Anonymous wrote:NPR used to be my favorite - I'd listen to it all day. Now it's just endless woke grievance airing and almost no actual news. I can't stand it, maybe she feels the same.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Maybe they can find another Jenn White. She is mostly balanced compared to that nitwit, Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson was MUCH better!

Anonymous wrote:Seems like she left for a major step-up - on-camera anchor AND head of of her own podcast. Wow.

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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.

Maybe they can find another Jenn White. She is mostly balanced compared to that nitwit, Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson was MUCH better!

Anonymous wrote:She comments on it more in this thread

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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 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.

This is OP - and I agree ^. Whenever I listen to the BBC it's so clear that those interviews are more - this isn't quite the right word - combative. The interviewers challenge the subjects a lot more than American interviewers do. It would be interesting to see if the BBC model could ever work here - I don't know. Seems like our hosts let sources speak, and listeners to make of it what they will, a lot more.

I firmly agree, too, that NPR is far from a "leftist" organization. Arguably the podcasts are more so, but the on-air shows? No way.

I like NPR and WAMU and more balanced than most mainstream stations.
And, I wonder how BBC style would work in US.
Too often lately balanced means X minutes to Party Y’s representative spewing talking points politely challenged.