Has NPR lost America’s trust?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we all need to support the concept and implementation of a NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO.

It's true that I don't listen to them as much since they've traveled into DEI territory much of the time, with (ironically!), very little diversity of arguments.

But it's important we keep a free and nationally available radio news source! For the good of the public.

why is it important in 2024? Just a few years ago I would have agreed with you but now meh I can let it go. Plenty of other free media and also NPR doesn’t really represent the public but just a liberal viewpoint. And I am a liberal.

I am also now ok with ending support for public tv. I think it was valuable for a long time but now there is enough free media and ability to access it.

[Anonymous]

We have a good laugh at NPR whenever we decide to listen for a few minutes. We always have a bet as to how many seconds until they mention *race* in every.single.story.

I donated from 1984 until 2000, when it became a far-left joke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I like most of the programming on Wamu except Morning Edition and ATC. Wamu has lots of regular topics covered on shows like Fresh Air and 1A and On Point. the shows that focus on social justice/race like Code Switch are also good because they generally delve into the issues with nuance & interesting perspective. But yeah, I cannot stand the vapid fake reporting of Morning Edition and ATC.

This is an interesting perspective and I definitely get it. I think I'd almost say the same. I feel like Morning Edition has been better in the last several months. I also don't think they get enough/any credit for interviewing Republicans or conservatives, which they do. Just today they had an interview with an AZ Republican who opposes the 6 week abortion ban. Both parties were respectful of each other. And the host didn't challenge him when he outlined his position, which was basically pro-choice.

They constantly do.

Which is how those of us who do listen to NPR know that many posters on this thread are completely full of crap.

Exactly. NPR news segments are still more trustworthy than most.

If you prefer a biased slant to the news, yes.

If offering truth and varied opinions is “biased slant” then I guess I’m ok with that.

They rarely share varied opinions. They have a very liberal agenda. Great that you approve!

You clearly don’t listen.

We have 3 radios in our home and kept NPR on each one of them. Stopped listening about 7 yrs ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we all need to support the concept and implementation of a NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO.

It's true that I don't listen to them as much since they've traveled into DEI territory much of the time, with (ironically!), very little diversity of arguments.

But it's important we keep a free and nationally available radio news source! For the good of the public.

why is it important in 2024? Just a few years ago I would have agreed with you but now meh I can let it go. Plenty of other free media and also NPR doesn’t really represent the public but just a liberal viewpoint. And I am a liberal.

I am also now ok with ending support for public tv. I think it was valuable for a long time but now there is enough free media and ability to access it.

Large swaths of the country would have no decent local journalism if it weren’t for public media.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I like most of the programming on Wamu except Morning Edition and ATC. Wamu has lots of regular topics covered on shows like Fresh Air and 1A and On Point. the shows that focus on social justice/race like Code Switch are also good because they generally delve into the issues with nuance & interesting perspective. But yeah, I cannot stand the vapid fake reporting of Morning Edition and ATC.

This is an interesting perspective and I definitely get it. I think I'd almost say the same. I feel like Morning Edition has been better in the last several months. I also don't think they get enough/any credit for interviewing Republicans or conservatives, which they do. Just today they had an interview with an AZ Republican who opposes the 6 week abortion ban. Both parties were respectful of each other. And the host didn't challenge him when he outlined his position, which was basically pro-choice.

They constantly do.

Which is how those of us who do listen to NPR know that many posters on this thread are completely full of crap.

Exactly. NPR news segments are still more trustworthy than most.

If you prefer a biased slant to the news, yes.

If offering truth and varied opinions is “biased slant” then I guess I’m ok with that.

They rarely share varied opinions. They have a very liberal agenda. Great that you approve!

You clearly don’t listen.

We have 3 radios in our home and kept NPR on each one of them. Stopped listening about 7 yrs ago.

Yes, it's clear that you don't listen because they ROUTINELY share varied opinions.

[Anonymous]

A major news outlet, the long-established and trusted NYT, has weighed in with additional coverage.

According to the NYT, there has been “turmoil” at NPR, after an accusation was made that NPR could have a liberal bias in its reporting:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/business/media/npr-criticism-liberal-bias.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A major news outlet, the long-established and trusted NYT, has weighed in with additional coverage.

According to the NYT, there has been “turmoil” at NPR, after an accusation was made that NPR could have a liberal bias in its reporting:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/business/media/npr-criticism-liberal-bias.html

Well, facts have a liberal bias, so that makes sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I like most of the programming on Wamu except Morning Edition and ATC. Wamu has lots of regular topics covered on shows like Fresh Air and 1A and On Point. the shows that focus on social justice/race like Code Switch are also good because they generally delve into the issues with nuance & interesting perspective. But yeah, I cannot stand the vapid fake reporting of Morning Edition and ATC.

This is an interesting perspective and I definitely get it. I think I'd almost say the same. I feel like Morning Edition has been better in the last several months. I also don't think they get enough/any credit for interviewing Republicans or conservatives, which they do. Just today they had an interview with an AZ Republican who opposes the 6 week abortion ban. Both parties were respectful of each other. And the host didn't challenge him when he outlined his position, which was basically pro-choice.

They constantly do.

Which is how those of us who do listen to NPR know that many posters on this thread are completely full of crap.

Exactly. NPR news segments are still more trustworthy than most.

I don't think it's a matter of trustworthiness. Their reporting is factually accurate but I don't trust them to tell me all that is newsworthy, or to consider all angles of the topics it covers. Certainly, we can agree that NPR is not so far to the left as Fox is far to the right, and that, unlike Fox, NPR is making an effort at fair reporting. It just has trouble taking certain points of view seriously, so they dismiss certain angles and stories as too dumb to report. They could do with some humility in this regard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A major news outlet, the long-established and trusted NYT, has weighed in with additional coverage.

According to the NYT, there has been “turmoil” at NPR, after an accusation was made that NPR could have a liberal bias in its reporting:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/business/media/npr-criticism-liberal-bias.html

The NYT is certainly well-established, but it is not universally trusted.

[Anonymous]

Older Gen X here. I was a loyal listener in my 20s and 30s until I had kids and couldn't hear the radio over them, lol!

I stopped listening for many years, then began to dip back in when I was driving alone here in my 50s...

...and I couldn't stand it.

The coverage struck me as obviously biased to the ultra-progressive slant that left out a few inconvenient facts. Many of the shows came off as either cloying or where told from weird angles that came off as just trying to look super cool instead of newsworthy -- e.g., we're going to be talking to the vegan sculptor who does body art and lives in a van and grows kale in a self-constructed greenhouse and drives a rickshaw bike through town to save the environment when they're not an activist on another political issue type of fare.

I stopped listening altogether.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Older Gen X here. I was a loyal listener in my 20s and 30s until I had kids and couldn't hear the radio over them, lol!

I stopped listening for many years, then began to dip back in when I was driving alone here in my 50s...

...and I couldn't stand it.

The coverage struck me as obviously biased to the ultra-progressive slant that left out a few inconvenient facts. Many of the shows came off as either cloying or where told from weird angles that came off as just trying to look super cool instead of newsworthy -- e.g., we're going to be talking to the vegan sculptor who does body art and lives in a van and grows kale in a self-constructed greenhouse and drives a rickshaw bike through town to save the environment when they're not an activist on another political issue type of fare.[b]

I stopped listening altogether.

I find the bolded interesting. Did NPR change, or were they doing the same thing when you were in your twenties, only now you've aged out of it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A major news outlet, the long-established and trusted NYT, has weighed in with additional coverage.

According to the NYT, there has been “turmoil” at NPR, after an accusation was made that NPR could have a liberal bias in its reporting:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/business/media/npr-criticism-liberal-bias.html

Well, facts have a liberal bias, so that makes sense.

There is that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I like most of the programming on Wamu except Morning Edition and ATC. Wamu has lots of regular topics covered on shows like Fresh Air and 1A and On Point. the shows that focus on social justice/race like Code Switch are also good because they generally delve into the issues with nuance & interesting perspective. But yeah, I cannot stand the vapid fake reporting of Morning Edition and ATC.

This is an interesting perspective and I definitely get it. I think I'd almost say the same. I feel like Morning Edition has been better in the last several months. I also don't think they get enough/any credit for interviewing Republicans or conservatives, which they do. Just today they had an interview with an AZ Republican who opposes the 6 week abortion ban. Both parties were respectful of each other. And the host didn't challenge him when he outlined his position, which was basically pro-choice.

They constantly do.

Which is how those of us who do listen to NPR know that many posters on this thread are completely full of crap.

Exactly. NPR news segments are still more trustworthy than most.

If you prefer a biased slant to the news, yes.

If offering truth and varied opinions is “biased slant” then I guess I’m ok with that.

They rarely share varied opinions. They have a very liberal agenda. Great that you approve!

You clearly don’t listen.

We have 3 radios in our home and kept NPR on each one of them. Stopped listening about 7 yrs ago.

Yes, it's clear that you don't listen because they ROUTINELY share varied opinions.

No, they don't.

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Anonymous wrote:I like most of the programming on Wamu except Morning Edition and ATC. Wamu has lots of regular topics covered on shows like Fresh Air and 1A and On Point. the shows that focus on social justice/race like Code Switch are also good because they generally delve into the issues with nuance & interesting perspective. But yeah, I cannot stand the vapid fake reporting of Morning Edition and ATC.

This is an interesting perspective and I definitely get it. I think I'd almost say the same. I feel like Morning Edition has been better in the last several months. I also don't think they get enough/any credit for interviewing Republicans or conservatives, which they do. Just today they had an interview with an AZ Republican who opposes the 6 week abortion ban. Both parties were respectful of each other. And the host didn't challenge him when he outlined his position, which was basically pro-choice.

They constantly do.

Which is how those of us who do listen to NPR know that many posters on this thread are completely full of crap.

Exactly. NPR news segments are still more trustworthy than most.

If you prefer a biased slant to the news, yes.

If offering truth and varied opinions is “biased slant” then I guess I’m ok with that.

They rarely share varied opinions. They have a very liberal agenda. Great that you approve!

You clearly don’t listen.

We have 3 radios in our home and kept NPR on each one of them. Stopped listening about 7 yrs ago.

Yes, it's clear that you don't listen because they ROUTINELY share varied opinions.

No, they don't.

I listen multiple times a day, every day. They do. Annoyingly so.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry 50% of this country reads Trump's words on Truth Social and takes them as gospel.

Here are his recent ramblings:

Well Trump on Truth Social just said

"The great OJ Simpson used to play football with me. Not many people know that because I don't like to boast. He could never outrun me though. Have you ever seen blisters on my feet? No blisters. He used to say "Sir you are a great runner probably the best there has ever been. Also thank you sir for playing with a black man."

So spare me NPR outrage.

We have way bigger problems.