NPR- Who Is Their Base Now?

[Anonymous]

I used to love NPR. Recently I’ve been busy and just want the news while driving. If they’re doing news or BBC news hour, I’m interested. But most of the time, it seems like soft content… like interviews centered around people’s feelings, what it’s like to be a millennial female fiction writer, etc. I’m interested in that to a point but for me, there’s just too much of that now. Prefer more world news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

Thanks for posting that. I just listened to the story. It was interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another NPR bashing thread?

its pledge week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

Thanks for posting that. I just listened to the story. It was interesting.

Also heard the Nicaragua story this morning. Good stuff and hardly fluff.

[Anonymous]

You can ask your smart speaker to play NPR.

They should NOT do sports. Also, I hate even hearing the phrase "hot jazz Saturday night"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you listen for just a few minutes and then complain that you didn't hear what you expected to hear.

I listen all day every day (it’s my background noise) and nothing OP said is non-representative or inaccurate.

[Anonymous]

Get outside the major cities. Local NPR affiliates do a lot of local stories. Lots of rural focused content once you leave the city.

It's there, but you're here in DC. And so you're going to get NPR that tailored for here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can ask your smart speaker to play NPR.

They should NOT do sports. Also, I hate even hearing the phrase "hot jazz Saturday night"

Lol, same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who listens to the radio in 2023?

Everyone with Alexa or Google Home

[Anonymous]

Every other story is about race. almost all black and white, few Asians, Latin Americans, Eastern Europeans. No single topic deserves as much attention as they give to race, when there is so much in the world to talk about.

[Anonymous]

I listen to WAMU all day during the week on two (!!) radios in my house. I’m a liberal, 35 year old mother of 3. Also a sustaining member!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who listens to the radio in 2023?

I listen whenever I am in the car.

+1 and we still listen to our Bose radio

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every other story is about race. almost all black and white, few Asians, Latin Americans, Eastern Europeans. No single topic deserves as much attention as they give to race, when there is so much in the world to talk about.

Prove it. These are today's local stories. https://wamu.org/
Morning Edition: https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/
1A:https://the1a.org/ Tomorrow's show
Here and Now:https://www.wbur.org/radio/programs/hereandnow
ATC: https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/

This is today and pretty representative of content. I think confirmation bias has reared its head--you hear what you think you hear.

[Anonymous]

Well Loudoun County Public Schools for one. My 4th grade son came home two years ago after having listened to this 23 minute podcast at school (that he accessed through his classroom online virtual library, on his county issued Chromebook) telling me that someday he could have a baby! Try untangling that at bedtime with a 10 year old because surely if my teacher let me watch it and it was on the internet it must be true.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-are-babies-made/id1103320303?i=1000414213516

Transcript:
[Scarlett] Why can girls have babies but boys can’t?
[Jane] That's Scarlett. She's seven years old and lives in Los Angeles, California and she wants to know why girls can have babies but boys cannot?
[Cory] This is a really good question Scarlett and I have a kind of surprising answer for you because even though you've probably only ever heard of women having babies and even though almost all the time it is girls or women that have babies sometimes it's different. So I need to explain this part, to give birth what you need is you need the uterus. People who have uteruses are the ones that can give birth. A baby can come out of your body because the uterus is the part where the baby grows. But most people who have a uterus are girls or women. But sometimes a boy or man can have a uterus and those men with a uterus can give birth. So it is true that almost all the time it's girls that have babies but not all of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every other story is about race. almost all black and white, few Asians, Latin Americans, Eastern Europeans. No single topic deserves as much attention as they give to race, when there is so much in the world to talk about.

Prove it. These are today's local stories. https://wamu.org/
Morning Edition: https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/
1A:https://the1a.org/ Tomorrow's show
Here and Now:https://www.wbur.org/radio/programs/hereandnow
ATC: https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/

This is today and pretty representative of content. I think confirmation bias has reared its head--you hear what you think you hear.

Oh sweet Jesus. At least own it. I can't remember a single story in the last year about the struggles ofg cis white males. I'm sure youre chuckling right now, but thats my point.

Are they the only group in America not deserving of empathy? How many stories do we need beaten into our heads about how hard it is to be gay..... in 2023!!!