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My car radio got stuck on NPR for the past couple of weeks. It's been an education. Who pays for NPR? Mostly foundations, it seems. Some virtuous corporations...

Anyway, try listening to it sometime. One observation is that, whatever topic they take up, the queries are about 1) race, 2) climate change, and 3) Trans. For a recent example, they put some endocrinologist on to talk about female hormones. The interviewer only wanted to talk about racial differences, and how climate change effected female hormones. Interestingly, the researcher said they collected no racial data.

The people at NPR are like a vinyl record stuck in a groove.

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They are like a vinyl record stuck in a groove.
Witty comment.

Perhaps I should listen to NPR for a while. I stopped listening to NPR in the '80s, when I voted Third Party, as in none of the above. I detected a decided sneer when the NPR voice discussed Reagan's victory in 1984. As I was neutral at the time regarding Reagan versus Mondale, I wasn't on the hunt for anti-Reagan insinuations from NPR. But NPR was SO blatant about it.

#1 Gringo on 2023-09-05 15:54 (Reply)

Maybe there is a separate fuse in that Alfa for the radio, pull it and listen to the sweet engine instead. NPR is beyond horrible these days, super woke and supercilious at the same time.

#2 Ed on 2023-09-05 16:07 (Reply)

I've always been pretty conservative in my views, but also very curious. In the 1980s, I would listen to NPR while working through college. I really, really liked All Things Considered, I thought it was a cracking good presentation - stimulating, thought-provoking, and on the vanguard - often the networks would pick up a story a week or two after I heard it on NPR. Of course, even at the time I disagreed with the spin, but it was firmly in the background.

Can't do it now. They are hopelessly stuck in an echo chamber, and the lights are out - they can't tell that they're all alone. Sad, really. When you think you're out in front, leading, it pays to check behind you once in a while, to make sure you still have followers. Nothing has replaced the interesting content out there, of any political stripe. That's even sadder.

#3 Aggie on 2023-09-05 16:32 (Reply)

" Nothing has replaced the interesting content out there, of any political stripe. That's even sadder."

I disagree. The long-form podcast delivers myriad topics. Perhaps delivers is the wrong word, you have to go and find them,Ay, there's the rub.
#3 Aggie on 2023-09-05 16:32 (Reply)

#3.1 bilejones on 2023-09-06 08:15 (Reply)

National Propaganda Radio

#4 m on 2023-09-05 16:51 (Reply)

National Progressive Radio, as well.

#4.1 Chadd Newman on 2023-09-05 20:30 (Reply)

I used to listen to NPR some while driving cross country for my business. I stopped listening when they kept telling me Bill Clinton was a saint and never did anything wrong especially about his women.

#5 JC on 2023-09-05 17:00 (Reply)

Conservative guy who came late to NPR and loved it. Lived with an NPR Program Director for several years and volunteered for years, too.

Started doing a fade at thge turn of the century. Haven't listend for several years. Surprised to discover it still exists and that people still listen. Evil. To the core.

#6 larry (Link) on 2023-09-05 17:23 (Reply)

NPR has what I call negative information value. Any information you absorb from NPR will be incorrect. In a hypothetical sense, if you start from a place in which you have zero knowledge of a subject, then listen to an NPR report on it, you will have only incorrect knowledge of the topic. You were better off literally knowing nothing about it.

#7 Guest on 2023-09-05 17:29 (Reply)

Give them a BIPOC trans person who is impacted by climate change to interview and they're practically giddy. If that person also happens to be a rapper, well, they think they've struck gold.

I used to be a sustaining member of New Pravda Radio, but I stopped about 10 years ago, because it became unlistenable. 'Car Talk' and 'A Prairie Home Companion' were worth supporting, but the rest is just dreck.

#8 VT Farmer on 2023-09-05 17:37 (Reply)

I cracked up hearing a parody of Terri Gross of Fresh Air:

"So tell me, what are the best things and the worst things about serving a life sentence in solitary confinement at a supermax prison?"

#9 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-09-05 17:50 (Reply)

At one time I actually donated to NPR. The issue that made me wake up about them was immigration. I stopped listening to them. Over the years since I have turned them on for a short while, but it usually only took a half an hour before I heard them pushing an open-border agenda. However, they are very self-unaware. I remember a lovely story. They did about difficult economic times in Maine. They were interviewing a young woman who lived in a city in Maine who was basically crying because she could not find work and was forced with the decisions she may have to leave town. She had lived in all her life and her family had been there for generations. She said there was one bright hope that maybe she could get a job at the local Somalia refugee center.

#10 Robert Moffett (Link) on 2023-09-05 18:06 (Reply)

NPR did a story two, maybe three, years ago about an illegal alien making his way from the border and hoping to arrive in Dallas to work in construction.

Now, the story we've been told all these years is that migrants are just doing jobs Americans won't do. Sure, most Americans don't want to pick tomatoes in the hot sun, but construction? Landscaping? Those are generally well-paying jobs that many Americans gladly work, including my husband, who was an industrial construction electrician for many years.

Nonetheless, the 'jobs Americans won't do' trope continues, because it is useful to our ruling class.

#10.1 VT Farmer on 2023-09-06 09:41 (Reply)

A normal person couldn't get hired at NPR.

#11 OneGuy on 2023-09-05 18:11 (Reply)

My wife occasionally listens to NPR in her car, once in a while it'll be playing when I'm riding in the car. Without exception every piece I've heard for the past twelve months has been riddled with lies, exaggerations and mis-statements which I delight in pointing out to She who must be obeyed.

The Western world in divided into two classes, those who get their news from the State and Corporate Organs, and those who have a clue.

#12 bilejones on 2023-09-05 18:34 (Reply)

Too many NPR stories follow a similar template: Background noises open the story, then we hear some poor soul speaking about how some calamity has made his life miserable [sometimes being told through an interpreter] and how the international community, the UN, the US government, or taxpayers need to solve his problem.

#13 Doug on 2023-09-05 22:43 (Reply)

NPR, they've internalized the headline, "World Ends Tomorrow. Women and Children Hardest Hit!"

#14 Greg on 2023-09-06 08:13 (Reply)

NPR freaked out after Bush edged out Gore and it became increasingly, nonsensically left wing. In the 80's and 90's though it was good good for commuting as the hosts had calming voices:

plummy adjective
1. used to describe a low voice or way of speaking using long vowels, of a type thought to be typical of the English upper social class
Cambridge Dictionary

#15 CapitalistRoader on 2023-09-06 08:31 (Reply)

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