Twitter pisses off NPR
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I used to listen to NPR when I had to drive to work. Honestly, I enjoyed it overall. It was a refreshing way to learn about news and some deep-dives into topics. It wasn't overwhelmingly liberal and in general they'd give the "5 Ws" of a story (who, what, where, when, why) with maybe a bit more on the WHY end, which was good. Anyway, doesn't matter now... I work at home and look at snow melting all day (and birds, too). It helps to be unplugged a bit from news, in general, I have found. Humans were not meant to consume world-wide news non-stop, IMO. I've gone so far as to say I don't really have a need to know about 99% of the news. School shooting? Molestation scandal? Chicago crime? None of it affects me. Ok, weird rant over.
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I used to listen to NPR when I had to drive to work. Honestly, I enjoyed it overall. It was a refreshing way to learn about news and some deep-dives into topics. It wasn't overwhelmingly liberal and in general they'd give the "5 Ws" of a story (who, what, where, when, why) with maybe a bit more on the WHY end, which was good. Anyway, doesn't matter now... I work at home and look at snow melting all day (and birds, too). It helps to be unplugged a bit from news, in general, I have found. Humans were not meant to consume world-wide news non-stop, IMO. I've gone so far as to say I don't really have a need to know about 99% of the news. School shooting? Molestation scandal? Chicago crime? None of it affects me. Ok, weird rant over.
@89th said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
I used to listen to NPR when I had to drive to work. Honestly, I enjoyed it overall. It was a refreshing way to learn about news and some deep-dives into topics. It wasn't overwhelmingly liberal and in general they'd give the "5 Ws" of a story (who, what, where, when, why) with maybe a bit more on the WHY end, which was good. Anyway, doesn't matter now... I work at home and look at snow melting all day (and birds, too). It helps to be unplugged a bit from news, in general, I have found. Humans were not meant to consume world-wide news non-stop, IMO. I've gone so far as to say I don't really have a need to know about 99% of the news. School shooting? Molestation scandal? Chicago crime? None of it affects me. Ok, weird rant over.
It seems like it's got considerably more one-sided over the last 10-15 years. I used to listen to it on the drive to work, but I gave up a few years back. The fact that I can now get BBC radio comedy might also have had something to do with it.
Or maybe I'm just getting old.
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Tucker weighs in...
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@Jolly said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
A nice litany of all the things wrong with NPR. Doesn't really address Musk's tweet other than to (correctly) identify NPR as a
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I guess now the label has been changed to "government funded media".
Meanwhile, Tesla has received USD$2.5 billion in government subsidies. Should they should be labeled "government funded auto company"? LOL
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find other ways to find our work
Fucking really?
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The BBC has also complained about the state funded description, however Musk complimented them on the quality of their reporting, which might soften the pill a little.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65226481
Calling the BBC state-funded isn't really accurate, as the article explains, however they're not primarily a commercial organisation.
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Seen on the RWEC:
"The platform isn’t undermining NPR’s credibility. They do a fine job of that themselves. If they wanted to demonstrate independence, they could simply refuse to take federal subsidies, especially since NPR keeps insisting that it’s only “less than 1%” of their operating budget. And maybe they could start building credibility by reporting on stories rather than burying them."
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CBC is a decent TV and radio news source. Like the BBC in Britain, it is funded by tax dollars. No dispute there. It also has an admitted centre left bias in its reporting. It does not however kow-tow to the ruling government or any particular political party whether federal or provincial. Its public affairs reporting on national matters is miles ahead of its privately owned competitors - CTV and Global.
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
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CBC is a decent TV and radio news source. Like the BBC in Britain, it is funded by tax dollars. No dispute there. It also has an admitted centre left bias in its reporting. It does not however kow-tow to the ruling government or any particular political party whether federal or provincial. Its public affairs reporting on national matters is miles ahead of its privately owned competitors - CTV and Global.
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
@Renauda said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
I have not done that. However, for the CBC to be offended by...the truth about where their funding comes from is ridiculous. In fact, one might stretch it a bit and say dishonest - like the graph on their website.
And that sneaky little tilde confirms the fact that they want to deceive.
Here's what an accurate graph looks like.
I don't dispute the accuracy of their reporting, however, the hissy fit that CBC is having ("I'm taking my ball and going home because you hurt my feelings by telling the truth.") is pathetic and unbecoming to a "serious" news organization.
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@Renauda said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
I have not done that. However, for the CBC to be offended by...the truth about where their funding comes from is ridiculous. In fact, one might stretch it a bit and say dishonest - like the graph on their website.
And that sneaky little tilde confirms the fact that they want to deceive.
Here's what an accurate graph looks like.
I don't dispute the accuracy of their reporting, however, the hissy fit that CBC is having ("I'm taking my ball and going home because you hurt my feelings by telling the truth.") is pathetic and unbecoming to a "serious" news organization.
@George-K said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
@Renauda said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
I have not done that.
But Twitter sort of is. And it’s not hard to see who the main beneficiaries of that are.
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@Renauda said in Twitter pisses off NPR:
To place it in the same league as state owned and controlled media as in Russia and China is both absurd and ridiculous.
I have not done that. However, for the CBC to be offended by...the truth about where their funding comes from is ridiculous. In fact, one might stretch it a bit and say dishonest - like the graph on their website.
And that sneaky little tilde confirms the fact that they want to deceive.
Here's what an accurate graph looks like.
I don't dispute the accuracy of their reporting, however, the hissy fit that CBC is having ("I'm taking my ball and going home because you hurt my feelings by telling the truth.") is pathetic and unbecoming to a "serious" news organization.
It’s government funded in a similar, although not identical, way the BBC is government funded. Twitter for some reason gives the BBC a pass on the issue. Why is that?
As for the clip of Trudeau and what he says about Poilievre and the Federal Tories….Trudeau is right. The Conservatives are hell bent on shutting down the CBC and all its affiliates. I oppose this Tory policy which really only panders to a small minority of western anglophone Canadians who, for the most part, reside in rural Alberta and Saskatchewan and continue to believe that the metric system is a Bonapartist plot to retake Canada from the Hudson’s Bay Company.
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So, how is a government subsidy different? Because a subsidy is not supposed to be "on going" but is more of a one time thing?
Or, is a subsidy also government funding but under a different name?
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