conservative approach (too harsh). You won't hear that story on NPR. It is not just about having a more global approach. It is about not covering certain stories and not fairly examining both points of view. A second example is whenever they talk about Trump and NATO, someone has to make the joke under the guise of fact-checking that Trump clearly doesn't understand NATO because he thinks we're supposed to be spending on other countries' defense. We all get that Trump comes off as an idiot, and that NATO doesn't literally require us to actually pay other countries' armies but they're so busy mocking Trump that they can never get around to discussing the underlying criticism of NATO members that other countries haven't -- until Putin invaded Ukraine -- been spending what NATO requires for their own defense. To be clear, I do still listen to NPR sometimes but I don't listen to it first because I want to get a fair picture of the news, and that is best obtained elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree, sadly. We were nonstop NPR listeners in our house and cars until after Trump won. It just got so obviously biased. (And we are super liberal!) Painful.

Same. I used to start my day with the Up First podcast. I replaced it with The Economist's morning podcast because I was tried of the predictable stories and wanted a fairer portrayal of the news that wasn't trapped in the DC bubble. I also stopped listening to the NPR Politics podcast because its coverage is borderline snarky in its leftist point of view. The only one with a reasonable take is Mara Liasson. And, like the PP, I'm quite liberal!

So I'm looking through the 3 topics on the recent Up First podcasts - sorry, I'm not seeing anything "unfair." https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first
The Economist is going to give you a more global focus so I guess that's what you're looking for?

You can't really get a sense of what the difference is from one podcast. It is what they cover over and over, and what they never cover. I just opened up The Economist to see what is on their front page. One of the first articles is about England's transgender care and takes aim at both the US progressive approach (as too lax and harmful to children and women's sports) and the US conservative approach (too harsh). You won't hear that story on NPR. It is not just about having a more global approach. It is about not covering certain stories and not fairly examining both points of view. A second example is whenever they talk about Trump and NATO, someone has to make the joke under the guise of fact-checking that Trump clearly doesn't understand NATO because he thinks we're supposed to be spending on other countries' defense. We all get that Trump comes off as an idiot, and that NATO doesn't literally require us to actually pay other countries' armies but they're so busy mocking Trump that they can never get around to discussing the underlying criticism of NATO members that other countries haven't -- until Putin invaded Ukraine -- been spending what NATO requires for their own defense. To be clear, I do still listen to NPR sometimes but I don't listen to it first because I want to get a fair picture of the news, and that is best obtained elsewhere.

So this is also my problem with the current state of public debate. I would LOVE to understand the smart person’s version of the conservative policy arguments, not a caricatured version that’s basically like “uh duh I hate immigrants” or whatever. The better I understand what exactly is the debate about, the better I can formulate my own (lefty!) arguments.

NPR has been too much in the camp of “progressives good and noble, conservatives bad and stupid” for too long now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to love NPR. I grew up listening to it and until recently listened to it all the time. But I listen a lot less now. It became so preachy. The stories are all about oppressed people and white privilege. I don't like trump, but there coverage was so biased. And the hosts are just annoying. All their "ums" and "ahs" and chit chatty delivery. I listen to a lot more Cspan and BBC. I also stopped donating

+1 Ditto

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One approach that's worked well for me is to use the NPR app, then choose Morning Edition or All Things Considered. Then you can just skip the stories you've heard before, are too triggering, or are more woke BS.

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Anyone listen to DemocracyNow? They followed a similar path. I used to be a big fan but the Trump election broke them. In 2016 they did many stories on the Clinton Foundation corruption. But in 2020 they did zero stories critical of Biden. Of course they've gone around the bend with anti-Israel stories every day now.

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If you think NPR is boring, stale, and predictable try watching Fox News of MSNBC! I swear I think you have to be slightly unhinged to ply your brain with that crap.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think NPR is boring, stale, and predictable try watching Fox News of MSNBC! I swear I think you have to be slightly unhinged to ply your brain with that crap.

Ma'am this is a Wendy's.

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I hate that being rational is being politicized and called "progressive". The "other side"/pov is looney tunes and there is zero policy debate when one side literally has no platform.