Save NPR and PBS

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Anonymous wrote:If it's that good, it can stand on its own, right?

NP, no it can’t. PBS stations don’t run advertising and what they air has education value and not commercial value. Many stations can survive via fund raising but in remote areas the money isn’t there.

The CEO of pbs lives in a mansion outside Roundhill.

Long overdue to let them stand on their own

There are a lot of rural communities like rural Kansas where public broadcasting is the only way they have to get local news, weather, high school sports, agricultural updates and so on. Smoky Hills PBS serves 1.2 Kansans over 71 counties. They are going to be gutted, losing half of their budget.

Seems Trump gives even less of a shit about rural "flyover country" than the democrats do.

Well then they should have been more responsible and reported the news such as high school sports and weather and ag reports; and avoided progressive nonsense.

I’m a former NPR listener who was shocked by how biased it had become in recent years. Can you imagine if a public radio had dared report with a conservative lens?

They 100% deserve this.

They do their best. How would you go about being "neutral" when one side consists of typical politicians while the other side lies, then claims any fact checking is biased?

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust



Their best isn't good enough. Even former employees are down on them.

Even current and former Fox News employees are not supporting their current pro-dictator fake news agenda.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If it's that good, it can stand on its own, right?

Ask the mooch states which depends on tax from blue states.

The DC area is far worse than the average red state: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/12/states-money-federal-government

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Anonymous wrote:If it's that good, it can stand on its own, right?

NP, no it can’t. PBS stations don’t run advertising and what they air has education value and not commercial value. Many stations can survive via fund raising but in remote areas the money isn’t there.

The CEO of pbs lives in a mansion outside Roundhill.

Long overdue to let them stand on their own

There are a lot of rural communities like rural Kansas where public broadcasting is the only way they have to get local news, weather, high school sports, agricultural updates and so on. Smoky Hills PBS serves 1.2 Kansans over 71 counties. They are going to be gutted, losing half of their budget.

Seems Trump gives even less of a shit about rural "flyover country" than the democrats do.

Well then they should have been more responsible and reported the news such as high school sports and weather and ag reports; and avoided progressive nonsense.

I’m a former NPR listener who was shocked by how biased it had become in recent years. Can you imagine if a public radio had dared report with a conservative lens?

They 100% deserve this.

As has been pointed out many times, reality has a liberal bias. Sorry about your feelings.

I imagine that a liberal's brain is full of 20 slogans that appear in their minds when agitated, like a Magic 8 Ball. "Every accusation is a confession/projection!" "History will judge you!" "Reality has a liberal bias!"

It's like there's a hamster in a wheel powering their brains, searching for the right slogan or accusation to throw out. Pathetic.

I’m sorry, can you show me on doll where the educated people hurt your feelings, snowflake?

He can't, it is deep inside, the inferiority complex.

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Anonymous wrote:If it's that good, it can stand on its own, right?

NP, no it can’t. PBS stations don’t run advertising and what they air has education value and not commercial value. Many stations can survive via fund raising but in remote areas the money isn’t there.

The CEO of pbs lives in a mansion outside Roundhill.

Long overdue to let them stand on their own

There are a lot of rural communities like rural Kansas where public broadcasting is the only way they have to get local news, weather, high school sports, agricultural updates and so on. Smoky Hills PBS serves 1.2 Kansans over 71 counties. They are going to be gutted, losing half of their budget.

Seems Trump gives even less of a shit about rural "flyover country" than the democrats do.

Well then they should have been more responsible and reported the news such as high school sports and weather and ag reports; and avoided progressive nonsense.

I’m a former NPR listener who was shocked by how biased it had become in recent years. Can you imagine if a public radio had dared report with a conservative lens?

They 100% deserve this.

They do their best. How would you go about being "neutral" when one side consists of typical politicians while the other side lies, then claims any fact checking is biased?

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust



Their best isn't good enough. Even former employees are down on them.

Even current and former Fox News employees are not supporting their current pro-dictator fake news agenda.

So is your assertion that it's okay for NPR to lie and have biased reporting since Fox does too?

Explain why its okay for taxpayer money to be used to emulate Fox.

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Anonymous wrote:If it's that good, it can stand on its own, right?

NP, no it can’t. PBS stations don’t run advertising and what they air has education value and not commercial value. Many stations can survive via fund raising but in remote areas the money isn’t there.

The CEO of pbs lives in a mansion outside Roundhill.

Long overdue to let them stand on their own

There are a lot of rural communities like rural Kansas where public broadcasting is the only way they have to get local news, weather, high school sports, agricultural updates and so on. Smoky Hills PBS serves 1.2 Kansans over 71 counties. They are going to be gutted, losing half of their budget.

Seems Trump gives even less of a shit about rural "flyover country" than the democrats do.

Well then they should have been more responsible and reported the news such as high school sports and weather and ag reports; and avoided progressive nonsense.

I’m a former NPR listener who was shocked by how biased it had become in recent years. Can you imagine if a public radio had dared report with a conservative lens?

They 100% deserve this.

As has been pointed out many times, reality has a liberal bias. Sorry about your feelings.

I imagine that a liberal's brain is full of 20 slogans that appear in their minds when agitated, like a Magic 8 Ball. "Every accusation is a confession/projection!" "History will judge you!" "Reality has a liberal bias!"

It's like there's a hamster in a wheel powering their brains, searching for the right slogan or accusation to throw out. Pathetic.

I’m sorry, can you show me on doll where the educated people hurt your feelings, snowflake?

You say this on every thread. Its a 20 or 30 year old joke that everyone has heard and is no longer clever. Get some new material.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bias is just as much about what is not reported as it is about what is reported.

My job is related to a topic that is very high profile. I know topic very well and I have seen NPRs reporting on it omit critical facts in order to present the issue in a particular way. Facts have a “liberal bias” only when you want them to.

Did you meant to day Fox?

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Anonymous wrote:They have to make it until 2029, that’s it. I honestly don’t know where to get reliable news or tv worth watching. The guardian, and I subscribe to britbox and acorn on prime, but that’s not much.

We will keep it alive till 2029. F the republicans and fake christians.

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Anonymous wrote:Bias is just as much about what is not reported as it is about what is reported.

My job is related to a topic that is very high profile. I know topic very well and I have seen NPRs reporting on it omit critical facts in order to present the issue in a particular way. Facts have a “liberal bias” only when you want them to.

Did you meant to day Fox?

This is how I imagine the political discourse on an Amazon warehouse floor. Also, when the pp constantly mentions their education (unusual behavior among educated people), I assume they are referring to their semester at Jr College.

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Anonymous wrote:If it's that good, it can stand on its own, right?

NP, no it can’t. PBS stations don’t run advertising and what they air has education value and not commercial value. Many stations can survive via fund raising but in remote areas the money isn’t there.

The CEO of pbs lives in a mansion outside Roundhill.

Long overdue to let them stand on their own

There are a lot of rural communities like rural Kansas where public broadcasting is the only way they have to get local news, weather, high school sports, agricultural updates and so on. Smoky Hills PBS serves 1.2 Kansans over 71 counties. They are going to be gutted, losing half of their budget.

Seems Trump gives even less of a shit about rural "flyover country" than the democrats do.

Well then they should have been more responsible and reported the news such as high school sports and weather and ag reports; and avoided progressive nonsense.

I’m a former NPR listener who was shocked by how biased it had become in recent years. Can you imagine if a public radio had dared report with a conservative lens?

They 100% deserve this.

As has been pointed out many times, reality has a liberal bias. Sorry about your feelings.

I imagine that a liberal's brain is full of 20 slogans that appear in their minds when agitated, like a Magic 8 Ball. "Every accusation is a confession/projection!" "History will judge you!" "Reality has a liberal bias!"

It's like there's a hamster in a wheel powering their brains, searching for the right slogan or accusation to throw out. Pathetic.

I’m sorry, can you show me on doll where the educated people hurt your feelings, snowflake?

You say this on every thread. It's a 20 or 30 year old joke that everyone has heard and is no longer clever. Get some new material.

Yes, just like Clinton's emails.

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Anonymous wrote:If it's that good, it can stand on its own, right?

NP, no it can’t. PBS stations don’t run advertising and what they air has education value and not commercial value. Many stations can survive via fund raising but in remote areas the money isn’t there.

The CEO of pbs lives in a mansion outside Roundhill.

Long overdue to let them stand on their own

There are a lot of rural communities like rural Kansas where public broadcasting is the only way they have to get local news, weather, high school sports, agricultural updates and so on. Smoky Hills PBS serves 1.2 Kansans over 71 counties. They are going to be gutted, losing half of their budget.

Seems Trump gives even less of a shit about rural "flyover country" than the democrats do.

Well then they should have been more responsible and reported the news such as high school sports and weather and ag reports; and avoided progressive nonsense.

I’m a former NPR listener who was shocked by how biased it had become in recent years. Can you imagine if a public radio had dared report with a conservative lens?

They 100% deserve this.

They do their best. How would you go about being "neutral" when one side consists of typical politicians while the other side lies, then claims any fact checking is biased?

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust



Their best isn't good enough. Even former employees are down on them.

Even current and former Fox News employees are not supporting their current pro-dictator fake news agenda.

So is your assertion that it's okay for NPR to lie and have biased reporting since Fox does too?

Explain why its okay for taxpayer money to be used to emulate Fox.

You are using one person's opinion to defame a whole organization, your logic is wrong. It is like some churches are covering evil things such as child sexual abuses, but nobody is tarring all the churches. Or maybe you are for taxing all churches?

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They've been getting record donations. I've been told over the decades that the government only provides a small portion of funding.

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Anonymous wrote:I listened to NPR today and it sounded like the far left wing government run media. No thanks. Its bad because imagine a far right wing govt run media sounds like some communist shit

You only think this because you are oblivious to your own absurdly biased worldview, to the point where you can't even recognize reality. Pretty much every independent analysis places NPR as being among the LEAST partisan and biased news out there. For you to consider it "far left communist shit" is far more of a commentary on how radically far right you are as opposed to making any legitimate commentary about NPR.

https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive

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Anonymous wrote:If it's that good, it can stand on its own, right?

NP, no it can’t. PBS stations don’t run advertising and what they air has education value and not commercial value. Many stations can survive via fund raising but in remote areas the money isn’t there.

The CEO of pbs lives in a mansion outside Roundhill.

Long overdue to let them stand on their own

There are a lot of rural communities like rural Kansas where public broadcasting is the only way they have to get local news, weather, high school sports, agricultural updates and so on. Smoky Hills PBS serves 1.2 Kansans over 71 counties. They are going to be gutted, losing half of their budget.

Seems Trump gives even less of a shit about rural "flyover country" than the democrats do.

Well then they should have been more responsible and reported the news such as high school sports and weather and ag reports; and avoided progressive nonsense.

I’m a former NPR listener who was shocked by how biased it had become in recent years. Can you imagine if a public radio had dared report with a conservative lens?

They 100% deserve this.

They do their best. How would you go about being "neutral" when one side consists of typical politicians while the other side lies, then claims any fact checking is biased?

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust



Their best isn't good enough. Even former employees are down on them.

This is a really good article that explains: Back in 2011, although NPR’s audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to America at large. Twenty-six percent of listeners described themselves as conservative, 23 percent as middle of the road, and 37 percent as liberal.

By 2023, the picture was completely different: only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal. We weren’t just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals.


I remember listening to car talk on NPR and I can picture conservatives did as well. I religiously listened and donated to NPR because I commute 45 minutes a day to work. Since COVID era I gradually stopped. Too many of the interviews and comments were just so far left and sanctimonious it became unbearable.

For example, someone from NPT interviewing a Republican member of congress and the person interviewing would constantly interrupt with an fact from the opposing view spoon feeding listeners how to interpret what he was saying. It was more of a debate than interview. Yet when they interviewed someone liberal they didn’t. I would NOT politically agree with the Republican but I felt like they were treating listeners as morons who needed to be told how to think.

So since I returned to commuting I listen to audiobooks most days.

But I kept giving NPR a try in between books. The ultimate nail in the coffin was when Cokie Robert’s died. She was my favorite on NPR and I actually cried when I heard the news she passed away.

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And to follow up what happened to him after publishing the article where he explains how he tried to warn NPR leadership? This is what NPR itself reports in April 2024:

NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "lost America's trust" by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.

This is so unfortunate because now more than ever we need news that isn’t beholden to corporate interests. We need public radio. What I don’t understand is why NPR doesn’t acknowledge they shifted too far left without having any counterbalance. Berliner found that all the editorial staff were democrats. Hire some Independents and Republicans in order to save public radio.

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Anonymous wrote:NPR is absurdly biased politically.

It never should have received public funding. Trump is merely correcting a longstanding wrong.

Help me understand this sentiment. Their news is not overwhelmingly biased. They have an in depth conversation about the news, interviewing people, and opinions on solutions are given toward the end. NPR is statist, as in they believe the state can solve many problems, but the opinion is not crammed down your throat like it is with cable news.

It’s so bizarre to me that people can’t understand these important differences.

You're not objective. There are organizations that rate media on bias and NPR is consistently considered leftist. At some point in the mid-2010s I had to stop listening to them because the bias was so intense. I switched to CNN.

NPR is in the middle, not even skews left. More center than CNN.

https://guides.library.harvard.edu/newsleans/thechart#s-lg-box-32139330