Anonymous
04/20/2024 08:05
Subject: Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous wrote:Consider this viewpoint from a man who worked at NPR for 25 years:
https://www.allsides.com/news/2024-04-09-0723/media-bias-i-ve-been-npr-25-years-here-s-how-we-lost-america-s-trust
Do you agree with Uri Berliner’s view? Or is he wrong?
He’s right.
Anonymous
04/19/2024 13:46
Subject: Re:Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous
04/19/2024 11:56
Subject: Re:Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
DP. Disagree-it’s still useful to me. But I’m open to hearing examples if you have any.
It’s hard to give examples of why I don’t trust Wikipedia because I feel like a lot of the issues are with having information missing. I feel like the editors are very selective on information they choose to add. So whereas I used to trust Wikipedia to give a fulsome picture of a topic, I now don’t. The information that is permitted is probably accurate and usually cited, but you can’t trust that all important or relevant information is provided.
Pp here and thanks for this. I don’t really disagree, although my take is a little different. As a user not an Wikipedia editor, I’ve edited Wikipedia pages myself for topics I have a national expertise. In the past I’ve removed right-wing garbage about a topic, and added what I hope are neutral stats. Then whoever at a right wing think tank tries to put their stuff back in and I take it out again. So there’s potential political bias depending on whose edits are more recent.
Anonymous
04/19/2024 10:21
Subject: Re:Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
DP. Disagree-it’s still useful to me. But I’m open to hearing examples if you have any.
It’s hard to give examples of why I don’t trust Wikipedia because I feel like a lot of the issues are with having information missing. I feel like the editors are very selective on information they choose to add. So whereas I used to trust Wikipedia to give a fulsome picture of a topic, I now don’t. The information that is permitted is probably accurate and usually cited, but you can’t trust that all important or relevant information is provided.
the Talk page should include any debates
Anonymous
04/19/2024 10:20
Subject: Re:Has NPR lost America’s trust?
I’m truly confused about her blathering on Wikipedia. If she disagreed with the basic premise of Wikipedia, which indeed is compiling articles that are supported by record written evidence, why did she take the job? If she’s talking about specific things like encouraging more articles about a wider diversity of topics, or getting more female editors, ok fine. But why undermine the entire premise of Wikipedia? We have DCUM where everyone can just state their truth!
Anonymous
04/19/2024 10:17
Subject: Re:Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous wrote:
DP. Disagree-it’s still useful to me. But I’m open to hearing examples if you have any.
It’s hard to give examples of why I don’t trust Wikipedia because I feel like a lot of the issues are with having information missing. I feel like the editors are very selective on information they choose to add. So whereas I used to trust Wikipedia to give a fulsome picture of a topic, I now don’t. The information that is permitted is probably accurate and usually cited, but you can’t trust that all important or relevant information is provided.
Anonymous
04/19/2024 08:10
Subject: Re:Has NPR lost America’s trust?
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Anonymous
04/18/2024 22:37
Subject: Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Equity and Equity, NPR. Half your staff need to be Republicans I'm waiting.
The Republican Party is subverted controlled opposition. It’s a joke. Decent people are Conservative, but that is not the synonymous with the neocon GOP. So find Conservatives to hire, not more neocon Democrats pretending to be on the “red team.”
+1. NPR absolutely doesn't need elite MAGAs pandering to the low-info MAGA base. And that's not just because the MAGA base is never going to tune in anyway. NPR could do with a dose of real Republicans who are more about their social and economic values (even though I disagree with most of those values) and less about abortion or racism masquerading as criminal justice and immigration policy. As pp says, not more centrists pretending to be conservative.
Anonymous
04/18/2024 22:32
Subject: Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Conservatives have been trying to kill NPR for the last 40 years. This is yet another round of pearl-clutching by the crowd that thinks Fox is an actual news station. We all know of 700 million reasons why that isn't true.
No. I hate Fox News, it is a joke for the low-IQ viewer. NPR used to be wonderful and I was an enthusiastic listener. Now it's terrible woke BS. I would like the news, some analysis, and some entertaining yet smart human interest and self-improvement stories mixed in. Instead i tune in and hear something like, "abc ethnic group has been historically underrepresented in xyz setting. Let's dig into why". Relentless.
+1000. This is how I think as well.
I used to love listening to NPR. Now, it’s about very left leaning politics and it turns me off to hear victimization all of the time.
DP. I love the left leaning politics and I'm here for supporting immigrants. I'm just tired of being told I suck because I'm white (I'm female, so I guess maybe that's mitigating), or that some things should be dismissed out of hand simply because they're part of the western canon or just because some white man came up with them (see the Katherine Maher video somebody above linked to).
Anonymous
04/18/2024 22:24
Subject: Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous wrote:Equity and Equity, NPR. Half your staff need to be Republicans I'm waiting.
The Republican Party is subverted controlled opposition. It’s a joke. Decent people are Conservative, but that is not the synonymous with the neocon GOP. So find Conservatives to hire, not more neocon Democrats pretending to be on the “red team.”
Anonymous
04/18/2024 22:20
Subject: Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Conservatives have been trying to kill NPR for the last 40 years. This is yet another round of pearl-clutching by the crowd that thinks Fox is an actual news station. We all know of 700 million reasons why that isn't true.
No. I hate Fox News, it is a joke for the low-IQ viewer. NPR used to be wonderful and I was an enthusiastic listener. Now it's terrible woke BS. I would like the news, some analysis, and some entertaining yet smart human interest and self-improvement stories mixed in. Instead i tune in and hear something like, "abc ethnic group has been historically underrepresented in xyz setting. Let's dig into why". Relentless.
This is how I began feeling about NPR upwards of ten years ago. It was what you describe and also never ending migrant sob stories and white people are racist nonsense to browbeat flooding the West with migrants. All. Day. Every. Single. Day.
Anonymous
04/18/2024 20:58
Subject: Has NPR lost America’s trust?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Conservatives have been trying to kill NPR for the last 40 years. This is yet another round of pearl-clutching by the crowd that thinks Fox is an actual news station. We all know of 700 million reasons why that isn't true.
No. I hate Fox News, it is a joke for the low-IQ viewer. NPR used to be wonderful and I was an enthusiastic listener. Now it's terrible woke BS. I would like the news, some analysis, and some entertaining yet smart human interest and self-improvement stories mixed in. Instead i tune in and hear something like, "abc ethnic group has been historically underrepresented in xyz setting. Let's dig into why". Relentless.
+1000. This is how I think as well.
I used to love listening to NPR. Now, it’s about very left leaning politics and it turns me off to hear victimization all of the time.