Has NPR lost America’s trust?

[Anonymous]

This thread started because someone from inside NPR for 25 years said things have gotten bad. He commented to Bari Weiss that there were ZERO Republicans in the newsroom and the reaction was, "Huh," and not, "Holy crap, how did that happen--we need to fix that." This is not OK. This is not neutral. I used to be an avid listener, but I can't listen anymore. Every story is presented as an identity-based narrative with some sob story. Ugh. It's awful.

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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.

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.

And you shut down anyone who doesn't feel like you do. I'm not that left wing and I listen regularly and I see mostly unbiased news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread started because someone from inside NPR for 25 years said things have gotten bad. He commented to Bari Weiss that there were ZERO Republicans in the newsroom and the reaction was, "Huh," and not, "Holy crap, how did that happen--we need to fix that." This is not OK. This is not neutral. I used to be an avid listener, but I can't listen anymore. Every story is presented as an identity-based narrative with some sob story. Ugh. It's awful.

Ahhh…this all makes sense now.

The bias/propaganda queen herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the quarterly bash NPR thread with the same tired and false talking points! I'm still learning from and enjoying it as much as ever.

Of course you are because you are a huge lib who loves living in a tax payer funded echo chamber who hates any diversity of thought.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the quarterly bash NPR thread with the same tired and false talking points! I'm still learning from and enjoying it as much as ever.

Of course you are because you are a huge lib who loves living in a tax payer funded echo chamber who hates any diversity of thought.

Tell me you don’t listen by telling me you don’t listen.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the quarterly bash NPR thread with the same tired and false talking points! I'm still learning from and enjoying it as much as ever.

Of course you are because you are a huge lib who loves living in a tax payer funded echo chamber who hates any diversity of thought.

Tell me you don’t listen by telling me you don’t listen.

Tell us you're very liberal and love NPR's spectrum of liberal perspectives and narratives without saying it out loud.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the quarterly bash NPR thread with the same tired and false talking points! I'm still learning from and enjoying it as much as ever.

Of course you are because you are a huge lib who loves living in a tax payer funded echo chamber who hates any diversity of thought.

Tell me you don’t listen by telling me you don’t listen.

Tell us you're very liberal and love NPR's spectrum of liberal perspectives and narratives without saying it out loud.

I do generally love those. And I detest the asinine conservative guests/perspectives they also share.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the quarterly bash NPR thread with the same tired and false talking points! I'm still learning from and enjoying it as much as ever.

Of course you are because you are a huge lib who loves living in a tax payer funded echo chamber who hates any diversity of thought.

Tell me you don’t listen by telling me you don’t listen.

Tell us you're very liberal and love NPR's spectrum of liberal perspectives and narratives without saying it out loud.

I do generally love those. And I detest the asinine conservative guests/perspectives they also share.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:It's the quarterly bash NPR thread with the same tired and false talking points! I'm still learning from and enjoying it as much as ever.

Of course you are because you are a huge lib who loves living in a tax payer funded echo chamber who hates any diversity of thought.

Tell me you don’t listen by telling me you don’t listen.

Tell us you're very liberal and love NPR's spectrum of liberal perspectives and narratives without saying it out loud.

I do generally love those. And I detest the asinine conservative guests/perspectives they also share.

+1

When they get tax dollars, they're not supposed to just reflect YOUR thoughts and opinions.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the quarterly bash NPR thread with the same tired and false talking points! I'm still learning from and enjoying it as much as ever.

Of course you are because you are a huge lib who loves living in a tax payer funded echo chamber who hates any diversity of thought.

The only ones who have zero diversity of thought is conservatives.

They are also beyond stupid.

From Newsmax OAN, FOX, Breibart, Epoch Times, Washington Examiner, National Review, WSJ, all of which are Russian and Chinese Propaganda.

$786 million Fox already paid out
$2.7 Billion Fox is headed to pay out. The rest will all be bankrupted by the Smartmatic judgment. Fact conservatives are the party of dumb un-American Putin supporters.

MAGA is a cult full stop no other anything just a dumb cult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread started because someone from inside NPR for 25 years said things have gotten bad. He commented to Bari Weiss that there were ZERO Republicans in the newsroom and the reaction was, "Huh," and not, "Holy crap, how did that happen--we need to fix that." This is not OK. This is not neutral. I used to be an avid listener, but I can't listen anymore. Every story is presented as an identity-based narrative with some sob story. Ugh. It's awful.

I think this merits a footnote. It referred specifically to DC registered voters. And honestly, voting in the Democratic primary in DC is really the only way to have any impact, because the Republican Party in DC is almost nonexistent.

[Anonymous]

I mean… yeahs NPR gets annoyingly left wing naval gazey…
But the dude whining about it is a RWNJ. Like, I was interested in his perspective, until he starts harping about their coverage of the Mueller Report and crying about “no collusion”’etc etc etc…
Umm the report goes into serious detail about the Trump campaign meeting, sharing info, and working with Russian intelligence.
There is also a senate intel report that was authored by Republicans saying the same.
In fact it would have been great if NPR had spent a little less time focusing on diverse perspectives and intersectionality and gotten their Fing heads in the game.
Same with the rest of the media.

[Anonymous]

When trying to understand the progressive perspective, not the liberal one, the progressive…the most important thing to understand is that for progressives it’s critically important for them to feel
like they’re the “good guys”, that they’re the good, the true, and the virtuous ones. Politics an almost a form of religious devotion for them. They are as exhausting as evangelical right-wing thumpers.

[Anonymous]

I am far to the left and quit listening to NPR a long time ago. It's piss-poor news coverage--often bloviating for long segments about stuff that isn't particularly central to the day--and the analysis sucks also.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the quarterly bash NPR thread with the same tired and false talking points! I'm still learning from and enjoying it as much as ever.

Of course you are because you are a huge lib who loves living in a tax payer funded echo chamber who hates any diversity of thought.

Tell me you don’t listen by telling me you don’t listen.

Tell us you're very liberal and love NPR's spectrum of liberal perspectives and narratives without saying it out loud.

I do generally love those. And I detest the asinine conservative guests/perspectives they also share.

+1

When they get tax dollars, they're not supposed to just reflect YOUR thoughts and opinions.

Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

There is nothing redeeming about conservatives in 2024.