NPR- Who Is Their Base Now?

[Anonymous]

I thought every story on Morning Edition this morning was pretty good. https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/

Not sure what people are carping about?

[Anonymous]

At home I'll listen to audio books and I don't watch the news or visit news sites much anymore (especially since cnn got taken over by a trump fan and the stories have obvious right leanings coupled with trump photoshppped pics) so npr is my news source. I should up my donation a lot more!

[Anonymous]

I listen to NPR on Saturdays because I like a lot of the Saturday shows. Don't listen to it much of the work week. Might listen to the news for a little while in the morning on my drive in or home, but just for a little while as I typically want to listen to SiriusXM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like you’re listening to the local portion, not NPR national programming.

OP here- correct. I listen to WAMU. I actually was a member for years, but I stopped donating after the Mike Brown/ Ferguson Missouri coverage went off he rails. At one point they were blaming the old Korean shop owner (who was beaten by the twice larger Brown) for 'preying' on poor black neighborhoods and therefore got what he deserved.

RE: Bluegrass on HD- that is different. That's streaming, of course. I'm talking about a national broadcast of bluegrass for two hours every Sunday.

I bet they wouldn't even host Car Talk anymore even if the brothers were still alive.

Good grief!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another NPR bashing thread?

And there should be more.

I was a longtime NPR listener. My kids used to hum to the All Things Considered jangle. NPR was always in the background. I tend to lean pretty left on most issues.

But NPR has gone completely off the rails. It's insufferable. I stopped listening several years ago. I think it was during Covid and they ran a story about how the pandemic was impacting the LatinX transgender community working in the California wine industry.

I was just done. I don't know who they think their audience is. I don't think twenty year olds going to Oberlin is a huge market. But that seems to be what they're after.

I think NPR is one of those institutions that has been completely destroyed by DEI. It's not the only one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who listens to the radio in 2023?

I listen whenever I am in the car.

You should be texting on your phone, loser.

[Anonymous]

I really like 1A and Marketplace. Otherwise, meh. Even Fresh Air is losing steam as Terry Gross steps back. I think 1A is a better successor to what Fresh Air used to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I listen to the radio in the shower each morning and I flip between NPR, Elliot in the morning and WTOP. I try to catch NPR at the top and bottom of the hour for news. Today they started the news not with any remarks on September 11th but rather with more talk about Trump indictments. Then they moved onto local sports and it was 90% devoted to the Mystics (female basketball) and not a single word about the Commanders win for the first time in this post- Snyder era. The Nats loss to the Dodgers got no mention.

It struck me that they have just really, really jumped the shark. Is it only for looney far lefties now?

The local news, WAMU, won't have anything about 9/11. The Mystics finished the regular season this weekend and are prob going to playoffs. Football has barely started and the nats-dodgers game only affected the dodger's standing. Why cover another loss?

Not sure what you are expecting...

Why wouldn’t they? The pentagon was attacked. WTOP covered it today.

[Anonymous]

I've been listening all day and there's been plenty of coverage of 911. More than I'd like to listen to. I'm a regular listener.
I listen in the car as well as with the Tunein Radio on my phone while I walk the dog and at home on my Alexa.
When I travel for work, I love using Tunein to listen to my home-local radio station no matter where I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I listen to the radio in the shower each morning and I flip between NPR, Elliot in the morning and WTOP. I try to catch NPR at the top and bottom of the hour for news. Today they started the news not with any remarks on September 11th but rather with more talk about Trump indictments. Then they moved onto local sports and it was 90% devoted to the Mystics (female basketball) and not a single word about the Commanders win for the first time in this post- Snyder era. The Nats loss to the Dodgers got no mention.

It struck me that they have just really, really jumped the shark. Is it only for looney far lefties now?

The local news, WAMU, won't have anything about 9/11. The Mystics finished the regular season this weekend and are prob going to playoffs. Football has barely started and the nats-dodgers game only affected the dodger's standing. Why cover another loss?

Not sure what you are expecting...

Why wouldn’t they? The pentagon was attacked. WTOP covered it today.

because the news is the news at the top and bottom of the hour, not "this day in history." Although, I am pretty sure they did close out the morning news after CWG with an acknowledgment of the day. Morning Edition covered it and so will ATC. Does it need to be mentioned a thousand times an hour?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another NPR bashing thread?

And there should be more.

I was a longtime NPR listener. My kids used to hum to the All Things Considered jangle. NPR was always in the background. I tend to lean pretty left on most issues.

But NPR has gone completely off the rails. It's insufferable. I stopped listening several years ago. I think it was during Covid and they ran a story about how the pandemic was impacting the LatinX transgender community working in the California wine industry.

I was just done. I don't know who they think their audience is. I don't think twenty year olds going to Oberlin is a huge market. But that seems to be what they're after.

I think NPR is one of those institutions that has been completely destroyed by DEI. It's not the only one.

So people can recycle the same complaints over and over again?

“I listed for five minutes and they talked about the wrong sports team. Wah.”

Lame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I listen to the radio in the shower each morning and I flip between NPR, Elliot in the morning and WTOP. I try to catch NPR at the top and bottom of the hour for news. Today they started the news not with any remarks on September 11th but rather with more talk about Trump indictments. Then they moved onto local sports and it was 90% devoted to the Mystics (female basketball) and not a single word about the Commanders win for the first time in this post- Snyder era. The Nats loss to the Dodgers got no mention.

It struck me that they have just really, really jumped the shark. Is it only for looney far lefties now?

The local news, WAMU, won't have anything about 9/11. The Mystics finished the regular season this weekend and are prob going to playoffs. Football has barely started and the nats-dodgers game only affected the dodger's standing. Why cover another loss?

Not sure what you are expecting...

Why wouldn’t they? The pentagon was attacked. WTOP covered it today.

because the news is the news at the top and bottom of the hour, not "this day in history." Although, I am pretty sure they did close out the morning news after CWG with an acknowledgment of the day. Morning Edition covered it and so will ATC. Does it need to be mentioned a thousand times an hour?

No, just at that exact moment that OP tunes in.

[Anonymous]

It’s for those with a “smash capitalism” sticker on their 2500$ MacBook who spend their time spending significant portions of their paycheck on Starbucks

[Anonymous]

NP. Idk, OP. I listened to NPR in my car for many years, but it’s entirely irrelevant now. They don’t seem to cover anything substantive any more. I’ve stopped listening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another NPR bashing thread?

And there should be more.

I was a longtime NPR listener. My kids used to hum to the All Things Considered jangle. NPR was always in the background. I tend to lean pretty left on most issues.

But NPR has gone completely off the rails. It's insufferable. I stopped listening several years ago. I think it was during Covid and they ran a story about how the pandemic was impacting the LatinX transgender community working in the California wine industry.

I was just done. I don't know who they think their audience is. I don't think twenty year olds going to Oberlin is a huge market. But that seems to be what they're after.

I think NPR is one of those institutions that has been completely destroyed by DEI. It's not the only one.

So people can recycle the same complaints over and over again?

“I listed for five minutes and they talked about the wrong sports team. Wah.”

Lame.

Oh no! One of the dozens of shows on NPR ran one story about a niche group yu are unfamiliar with. The horrors, the absolute horror. So horrifying you must not have heard the hundreds of other stories aboutcovid and different groups, including children, parents, and the unemployed. But I hear you--going a little further off map to tell other people's stories really is just a step too far.