Has NPR lost America’s trust?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do still generally like NPR, but I find the CONSTANT discussion of race and gay/trans stuff very off putting. There's so much to the world than all this stupid racial/sexual identity crap.

I am not surprised they have lost a big portion of the audience.

It’s not constant.

It never stops. And I am a raging lefty.

[Anonymous]

Basically this. And you can't write it all off as people WFH and not commuting as much, which is NPR's current take on the audience fall-off.


Without wading into politics, it’s definitely a big part of it. Habits changed. Having it on in the car during a commute was routine, and that disappeared for a lot of people, including me.

Could I turn it on at home? Sure, but I rarely th



NPR lost listeners during COVID when people stopped commuting to work. However, the numbers didn't increase once people started returning to the office a few days a week. The numbers keep decreasing. Why? Because lots of loyal listeners got tired of their programming. Simple as that. But apparently not simple enough for NPR leadership who haven't seemed to make the connection yet between bad programming and lose of listeners and sponsors.

[Anonymous]

Listen to WTOP during commute. Top of hour newscast (maybe from CBS Radio, not sure) is short, but generally credible. Usually covers topics which other mainstream media will cover.

Listen to WETA-FM in car at other times. NPR’s short newscast often seems to be from a different planet, often covers different topics, and is not nearly as credible to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basically this. And you can't write it all off as people WFH and not commuting as much, which is NPR's current take on the audience fall-off.


Without wading into politics, it’s definitely a big part of it. Habits changed. Having it on in the car during a commute was routine, and that disappeared for a lot of people, including me.

Could I turn it on at home? Sure, but I rarely th



NPR lost listeners during COVID when people stopped commuting to work. However, the numbers didn't increase once people started returning to the office a few days a week. The numbers keep decreasing. Why? Because lots of loyal listeners got tired of their programming. Simple as that. But apparently not simple enough for NPR leadership who haven't seemed to make the connection yet between bad programming and lose of listeners and sponsors.

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[Anonymous]

Did they do any surveys asking why the Latino and Black listening numbers didn't increase with the new programming? I don't think they like the woke programming either. The article mentioned a hip hop show being cancelled, did they throw in constant intersectionalities into that programming as well? There are tons of places to listen to hip hop discussion that aren't tainted with leftist political beliefs.

[Anonymous]

NPR can stick to its guns on the direction it took and continue to lose listeners, it's up to them. Many listeners including me have moved on to on demand podcasts and news stories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NPR can stick to its guns on the direction it took and continue to lose listeners, it's up to them. Many listeners including me have moved on to on demand podcasts and news stories.

NPR has been the same for the last 40 years. You changed, NPR didn't. All people have moved to more podcasts. That has nothing to do the broadcasting, that is how people now listen to shows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they do any surveys asking why the Latino and Black listening numbers didn't increase with the new programming? I don't think they like the woke programming either. The article mentioned a hip hop show being cancelled, did they throw in constant intersectionalities into that programming as well? There are tons of places to listen to hip hop discussion that aren't tainted with leftist political beliefs.

Please humor me and let me know which hip hop shows don't have a liberal viewpoint so that I can laugh at you.

For me as a black women, it is just the opposite. Don't try to determine what we like or don't like. Most of like "woke". I know you hate that. They used to have really amazing black themed shows. Michele Martin had the BEST show! So many others. They always cancel them. I stopped listening because I believe that they don't invest in black shows. I still listen to Latino USA and other diverse shows. You should listen. You might learn something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NPR can stick to its guns on the direction it took and continue to lose listeners, it's up to them. Many listeners including me have moved on to on demand podcasts and news stories.

NPR has been the same for the last 40 years. You changed, NPR didn't. All people have moved to more podcasts. That has nothing to do the broadcasting, that is how people now listen to shows.

Nope. It has not been the same for all that time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they do any surveys asking why the Latino and Black listening numbers didn't increase with the new programming? I don't think they like the woke programming either. The article mentioned a hip hop show being cancelled, did they throw in constant intersectionalities into that programming as well? There are tons of places to listen to hip hop discussion that aren't tainted with leftist political beliefs.

Please humor me and let me know which hip hop shows don't have a liberal viewpoint so that I can laugh at you.

For me as a black women, it is just the opposite. Don't try to determine what we like or don't like. Most of like "woke". I know you hate that. They used to have really amazing black themed shows. Michele Martin had the BEST show! So many others. They always cancel them. I stopped listening because I believe that they don't invest in black shows. I still listen to Latino USA and other diverse shows. You should listen. You might learn something.

I'm not surprised you're a NPR listener given you believe there is a conspiracy to cancel black shows just based on your feelings. That seems like just the sort of NPR "news" broadcast everyone is complaining about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did they do any surveys asking why the Latino and Black listening numbers didn't increase with the new programming? I don't think they like the woke programming either. The article mentioned a hip hop show being cancelled, did they throw in constant intersectionalities into that programming as well? There are tons of places to listen to hip hop discussion that aren't tainted with leftist political beliefs.

Please humor me and let me know which hip hop shows don't have a liberal viewpoint so that I can laugh at you.

For me as a black women, it is just the opposite. Don't try to determine what we like or don't like. Most of like "woke". I know you hate that. They used to have really amazing black themed shows. Michele Martin had the BEST show! So many others. They always cancel them. I stopped listening because I believe that they don't invest in black shows. I still listen to Latino USA and other diverse shows. You should listen. You might learn something.

I’m not the PP but there is an entire genre of conservative hip hop shows out there. The fact you don’t know this just demonstrates your bubble. They are common enough that famously liberal Rolling Stone wrote about it:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/akademiks-rumble-far-right-platform-hip-hop-1234713809/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NPR can stick to its guns on the direction it took and continue to lose listeners, it's up to them. Many listeners including me have moved on to on demand podcasts and news stories.

NPR has been the same for the last 40 years. You changed, NPR didn't. All people have moved to more podcasts. That has nothing to do the broadcasting, that is how people now listen to shows.

They did not lose 18 million listeners due to podcasts. Some, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NPR can stick to its guns on the direction it took and continue to lose listeners, it's up to them. Many listeners including me have moved on to on demand podcasts and news stories.

NPR has been the same for the last 40 years. You changed, NPR didn't. All people have moved to more podcasts. That has nothing to do the broadcasting, that is how people now listen to shows.

NPR has plenty of podcasts. Their podcasts have the same problem as NPR generally. This is why I dropped Up First from my morning routine. The move to podcasts is not the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do still generally like NPR, but I find the CONSTANT discussion of race and gay/trans stuff very off putting. There's so much to the world than all this stupid racial/sexual identity crap.

I am not surprised they have lost a big portion of the audience.

It’s not constant.

It never stops. And I am a raging lefty.

Who doesn’t actually listen to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NPR can stick to its guns on the direction it took and continue to lose listeners, it's up to them. Many listeners including me have moved on to on demand podcasts and news stories.

NPR has been the same for the last 40 years. You changed, NPR didn't. All people have moved to more podcasts. That has nothing to do the broadcasting, that is how people now listen to shows.

NPR has plenty of podcasts. Their podcasts have the same problem as NPR generally. This is why I dropped Up First from my morning routine. The move to podcasts is not the problem.

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