Anonymous wrote:maybe journalism has been a completely sucky industry to be in since 2008, even at npr, and people who've simply tried their best to tell great stories have thrown in the towel? maybe they're tired of covering anti-vax stats for the 400th time? i blame NO ONE who leaves journalism, no matter how fancy sounding the job.

This. THIS THIS THIS

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Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

What?! Do you mean that Michael Barbaro (and his excessive use of dramatic pauses) isn’t conservative enough for you?!

/s

He's such a weird host and interviewer. I especially like how he acknowledges the speaker though with his "um hmmm". Has the standards just dropped that low that this is now acceptable? But yes on top of that, his pauses along with the background intro music makes every topic seem to be such a big crisis.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

Disagree. It's exactly what it's been my whole life. As close to neutral as we have in this country.


In terms of inside scuttlebutt...I have none. But...someone I talk to a lot who works at NPR and who fits into some of the categories discussed has done some general eye rolling to me lately about office culture there. This is someone in management who's been there a long time. It does seem like morale is, shall we say, not high.

This show has 1 hour a day on WAMU 4 days a week, https://wamu.org/show/the-takeaway Can you read those show descriptions and say they sounds anything other than far left? Is there anything similarly far right that balances it? The morning and evening drives are more neutral, but NPR as a whole is not.

Discussing diversity, a former mayor, environmental impact, abortion and reggae music is what you consider FAR LEFT?
These are all issues in the world? You may not be issues you find interesting but they ARE ISSUES IN THE WORLD.
What do you want to talk about?

Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

Had it been leftist or telling facts that don’t fit your worldview???HMMMM?

Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

As a European listener, it doesn't seem leftist as much as non-questioning. The US is very much a right-of-center country, and your Democrats aren't progressive or leftist whatsoever! They replace actual social policy-making with "woke" concepts, which is useless lip service to social ideals. So for me, coming from interviews on certain TV and radio channels of various European countries, and expecting interviewers to ask the hard questions, I tune into NPR, and it's just a gentle stream of centrist, or left-of-center warbling. Warbling being the operative word. There is no fight. NPR could broaden its listener base if it could actually make their interviewees squirm a little more, and come at them from all sides of the political spectrum.

Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

What?! Do you mean that Michael Barbaro (and his excessive use of dramatic pauses) isn’t conservative enough for you?!

/s

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone on NPR have weird names I love it.

I know! I think it’s part of their application process. Audie is her given name.

I love her whole story, from growing up outside Boston, to UMass, through to NPR. I can’t wait to see what she does next.

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone on NPR have weird names I love it.

My kids say this all of the time.

They have “traditional Anglo” names and we joke they can never work for NPR, but grew up listening to it.

When I toured the studio (a couple of years back) the worker bees ALL looked like college interns. I don't mean 30 years old, I mean a 25 year old would have been senior.

I wonder if they are so keen on getting young viewers that they are pushing out the old guard? Some of WAMU's Saturday programming changes a few years ago were awful!

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what's going on, but it sounds like she's been at NPR for over 20 years. Maybe she needs a new challenge? Or maybe it's NPR? Not sure I understand Ari Shapiro's "it's a crisis" comment when AC was there for so many years. Seems like she would want to explore something new, but I could be wrong.

I am OP - and I don't think it's normal for someone in her sort of position to make an abrupt announcement on Twitter that she's leaving in a week. That sounds like an "I don't want to deal with this sh*t anymore" sort of move. Someone who's been there as long as she has been would usually - I think - get, like, a month's worth of goodbyes, retrospectives, best ofs, all that. This sounds like a "see ya when I see ya" sort of move - which must have been prompted by something, I think.

I disagree. No one announces they’re leaving a month out.

Plenty of people do. Rachel Maddow announced she was leaving six months in advance. Brian Williams announced in November and his last show was in December.

Typically radio and news personalities are giving poignant sign-off shows to say goodbye to their audiences on-air and its planned weeks in advance.

Even Ann Currie who was pushed out and fired - got to cry on air when it was her last show.

So weird.

In my experience (which includes many years in media), some enjoy the big fuss, others would rather avoid it.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

Disagree. It's exactly what it's been my whole life. As close to neutral as we have in this country.


In terms of inside scuttlebutt...I have none. But...someone I talk to a lot who works at NPR and who fits into some of the categories discussed has done some general eye rolling to me lately about office culture there. This is someone in management who's been there a long time. It does seem like morale is, shall we say, not high.

This show has 1 hour a day on WAMU 4 days a week, https://wamu.org/show/the-takeaway Can you read those show descriptions and say they sounds anything other than far left? Is there anything similarly far right that balances it? The morning and evening drives are more neutral, but NPR as a whole is not.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what's going on, but it sounds like she's been at NPR for over 20 years. Maybe she needs a new challenge? Or maybe it's NPR? Not sure I understand Ari Shapiro's "it's a crisis" comment when AC was there for so many years. Seems like she would want to explore something new, but I could be wrong.

I am OP - and I don't think it's normal for someone in her sort of position to make an abrupt announcement on Twitter that she's leaving in a week. That sounds like an "I don't want to deal with this sh*t anymore" sort of move. Someone who's been there as long as she has been would usually - I think - get, like, a month's worth of goodbyes, retrospectives, best ofs, all that. This sounds like a "see ya when I see ya" sort of move - which must have been prompted by something, I think.

I disagree. No one announces they’re leaving a month out.

Plenty of people do. Rachel Maddow announced she was leaving six months in advance. Brian Williams announced in November and his last show was in December.

Typically radio and news personalities are giving poignant sign-off shows to say goodbye to their audiences on-air and its planned weeks in advance.

Even Ann Currie who was pushed out and fired - got to cry on air when it was her last show.

So weird.

I'm OP - and yeah exactly. She's not someone interviewing for a new job to be, like, project manager at a different defense contractor and doesn't want to tip her hand. She's a public personality who listeners have a longstanding relationship with.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what's going on, but it sounds like she's been at NPR for over 20 years. Maybe she needs a new challenge? Or maybe it's NPR? Not sure I understand Ari Shapiro's "it's a crisis" comment when AC was there for so many years. Seems like she would want to explore something new, but I could be wrong.

I am OP - and I don't think it's normal for someone in her sort of position to make an abrupt announcement on Twitter that she's leaving in a week. That sounds like an "I don't want to deal with this sh*t anymore" sort of move. Someone who's been there as long as she has been would usually - I think - get, like, a month's worth of goodbyes, retrospectives, best ofs, all that. This sounds like a "see ya when I see ya" sort of move - which must have been prompted by something, I think.

I disagree. No one announces they’re leaving a month out.

Plenty of people do. Rachel Maddow announced she was leaving six months in advance. Brian Williams announced in November and his last show was in December.

Typically radio and news personalities are giving poignant sign-off shows to say goodbye to their audiences on-air and its planned weeks in advance.

Even Ann Currie who was pushed out and fired - got to cry on air when it was her last show.

So weird.

Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

Disagree. It's exactly what it's been my whole life. As close to neutral as we have in this country.


In terms of inside scuttlebutt...I have none. But...someone I talk to a lot who works at NPR and who fits into some of the categories discussed has done some general eye rolling to me lately about office culture there. This is someone in management who's been there a long time. It does seem like morale is, shall we say, not high.

I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.