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How NPR lost America's trust

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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
    wrote on last edited by George K
    #66

    The editors at National Review:

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/defund-npr/

    "If NPR wants to run a journalist enterprise that is dedicated to advancing progressive ideology, it should do so with income from sponsorships, donations, subscriptions, or other avenues — just like every other media organization. It should not benefit from subsidies from U.S. taxpayers."

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • JollyJ Offline
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      Jolly
      wrote on last edited by Jolly
      #67

      Amen.

      Public Radio should either run right down the middle on everything or run the news straight and include entertainment shows from all significant political persuasions.

      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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      • MikM Offline
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        Mik
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        #68

        Word.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        • JollyJ Jolly

          Amen.

          Public Radio should either run right down the middle on everything or run the news straight and include entertainment shows from all significant political persuasions.

          Doctor PhibesD Offline
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          Doctor Phibes
          wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
          #69

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

          Amen.

          Public Radio should either run right down the middle on everything or run the news straight and include entertainment shows from all significant political persuasions.

          I'm not defending NPR, but even if they were unbiased, everybody would still say they were biased.

          How does one define 'the middle'? The lefties currently running NPR would probably consider me a right-winger. Some people would undoubtedly think I'm a communist, when clearly I'm a centralist with an abundance of common sense.

          I was only joking

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          • MikM Offline
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            Mik
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            #70

            I think you're a confusist. Which is not to say Confucian, just confused.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • HoraceH Offline
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              Horace
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              #71

              It helps when you realize that social/political issues are infinitely complex, and most of what we end up arguing about and taking sides over are not reasonably provable one way or the other. We each have our gut instinct and we choose talking points which support it. Those talking points are mostly true, for any given side of any given issue. If two sides of a political issue are mutually exclusive, then only one can be true, but all the talking points that support each side can still be true.

              Education is extremely important.

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              • HoraceH Horace

                It helps when you realize that social/political issues are infinitely complex, and most of what we end up arguing about and taking sides over are not reasonably provable one way or the other. We each have our gut instinct and we choose talking points which support it. Those talking points are mostly true, for any given side of any given issue. If two sides of a political issue are mutually exclusive, then only one can be true, but all the talking points that support each side can still be true.

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                Doctor Phibes
                wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
                #72

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

                If two sides of a political issue are mutually exclusive, then only one can be true

                Or both can be false (Confusious say)

                I was only joking

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                • George KG Offline
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                  George K
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #73

                  (tinfoil hat on?)

                  The 41 year old CEO of NPR:

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  • HoraceH Offline
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                    Horace
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                    #74

                    I guess my interest in conspiracy theories like this end with my realization that if she's a plant, then her handlers are as stupid as she seems to be anyway. Of what value is a conspiracy to explain the world when people self-organize based on the same principles in a free market as they do in a clandestine conspiracy?

                    Education is extremely important.

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                    • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                      Doctor Phibes
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #75

                      "Only 41 years old"

                      Only?

                      Maybe he's having a mid-life crisis and realising that people who are his age are way more successful than he is.

                      I was only joking

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                      • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                        "Only 41 years old"

                        Only?

                        Maybe he's having a mid-life crisis and realising that people who are his age are way more successful than he is.

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                        George K
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                        #76

                        @Doctor-Phibes said in How NPR lost America's trust:

                        "Only 41 years old"

                        Only?

                        Yeah,

                        I think about where I was in my career at age 41.

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        • George KG George K

                          @Doctor-Phibes said in How NPR lost America's trust:

                          "Only 41 years old"

                          Only?

                          Yeah,

                          I think about where I was in my career at age 41.

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                          Doctor Phibes
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #77

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

                          I think about where I was in my career at age 41.

                          I was in the same place I'm in now 😫

                          I was only joking

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                          • HoraceH Offline
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                            Horace
                            wrote on last edited by
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                            At 41 I had developed only a small handful of hundreds of groundbreaking theories of the human experience and the meaning of life. An embarrassingly low output compared to my current pace.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                              Aqua Letifer
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #79

                              I'm 41. And also very glad I didn't do the shit she did.

                              Please love yourself.

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                                Mik
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                                At 41 she couldn't have put a great deal of time into any one of those activities and organizations.

                                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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