Caught a few minutes of NPR this afternoon

[Orrex]

They spent that time explicitly blaming Democrats for the absence of any COVID relief bill, citing Democrats' unwillingness to compromise as a principal reason for the delay. They conceded that Dems were likely holding out for something better, in the hope that they'd take the Senate and White House, but the upshot of the report was that Democrats are at fault.

Not one word about Fuckface McConnell or his years-long stonewalling of any substantive public policy, while he's busily ramming hard-right judges onto benches nationwide.


So now I sit here and wait for certain people to tell me how I'm wrong wrong wrong about NPR, and I how I didn't hear what I heard.

[Karadeniz]

1. Very disappointing... Maybe it was just the guest.

[The Genealogist]

2. Haven't listened to it since 2004

No regrets.

[jrthin]

6. Same here. nt

[msongs]

3. maybe now NPR means Not Progressive Radio nt

[Just_Vote_Dem]

4. Stopped listening to them a while back

One of their reporters used to basically gush over Trump as "the populist president" so much that I tuned out

[liberal N proud]

5. Why I dislike talk shows

It's not the media or the host in most cases, it's the guest they have and how they allow the guests to propagate their version of the story without rebuttal or fact checking.

Rare is the host that will stand up to their guest when they lie.

[kimbutgar]

7. I have a friend who was an avid listener of Npr

She said about 3 years she noticed it becoming more pro repuke and anti Democrat. She stopped listening and switched to Pacifica radio and I got her hooked on Sirius progressive and she started subscribing herself.

[llashram]

8. I gave up on NPR

when the were cheerleaders for Bush II and Cheney's destructive adventures in Iraq. Billions spent, thousands of American killed or forever maimed from that excursion. A million, by some counts, Iraqis killed. And NPR as a policy cheered them on.

[utopian]

16. Same Here

And when my local station called me to re-up my donation, I told them exactly why I would not.

[jrthin]

9. This is how I feel about NPR, if

they needed a penny to survive, I wouldn't give it to them.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I stopped listening almost four years ago

They interviewed some fucking repuke or another every fucking day during my morning commute. I could only take so much of that.

[Hoyt]

11. Best alternative when driving unless you purchase satellite radio.

Personally, I think Dems should have taken the last offer and gotten some money to unemployed before election. I understand using leverage to try to get more, but it didn’t work and people are hurting. GOPers — including trump — had compromised within less than 20% of what we originally asked for.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. "A few minutes" and you make this judgment? Was it a guest or a reporter saying this? A host?

Any discussion of these points?

I have three NPR stations here, along with Sirius' NPR channel, and they only have a few hours a day with the same programming. One of my favorite shows is Fresh Air, wherein the hostess once famously pissed off O'Reilly to where he stormed off the set. Without raising her voice.

The Moth, some TED talks, interviews with civil rights leaders and leftish politicians, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, Science Friday, BBC Overnight...

But, hey, a few minutes on a Monday afternoon gives you the whole story.

[Orrex]

14. "A few minutes" completely in line with years of listening

And yes, you were exactly the NPR apologist that the OP was thinking of.

[TreasonousBastard]

15. "NPR apologist"? Must every media outlet adhere to some strict code?

[Orrex]

17. If that's your contention, that start a discussion about it.

I've been online in some form or another since 1983; I defy you to find any instance of me calling for every media outlet to adhere to some strict code. That nonsensical fantasy you've posited sure as shit has nothing to do with the OP.

I invite you to read the OP again. And then again.

Perhaps then you'll see that the complaint is that Democrats are being blamed--as is typical for the corporate advocate NPR--for gridlock caused by McConnell and the GOP. Rather than addressing that explicit fact, you take issue with me for pointing it out.


Exactly as I predicted, of course.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. I simply asked just where that stuff came from-- is it an editorial NPR position, or...

reporting that these ideas are out there. It makes a difference.

As of yet, I have heard no proper answer to that simple question.

[LanternWaste]

23. If simple disagreement an apologist one makes...

I'd then presume someone has widened the definition of apologist so broadly it becomes meaningless.

Or that someone was merely lying in wait with a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Or both.

[ananda]

13. Fuck NPR! Boycott.

Period

[electric_blue68]

19. You should try listening on line to WNYC AM/FM

WNYC is NYC's (natch 😏 ) Public Radio that is independently owned (not by the city anymore) and supported by donations. It serves the NYC & Tri-State area

[raccoon]

21. Yeah what program? Nt

[Orrex]

22. I'll have to check to be sure.

About 16:30 on WYSU, I believe.

But it’s consistent with my overall experience of npr through the past 20 years or so.

[jalan48]

24. NPR is pablum for public consumption.

NOUN
literary
Bland or insipid intellectual fare, entertainment, etc.; pap.

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/pablum