How NPR lost America's trust
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25 year veteran editor at NPR writes a piece for Bari Weiss' outfit:
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
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"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-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.
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I stopped listening in 2018.
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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.
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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.
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I still listen to it at times, but agree with all the above comments,
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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.
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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.
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"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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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.
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
