Why is NPR allowed to be so far left?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Facts skew liberal. "Progressive" views are ones that are moving forward. Conservatives have always been slow adapters. It's okay. Your kids will get there someday even if you don't, and progressives will have moved on yet again.

Are you the same OP from the "Democrats shame Republicans" thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ok. So what are you going to do about it? Have you called your representatives or are you just here to bitch?

[Anonymous]

Y'all got serious issues.
Don't know how to change a channel, don't know how to pick up a different newspaper, don't know how to change a station...
All y'all know how to do is whine and bitch.

The Federal Communications Commission updates a chart every quarter of how many radio and TV stations are there in the United States.
Broadcast Station Totals as of June 30, 2016...31,816 total

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-340211A1.pdf

I'm sure if y'all actually tried you could find a few among those thirty thousand that cater to your political preferences.
Stop bitching all the time damn.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Bingo. That's all NPR does, hammer wedge issues in the most exaggerated and obnoxious and slanted ways day in, day out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Facts skew liberal. "Progressive" views are ones that are moving forward. Conservatives have always been slow adapters. It's okay. Your kids will get there someday even if you don't, and progressives will have moved on yet again.

Are you the same OP from the "Democrats shame Republicans" thread?

No, I'm not. There is nothing to support your assertion that "facts" skew liberal. The rest of your post seems to be the same old tired BS that people like you spew when other people disagree with them -- "if they don't agree with my views, they are [racist, sexist, homophobic, stupid]." Playground logic from people who are too stupid to understand that there is more than one "right" view of the world, and that perhaps our unbiased news sources shouldn't ascribe to just one way of thinking. Playground logic that overlooks the very facts that you've been confronted with (the fact that I'm liberal myself, for example). Just as bad as thoughtless, stupid Trump supporters are liberals who need to be spoon fed each and every "progressive" viewpoint.

[Anonymous]

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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?

What else is there to listen to? I listen because I expect a centrist bi partisan pov. It's never that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

What else is there to listen to? I listen because I expect a centrist bi partisan pov. It's never that.

music. also if you get sirius xm - there are tons of news channels - including fox.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

What else is there to listen to? I listen because I expect a centrist bi partisan pov. It's never that.

Are we listening to the same NPR? They have centrist conservative commentators on ALL THE TIME. Unfortunately, they themselves are exasperated by their own party most of the time because of the batshit crazy things GOP leaders are saying and doing.

If you were a fan of Reagan and Bush Sr, you should be a fan of what conservative commentators on NPR are saying. They levy fair criticisms of both Obama's and the extreme right's policies (not that Obama is an "extreme leftist"). Hillary Clinton is a center-right candidate in pretty much any other democracy in the world.

[Anonymous]

They must put the conservative commentators on at off-hours or something, because in the past 15 years that I've been commuting to and from work I have not heard them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Facts skew liberal. "Progressive" views are ones that are moving forward. Conservatives have always been slow adapters. It's okay. Your kids will get there someday even if you don't, and progressives will have moved on yet again.

Are you the same OP from the "Democrats shame Republicans" thread?

No, I'm not. There is nothing to support your assertion that "facts" skew liberal. The rest of your post seems to be the same old tired BS that people like you spew when other people disagree with them -- "if they don't agree with my views, they are [racist, sexist, homophobic, stupid]." Playground logic from people who are too stupid to understand that there is more than one "right" view of the world, and that perhaps our unbiased news sources shouldn't ascribe to just one way of thinking. Playground logic that overlooks the very facts that you've been confronted with (the fact that I'm liberal myself, for example). Just as bad as thoughtless, stupid Trump supporters are liberals who need to be spoon fed each and every "progressive" viewpoint.

I agree with you. They are biased towards the left. I'm not even saying I want them biased to the right! And I'm not saying they leave out some hot issues. I'm saying they should be reporting on them, discussing them. Not discussing, then *ending* the segment every time on a left slant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They must put the conservative commentators on at off-hours or something, because in the past 15 years that I've been commuting to and from work I have not heard them.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They must put the conservative commentators on at off-hours or something, because in the past 15 years that I've been commuting to and from work I have not heard them.

Mara Liasson, Ross Douthout, David Brooks, Ralph Reed, and tons of pundits from various think tanks (Heritage, Cato, AIPAC, etc) are on. You're not "hearing" them because they sound nothing like the drivel that comes out of rightwing radio or Fox News. The are moderate conservatives who don't necessarily always agree with the Republican party....in other words, they are free-thinking individuals who are not mouthpieces for the GOP. That's why you don't "hear" them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Facts skew liberal. "Progressive" views are ones that are moving forward. Conservatives have always been slow adapters. It's okay. Your kids will get there someday even if you don't, and progressives will have moved on yet again.

Are you the same OP from the "Democrats shame Republicans" thread?

No, I'm not. There is nothing to support your assertion that "facts" skew liberal. The rest of your post seems to be the same old tired BS that people like you spew when other people disagree with them -- "if they don't agree with my views, they are [racist, sexist, homophobic, stupid]." Playground logic from people who are too stupid to understand that there is more than one "right" view of the world, and that perhaps our unbiased news sources shouldn't ascribe to just one way of thinking. Playground logic that overlooks the very facts that you've been confronted with (the fact that I'm liberal myself, for example). Just as bad as thoughtless, stupid Trump supporters are liberals who need to be spoon fed each and every "progressive" viewpoint.

Well, obviously you don't think there is more than one "right" view of the world, because you are objecting to programming that shows a variety of viewpoints as too "far left." You obviously think that your viewpoint is the only one that matters, even in a heterogeneous society like the US.

[Anonymous]

NPR listeners are the most informed group, according to well publicized research that I can't link to on my phone.

Fox News consumers actually knew less facts about the world then people who never listened to news media.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

What else is there to listen to? I listen because I expect a centrist bi partisan pov. It's never that.

Are we listening to the same NPR? They have centrist conservative commentators on ALL THE TIME. Unfortunately, they themselves are exasperated by their own party most of the time because of the batshit crazy things GOP leaders are saying and doing.

If you were a fan of Reagan and Bush Sr, you should be a fan of what conservative commentators on NPR are saying. They levy fair criticisms of both Obama's and the extreme right's policies (not that Obama is an "extreme leftist"). Hillary Clinton is a center-right candidate in pretty much any other democracy in the world.

I will agree I hear more criticism of Obama on npr than any other left-biased media. Making them only slightly left? Left but not afraid to allow room for criticism (my theory is they are just negative all the time* so it fits). However HRC is NOT center right. *I* am the epitome of center right (very center, very slightly right), and I disagree with her on almost every issue. Only area we'd agree is foreign policy. So I guess she's center right on FP (and that makes sense as I guess the libs are always naming her a warhawk.)

*negatuvd all the time = yep, they feed off of a negative news story. Ones that are as hopeless and contentious as possible. All of the music/beats they play in between segments give me momentary depression. Stuff I would have listened to when I was 21. In my emo phase.