How NPR lost America's trust

[George K]

Also, Berliner seems to think that this started with the election of Trump.

Juan Williams, who was fired in 2010 disagrees.

[Horace]

@George-K said in How NPR lost America's trust:

Also, Berliner seems to think that this started with the election of Trump.

Juan Williams, who was fired in 2010 disagrees.

He was aligned with the bias until then. I guess everybody has their limit. But I think the tribal culture wars started using jet fuel at that point, what with all the moral obligation so many TDS sufferers had to do everything in their power to go to war with Maga.

[Mik]

My BIL sent me this today. I was going to post it.

I still listen to NPR, but with a strong filter like never before.

[Aqua Letifer]

I stopped listening in 2018.

[LuFins Dad]

There were a few programs that I listened to up and until 2012, but the they left behind “slight tilt to the left” in 2000.

[Doctor Phibes]

I used to listen to it every day on my way to work, but I mostly stopped in about 2016 as I got so sick of the smugness and bias. I really didn't feel the need to be condescended to by some 25 year old valley girl with a degree in media studies.

I haven't listened to it at all since I got a car with Carplay in 2020.

[taiwan_girl]

I still listen to it at times, but agree with all the above comments,

[kluurs]

I listened to him on Bari's White's podcast. He seems to feel there was a day when there was more objectivity. If anything, I don't think I can recall those days. Back in the 80s, it felt like there was wall-to-wall coverage of Nicaragua to the point of absurdity. Similarly, the bias was much heavier handed toward Israel - an Israeli child who was injured would be covered more thoroughly than a kidnapping or murder in the US. Times change and perhaps the biases, but it is still pretty prevalent. I do listen when trapped in the car - This American Life, Wait Wait - Don't Tell Me, Science Friday, and occasionally Fresh Air if the guest is right can engage. Oh yeah, Kai Ryssdal's MarketPlace is worth a listen.

[Horace]

I stopped listening to radio when my iPhone became permanently attached to my ears when driving. Since then, there's been no Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and no Terri Gross, but that's not because they don't still have a place in my heart. I associate my last NPR days with my commute to my office job 15 years ago, and missing the rest of the show after I arrive.

[George K]

@kluurs said in How NPR lost America's trust:

Bari's White's

Bari Weiss...

Or Barry White?

[Doctor Phibes]

The other thing I got really sick of was the interminable breaks where they spent 5 minutes telling us how awesome they are and how their journalism was so groundbreakingly wonderful and commercial free (in the middle of what is clearly a commercial for themselves).

If they were that great, they wouldn't need to go on about it so much.

[Renauda]

I could listen to NPR on satellite radio, but I don’t. Probably will never will.

[kluurs]

@George-K

Haha!

[George K]

The new CEO at NPR.

Of course, it's totally possible that she's moderated her views in the last 4 years, isn't it?

[Mik]

Um…no.

[George K]

@Mik said in How NPR lost America's trust:

Um…no.

[George K]

LOL...

[Horace]

800k per year is a lot. But the word "millionaire" should be on its last legs as a sign of wealth.

[Doctor Phibes]

800K is only a lot when it's somebody I don't like earning it.

I dislike Max Verstappen a lot more (basically because he's quite aggravating, foreign, and very talented), and he earns over 50 million a year.

[Axtremus]

I don't listen to radio much to begin with, and I listen to radio even less as I spend less time in the car. Still, of all the radio stations out there, I continue to prefer NPR for when I do listen to radio.