Has NPR lost America’s trust?

[Anonymous]

Why is Esther Ciammachili (sp?) always absent? Time to hire someone else.

[Anonymous]

Did it ever have it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I agree. I stopped listening to NPR about four years ago. I naturally lean towards NPR's spectrum but it got too much for me.

+ 100

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Anonymous wrote:We go through this every.single.time. this dumb thread gets recycled. I’ll take the time to list out the wide list of stores/perspectives shared over any random day. Then the complainers slink away for several months, only to reappear later with the same fake complaints.

Maybe it keeps reappearing because it's a real thing, and thus worth discussing. Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Not Slinking Away

It’s not. If you actually listened to it you’d hear a variety of stories/perspectives. The right just wants to discredit non-crazy news sources leading up to the election.

I still listen to it. I just save it for last if I still have time after listening to more centrist publications. So, I do know what they cover, how they cover it, and what they don't cover that other news outlets are covering. It is not true that these criticisms are only coming from the far right, and it is not only NPR that has been pulled to the left. The Economist actually recently did a data analysis of news coverage and rated various organizations (NPR wasn't included) on their lean. Both the left and the right have recently deepened their lean but the trajectory was stronger on the left. That is, the center left moved further left. This article describes their methodology and conclusions (gift link): https://econ.st/43XLX3v

[Anonymous]

I rarely listen anymore. I find that much of their reporting is narrative driven and the people they choose to interview as well. The last straw for me was when they had the most racist person I have ever heard speak, some horrid Professor from Rutgers, about the presidential election when Biden was thankfully elected over Trump. I do sometimes listen to Marketplace and turn it on every so often to see if anything interesting is on. For the most part I am completely disinterested in what they are reporting or talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:We go through this every.single.time. this dumb thread gets recycled. I’ll take the time to list out the wide list of stores/perspectives shared over any random day. Then the complainers slink away for several months, only to reappear later with the same fake complaints.

Maybe it keeps reappearing because it's a real thing, and thus worth discussing. Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Not Slinking Away

It’s not. If you actually listened to it you’d hear a variety of stories/perspectives. The right just wants to discredit non-crazy news sources leading up to the election.

I completely disagree. I am far from right wing and agree 100% that NPR is very left of center and narrative driven. It is rare that I hear objective reporting, what journalism should be. A news network should not be trying to shape public opinion. That is exactly what NPR tries to do.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It is important in 2024 to have something that is not about profit and not owned by some right-wing billionaire. There are no longer good independent news sources available in many local markets.

You may not like all of the stories on NPR, but their news segments are fine. People in localities where the local news is all right-wing nonsense and that no longer have a local paper need access to some news that's not BS.

You are very dismissive of conservative thinking with your "right wing nonsense" comment. It's not all nonsense, and attitudes like yours are one reason NPR is losing listeners and donations.

Notice I did not say "conservative". I'm not talking about the WSJ here. I said right-wing nonsense very specifically and purposefully, because that is precisely what Fox and Sinclair-owned channels present. They parrot right-wing extremist conspiracy theories as fact. They repeat lies as fact. They deceive the public at the behest of the Murdoch family and those like them. I don't consider these to be real, conservative news sources. They are BS propaganda machines.

And NPR does actually present conservative guests in conjunction with more liberal guests, having people of different viewpoints have a conversation. Like having different senators. I try to listen and keep an open mind. I have heard this in many segments over the years.

I think it is you that is being dismissive.

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Anonymous wrote:We go through this every.single.time. this dumb thread gets recycled. I’ll take the time to list out the wide list of stores/perspectives shared over any random day. Then the complainers slink away for several months, only to reappear later with the same fake complaints.

Maybe it keeps reappearing because it's a real thing, and thus worth discussing. Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Not Slinking Away

It’s not. If you actually listened to it you’d hear a variety of stories/perspectives. The right just wants to discredit non-crazy news sources leading up to the election.

I completely disagree. I am far from right wing and agree 100% that NPR is very left of center and narrative driven. It is rare that I hear objective reporting, what journalism should be. A news network should not be trying to shape public opinion. That is exactly what NPR tries to do.

+1 this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It is important in 2024 to have something that is not about profit and not owned by some right-wing billionaire. There are no longer good independent news sources available in many local markets.

You may not like all of the stories on NPR, but their news segments are fine. People in localities where the local news is all right-wing nonsense and that no longer have a local paper need access to some news that's not BS.

You are very dismissive of conservative thinking with your "right wing nonsense" comment. It's not all nonsense, and attitudes like yours are one reason NPR is losing listeners and donations.

Notice I did not say "conservative". I'm not talking about the WSJ here. I said right-wing nonsense very specifically and purposefully, because that is precisely what Fox and Sinclair-owned channels present. They parrot right-wing extremist conspiracy theories as fact. They repeat lies as fact. They deceive the public at the behest of the Murdoch family and those like them. I don't consider these to be real, conservative news sources. They are BS propaganda machines.

And NPR does actually present conservative guests in conjunction with more liberal guests, having people of different viewpoints have a conversation. Like having different senators. I try to listen and keep an open mind. I have heard this in many segments over the years.

I think it is you that is being dismissive.

PP here. Yes, I'm being dismissive of NPR. I've heard enough to know they are trying to shape the public's views to their worldview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It is important in 2024 to have something that is not about profit and not owned by some right-wing billionaire. There are no longer good independent news sources available in many local markets.

You may not like all of the stories on NPR, but their news segments are fine. People in localities where the local news is all right-wing nonsense and that no longer have a local paper need access to some news that's not BS.

You are very dismissive of conservative thinking with your "right wing nonsense" comment. It's not all nonsense, and attitudes like yours are one reason NPR is losing listeners and donations.

Notice I did not say "conservative". I'm not talking about the WSJ here. I said right-wing nonsense very specifically and purposefully, because that is precisely what Fox and Sinclair-owned channels present. They parrot right-wing extremist conspiracy theories as fact. They repeat lies as fact. They deceive the public at the behest of the Murdoch family and those like them. I don't consider these to be real, conservative news sources. They are BS propaganda machines.

And NPR does actually present conservative guests in conjunction with more liberal guests, having people of different viewpoints have a conversation. Like having different senators. I try to listen and keep an open mind. I have heard this in many segments over the years.

I think it is you that is being dismissive.

+1

This is obvious to anyone who actually listens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We go through this every.single.time. this dumb thread gets recycled. I’ll take the time to list out the wide list of stores/perspectives shared over any random day. Then the complainers slink away for several months, only to reappear later with the same fake complaints.

Maybe it keeps reappearing because it's a real thing, and thus worth discussing. Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Not Slinking Away

It’s not. If you actually listened to it you’d hear a variety of stories/perspectives. The right just wants to discredit non-crazy news sources leading up to the election.

I completely disagree. I am far from right wing and agree 100% that NPR is very left of center and narrative driven. It is rare that I hear objective reporting, what journalism should be. A news network should not be trying to shape public opinion. That is exactly what NPR tries to do.

100% this. We stopped donating and listening this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We go through this every.single.time. this dumb thread gets recycled. I’ll take the time to list out the wide list of stores/perspectives shared over any random day. Then the complainers slink away for several months, only to reappear later with the same fake complaints.

Maybe it keeps reappearing because it's a real thing, and thus worth discussing. Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Not Slinking Away

It’s not. If you actually listened to it you’d hear a variety of stories/perspectives. The right just wants to discredit non-crazy news sources leading up to the election.

I completely disagree. I am far from right wing and agree 100% that NPR is very left of center and narrative driven. It is rare that I hear objective reporting, what journalism should be. A news network should not be trying to shape public opinion. That is exactly what NPR tries to do.

100% this. We stopped donating and listening this year.

Listening to facts is so very tiring isn't it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We go through this every.single.time. this dumb thread gets recycled. I’ll take the time to list out the wide list of stores/perspectives shared over any random day. Then the complainers slink away for several months, only to reappear later with the same fake complaints.

Maybe it keeps reappearing because it's a real thing, and thus worth discussing. Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Not Slinking Away

It’s not. If you actually listened to it you’d hear a variety of stories/perspectives. The right just wants to discredit non-crazy news sources leading up to the election.

I completely disagree. I am far from right wing and agree 100% that NPR is very left of center and narrative driven. It is rare that I hear objective reporting, what journalism should be. A news network should not be trying to shape public opinion. That is exactly what NPR tries to do.

100% this. We stopped donating and listening this year.

Listening to facts is so very tiring isn't it.

The problem is NPR isn't about facts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We go through this every.single.time. this dumb thread gets recycled. I’ll take the time to list out the wide list of stores/perspectives shared over any random day. Then the complainers slink away for several months, only to reappear later with the same fake complaints.

Maybe it keeps reappearing because it's a real thing, and thus worth discussing. Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Not Slinking Away

It’s not. If you actually listened to it you’d hear a variety of stories/perspectives. The right just wants to discredit non-crazy news sources leading up to the election.

I completely disagree. I am far from right wing and agree 100% that NPR is very left of center and narrative driven. It is rare that I hear objective reporting, what journalism should be. A news network should not be trying to shape public opinion. That is exactly what NPR tries to do.

100% this. We stopped donating and listening this year.

Listening to facts is so very tiring isn't it.

The NPR defenders making comments like this, wholesale dismissing what people are saying about their own experiences listening to NPR, calling it right-wing nonsense and starting to suggest conspiracy theories about undermining news sources before the election—this is so incredibly frustrating about the left in 2024. Isn’t it possible that people very like you in many ways are dissatisfied with NPR and the direction it has taken? Why is that so crazy? NPR itself I am sure would say that its focus HAS changed—for example, they are intentionally doing a lot more post-2020-racial-reckoning about identity and race. For some people, this has resulted in what feels like ideology rather than fact-based news reporting. That’s not wildly crazy to imagine; it’s clear to anyone paying attention that both left and right have become increasingly intolerant of dissent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We go through this every.single.time. this dumb thread gets recycled. I’ll take the time to list out the wide list of stores/perspectives shared over any random day. Then the complainers slink away for several months, only to reappear later with the same fake complaints.

Maybe it keeps reappearing because it's a real thing, and thus worth discussing. Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Not Slinking Away

It’s not. If you actually listened to it you’d hear a variety of stories/perspectives. The right just wants to discredit non-crazy news sources leading up to the election.

NP.
I listened to NPR for years. Eventually I stopped precisely because of what this journalist has written about.

+1 Same for my husband and me

So what news sources do you use now?

The Economist
WSJ
The free press

WaPo occasionally