Why is NPR allowed to be so far left?

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Anonymous wrote:I vote democrat and even I think that NPR is liberal BS. This morning they spent my commute time interviewing a male police officer who decided to become a woman in his 40s or 50s. Can't they just report the news?

Great example. Every day they find these absurd completely exaggerated stories. On immigration, every illegal is a 4.0 GPA teenage student who volunteers at a hospital and takes care of her mom who is cancer.

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OP, are you listening to the national news or the local/syndicated programs? The news is fairly balanced, but the local programs cater to the local markets that support them (free market and all that).

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Anonymous wrote:2% of NPR's budget comes from the government. 15% for PBS.

Sorry (not sorry) if you're bored by facts, numbers, and special interest stories.

Great. Should be 0%.

Ah, a refreshing palate cleanser of Republican and Libertarian thought circa 2000. As annoying now as it was then.

Do you have an actual rebuttal argument? Is there a reason government should fund media that leans one way? Waiting for your thoughtful, footnoted response!

I owe you nothing considering your "0%" comment was about as meaningful a contribution as a can of beans.

Since you seem to enjoy overreacting: I also think Fox "News" has no business being on the air, conning gullible morons. If they're allowed to be on the air, they should be forced to run crawlers that indicate the show is to be used for entertainment purposes only, and should not be assumed to be factual.

Glad you're ready to ditch the 1st amendment then.

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Marketplace, Science Friday, Wait Wait, All Things Considered. What's not to LOVE? NPR brought us Car Talk, for Pete's sake!

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I don't care what LGTQ people do. I don't know anyone who does.

Mike Pence says hi.

I meant they can do what they want. I have a ton of conservative family not a single one gives a flying crap about where anyone goes the bathroom or any other of these wedge issues NPR constantly shoves down viewers' throats. It is totally a lefty propaganda arm. I listen to it at work and it's frequently nauseating and phony.

This is so surprising to me. It seems to me that conservatives are OBSESSED with issues like who can get married and where people go to the bathroom (esp. if they are LGBTQ). They totally want to govern the bedroom, the bathroom, etc. I mean that's why they're passing laws about this crap left and right - and so NPR dutifully reports on these issues -- driven by the right's agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:Marketplace, Science Friday, Wait Wait, All Things Considered. What's not to LOVE? NPR brought us Car Talk, for Pete's sake!

Wait wait is the most cringeworthy and corny and uninspired "comedy" I've ever heard. Do they really fill auditoriums for that show? You'd have to pay me $500 to sit through an hour of that.

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Anonymous wrote:Marketplace, Science Friday, Wait Wait, All Things Considered. What's not to LOVE? NPR brought us Car Talk, for Pete's sake!

Wait wait is the most cringeworthy and corny and uninspired "comedy" I've ever heard. Do they really fill auditoriums for that show? You'd have to pay me $500 to sit through an hour of that.

That's the beauty of NPR - a wide variety of programming. I'm partial to the BBC newshour myself.

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Anonymous wrote:NPR seems pretty mainstream to me.

That's cause your a f g lib

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Anonymous wrote:NPR seems pretty mainstream to me.

Our radios are set to NPR in our cars, bedroom, office, and kitchen. We listen to it all the time, but their interviews frequently "lean left." We're fairly conservative, and I find it rather amusing that their interviewers will frame questions in a way that sets up the conservative candidate or policy as "concerning to many Americans." So obvious. Of course, they're using perfect English and speaking with a well-modulated, concerned tone of voice to express their thoughts.

NPR has "conservative" voices on all the time - David Brooks, Ross Douthout, etc. Lots of in-depth stories about religion. They are also frequent critics of Obamacare, national security policies, lack of accountability of police and local governments, and (lack of) whistleblower protections. WAMU in DC is extremely critical of the DC government.

I feel that they've always been fair and stuck to the facts.

+1. I think people who complain how "liberal" it is don't listen to it all that much. And can't handle when a news organization doesn't puppet their own views like Fox.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't we pay for this? It's basically MSNBC radio. Non stop Trump bashing, non stop white guilt, non stop LGTQ crap, and every other hour is at least one sympathetic reference to immigration (both legal and illegal).

I don't care what LGTQ people do. I don't know anyone who does.

I assume you're conservative from the way your question was put. Many conservatives seem to care very much what LGBT people do...they fought gay marriage, then they turned to legislating bathroom usage.

Of course NPR has to cover that because it's news.

I think what OP was saying is that he and those mainstream people that he knows do not care about this issue. I agree, I do not and no one that I know does. This issue only has legs because the democrats found a wedge issue to put the republicans in a box. In fact, Obama was against gay marriage only a few years ago until it became politically expedient to flip his position.

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Anonymous wrote:I vote democrat and even I think that NPR is liberal BS. This morning they spent my commute time interviewing a male police officer who decided to become a woman in his 40s or 50s. Can't they just report the news?

So don't listen?

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Anonymous wrote:NPR seems pretty mainstream to me.

Our radios are set to NPR in our cars, bedroom, office, and kitchen. We listen to it all the time, but their interviews frequently "lean left." We're fairly conservative, and I find it rather amusing that their interviewers will frame questions in a way that sets up the conservative candidate or policy as "concerning to many Americans." So obvious. Of course, they're using perfect English and speaking with a well-modulated, concerned tone of voice to express their thoughts.

NPR has "conservative" voices on all the time - David Brooks, Ross Douthout, etc. Lots of in-depth stories about religion. They are also frequent critics of Obamacare, national security policies, lack of accountability of police and local governments, and (lack of) whistleblower protections. WAMU in DC is extremely critical of the DC government.

I feel that they've always been fair and stuck to the facts.

+1. I think people who complain how "liberal" it is don't listen to it all that much. And can't handle when a news organization doesn't puppet their own views like Fox.

Not sure why Fox is brought up. OP said he did not support NPR because it is slanted left and funded with tax payer money. Fox is not funded with tax payer money. Big difference.

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I agree. While I do listen to NPR, I am getting more and more frustrated. It is so liberal that it borders on the ridiculous.

Also, the Sunday morning host is so annoying. Her shows should be titled, "Black Lives Matter" because ALL she talks about is African Americans and their experiences. It is 90% of her show.

I still like Scott Simon and while I know he is liberal, his interviews are not completely biased. Plus he has a nice variety of topics on his Sat. morning show.

The weekday morning hosts are blatantly anti-Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:I vote democrat and even I think that NPR is liberal BS. This morning they spent my commute time interviewing a male police officer who decided to become a woman in his 40s or 50s. Can't they just report the news?

So don't listen?

Have you read the point of this thread? It's not about whether I should listen. It's about whether NPR is so biased, yet it receives federal funding for its biased views. It's pretty indefensible that they receive funding. Either be balanced or don't take government money.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't we pay for this? It's basically MSNBC radio. Non stop Trump bashing, non stop white guilt, non stop LGTQ crap, and every other hour is at least one sympathetic reference to immigration (both legal and illegal).

I don't care what LGTQ people do. I don't know anyone who does.

Donald, Donald! Calm down. This isn't helping your blood pressure.

Agreed, Donny. You;re going to stroke out before the election if you keep this up.