We still have NPR on in our house but it’s more background noise than anything else. Up to maybe six years ago, I used to find the reporting deeper and more thorough and now it just seems hollow-like they’re stating the obvious, there’s no substance with the reporters they have now. Sad because it was at one time great.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to listen to NPR every day during the drive to and from work, but even as a lifelong democrat it just got too left wing for me so I stopped. Not every story needs to be reported through the lens of race and/or gender/sexuality. I still consume a bunch of NPR stuff, but more of it is through podcasts like Serial, This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and such.

I feel exactly the same way.

+1. Former NPR employee here. They only cater to millennials. Gen Xer Steve Inskeep is hanging on for his professional life!

Separately, it has been comical to listen to them try to cover Facebook. (Every second sentence ‘An editorial note: Facebook is a major contributor to NPR’). Ever hear an investigative piece on McDonalds impact on Amazon rainforest? Didn’t think so after 110 million from Kroc. It’s like PBS - the Petroleum Broadcasting System. Listen to the BBC if you want solid government financed news.

Someone paid her way more snd let her write her own ticket, so she left.
URMs are in high demand everywhere, and often paid more than others.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to listen to NPR every day during the drive to and from work, but even as a lifelong democrat it just got too left wing for me so I stopped. Not every story needs to be reported through the lens of race and/or gender/sexuality. I still consume a bunch of NPR stuff, but more of it is through podcasts like Serial, This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and such.

I feel exactly the same way.

I used to listen to NPR, but I listen to the BBC now, late at night when I can't sleep.

NPR is so, so bland, so worshipful of that moron Anthony Fauci, so deferential to the Trump administration, so non-critical.

Audi Cornish was pretty good at challenging the status quo, and particularly government officials, but her sharp corners were rounded off by NPR.

I wonder where she's going. I liked her a lot, but not enough to listen to NPR every day. Too bland. And not left at all!! What are you talking about???????

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Anonymous wrote:I had a boss whose sister worked there and said it was a boys club. Also know a friend of a friend who married his intern there. Old enough to be her Dad. This was pre me too.

If the intern's initials are WJ, she broke up my neighbor's marriage. She is now stuck with an old man and my old neighborhood has a great life without the sleazy ex-DH.

OH, so the young intern tricked the older, more powerful man into leaving his wife of many years. Got it.

Apparently, there is more than one intern scandal there. The guy being referred to got the much younger intern pregnant.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to listen to NPR every day during the drive to and from work, but even as a lifelong democrat it just got too left wing for me so I stopped. Not every story needs to be reported through the lens of race and/or gender/sexuality. I still consume a bunch of NPR stuff, but more of it is through podcasts like Serial, This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and such.

I feel exactly the same way.

+1. They went off the rails and I gave up on them. Also don’t like that they don’t cover traffic anymore - like, we’re too good for that? Everyone has an app? They dumped traffic at the same time as they debuted their new slogan, we’re live/we’re local/we’re your npr station- not if you’re not covering traffic!

Just switch on the 8s. I don’t think we need two traffic stations and I prefer it this way because I’m not always in the car.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to listen to NPR every day during the drive to and from work, but even as a lifelong democrat it just got too left wing for me so I stopped. Not every story needs to be reported through the lens of race and/or gender/sexuality. I still consume a bunch of NPR stuff, but more of it is through podcasts like Serial, This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and such.

I feel exactly the same way.

+1. They went off the rails and I gave up on them. Also don’t like that they don’t cover traffic anymore - like, we’re too good for that? Everyone has an app? They dumped traffic at the same time as they debuted their new slogan, we’re live/we’re local/we’re your npr station- not if you’re not covering traffic!

Anonymous wrote:I used to listen to NPR every day during the drive to and from work, but even as a lifelong democrat it just got too left wing for me so I stopped. Not every story needs to be reported through the lens of race and/or gender/sexuality. I still consume a bunch of NPR stuff, but more of it is through podcasts like Serial, This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and such.

I feel exactly the same way.

I used to listen to NPR every day during the drive to and from work, but even as a lifelong democrat it just got too left wing for me so I stopped. Not every story needs to be reported through the lens of race and/or gender/sexuality. I still consume a bunch of NPR stuff, but more of it is through podcasts like Serial, This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and such.

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Anonymous wrote:Super toxic workplace ripe with NDAs and dirty laundry. Just look at Executive and leadership turnover. Look at female minority talent turn over.

Hmmm, I wonder if minority women are grossly underpaid compared to their less experienced and bumbling white, male counterparts.

- signed fly on a wall

With regard to the salaries…NPR pays ‘top talent’ like her all $400k plus — check the 990s. I wouldn’t call that underpaid.

That is not actually what the 990s indicate.

And if it does, they need to stop hitting me up for more money.

+1

Amen to that!

Anonymous wrote:It appears that there are a TON of issues at NPR, mostly staff being concerned about the way they cover the news, especially during the Trump admin + toxic management culture. Dig into Twitter a bit - it is all out there.

This. Check Twitter.

Anonymous wrote:I think this is worth a read. I don’t doubt there are cultural problems but this factors in too
https://mobile.twitter.com/NBCJoshua/status/1478456510955073537

Offtopic but I personally won’t miss him much

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Anonymous wrote:I had a boss whose sister worked there and said it was a boys club. Also know a friend of a friend who married his intern there. Old enough to be her Dad. This was pre me too.

If the intern's initials are WJ, she broke up my neighbor's marriage. She is now stuck with an old man and my old neighborhood has a great life without the sleazy ex-DH.

OH, so the young intern tricked the older, more powerful man into leaving his wife of many years. Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a boss whose sister worked there and said it was a boys club. Also know a friend of a friend who married his intern there. Old enough to be her Dad. This was pre me too.

If the intern's initials are WJ, she broke up my neighbor's marriage. She is now stuck with an old man and my old neighborhood has a great life without the sleazy ex-DH.

Or, you could give credit where credit is due and let the sleazy ex take responsibility for the breakup of his own marriage.