How NPR lost America's trust
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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.
@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.
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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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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.
@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)
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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?
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"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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"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.
@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 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.
@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
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I'm 41. And also very glad I didn't do the shit she did.
