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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uri Berliner's article made it okay for people to say out loud what they have been thinking... NPR has gone down hill. Full stop. They are losing listeners and had to cut staff due to budget shortfalls. The organization is not thriving. 
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Naysayers who continue to defend the organization say all is great.[/b] But facts don't support this and Uri Berliner's concerns clearly resonate with a lot of listeners. [/quote]

Every last one of them is ultra-left wing and cannot stand  people who  are different from them.  They are not tolerant. [/quote]

I can’t speak for anyone else but I think anyone who is a Republican in 2024 is a total POS. There isn’t a single valid reason unless you’re anti-democracy, anti-diversity, anti-LGBTQ, anti-woman, anti-environment, or anti-fact.

After the last several years, I have no patience for their bullcrap.

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DP. Yeah, this is what the PP was talking about. This is the opposite of tolerance. [/quote]

DP.  I will admit to an intolerance of outright lies and insane conspiracy theories.  I do not want those repeated ad nauseum on any news source I spend my time on unless there is clear debunking that follows immediately.

If the GOP and the right want to  have their views covered, they need to start saying something in the realm of reality.  I am happy to listen to *conservative* viewpoints on finance etc.  Bring it on.  But right now, the GOP is the party of far-right nutjobs.   Their lies should not be parroted unchecked.

[b]And, just so you know, I feel the same way about the far-left nutjobs.  Fact check them.[/b][/quote]

Which doesn’t seem to be what NPR is willing to do any more. That’s why we are in this mess. [/quote]

Please give an example of a far-left position that was reported without fact checking.  I'm truly asking.[/quote]

Great question. Anyone? 
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I will answer you seriously, but I don’t think you actually want a serious answer. However, I will try.

As one example, NPR has repeated activist positions and language on medicalized transgender healthcare for minors without sufficient fact-checking or investigating. Take a look at this article here:

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/21/1087937431/a-third-of-trans-youth-are-at-risk-of-losing-gender-affirming-care-study-says

Now, I will state up front that I am completely opposed to state bans on medicalized care for children with gender dysphoria. My political position here actually lies with the obvious bias of the NPR article, although I also believe there have been extremely serious flaws in the medical treatment protocols and data support for those. But state bans aren’t the answer to those flaws.

However, I can still see that this article is woefully short on credible fact-checking. By 2022 there were serious concerns being raised globally about the effectiveness of, evidence base for, and treatment pathways for medicalized care for children with gender dysphoria. This article does not address any of that, doesn’t provide context for the larger scientific debates that were globally going on at that point. The article is unquestionably biased in my opinion.

As for a specific example sentence that isn’t fact-checked: “Adolescents using puberty blockers have been found to have a reduced risk of suicidal thoughts.” The cite for that is a study by Jack Turban, a physician whose studies have been widely challenged for data and methodology weaknesses, and who himself is a significant activist. By 2022 the flaws in the Turban studies were known and widely discussed. Other media entities such as the New York Times were citing Turban in 2022, but also giving context about his role. He isn’t a neutral cite, in other words, and isn’t a sufficient fact-check.

The Cass Review in the UK has not been covered or analyzed by NPR, which is itself a glaring journalistic omission, but even putting that aside, the review itself demonstrates that by the time this article was published in 2022, there were significant and credible concerns raised globally about medicalized care for gender dysphoria in children. None of that is addressed in this article.

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