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I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.
The Free Press ^ | April 9, 2024 | Uri Berliner

Posted on 04/09/2024 9:04:43 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger
The colleague compared it to the Bush administration's unfounded argument that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, apparently meaning we won't get fooled again.

You want to hear something slightly amusing?

The other day I was reading a book from the mid-90s. The author was liberal leaning but still was able to weave a good yarn so it was entertaining. The plot was about Iraq, Saddam and his use of chemical weapons with the worry that he was getting nukes.

This was while Bush was governor of Texas.

Perhaps there is a reason libraries are getting rid of all books written before 2017.

21 posted on 04/09/2024 9:21:25 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Red Badger

Sorry, but I have listened to NPR for more than 30 years now, this statement is an absolute lie:

“In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.

If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.

But it hasn’t.”

Sorry sir, but it ALWAYS has been leftist drivel when it has come to its news reporting and editorial, period. One of the reasons I began to listening to NPR was because I got to see what the other side was saying.. NEVER EVER was their reporting or editorializing “middle of the road”, not EVER.

I will agree their leftward slant has gotten worse and worse over the years, every year it was worse than the year before, this authors belief that the end started with Trump is delusional. I will agree that any attempt to claim validity died completely during the Trump Years, but the credibility outside the leftists who enjoyed having their views reinforced, was tenuous at best, even back during the Clinton Years.

NPR is basically left wing pomposity paid for by your tax dollars, at least anything in their news and opinion devisions, and has been for no less than 3 decades.


22 posted on 04/09/2024 9:22:27 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Red Badger

““Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” - William F. Buckley, Jr”

A good example of how badly we get OUTSMARTED. The Leftists know FULL WELL there are other views, also called the MAJORITY VIEW, but since they control the media, they get to pick which people they want to provide the ‘other view’ - think Romney, for example. And likewise, they know FULL WELL which Democrats to NEVER let on the air (albeit, very few these days, but they do exist).


23 posted on 04/09/2024 9:25:22 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: Red Badger

NPR——We Are Smater than YOU!
They Always had that snarky Attitude.


24 posted on 04/09/2024 9:25:32 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The Chemical weapons went to Syria......................


25 posted on 04/09/2024 9:27:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
It's just so dang boring to listen to, especially since Car Talk ended.

Monotone, self-righteous presenters are only part of it.

26 posted on 04/09/2024 9:28:04 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: BobL

I doubt Senator Fetterman (D-PA) will get many interview invitations...................


27 posted on 04/09/2024 9:28:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

You never had any trust with me.

You’ve always been into weird left-wing stuff.


28 posted on 04/09/2024 9:29:10 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: BobL

I agree. I used to listen occasionally when I was on a trip in the car. NPR has always seemed biased toward the left to me, but it was occasionally at least tolerable. The last several years, though, have gone off the rails. With their treatment of Trump and the pandemic, I called it quits completely.


29 posted on 04/09/2024 9:30:13 AM PDT by Languager
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To: ansel12

OOPS

I posted about PBS, not NPR, for some reason I saw PBS.

The only thing I know about NPR is that I always saw it as just PBS on the radio, far left and somebody made sure that you could hear it everywhere, in places where you couldn’t receive regular radio.


30 posted on 04/09/2024 9:32:30 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Big Red Badger
They Always had that snarky Attitude.

The interviews were the WORST. They always featured the most extreme radicals on the topic they were talking about at the moment.

That blew their cover as "moderate" instantly.

31 posted on 04/09/2024 9:32:43 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: Red Badger
Probably.

I just find it interesting.

I am reading a lot of books written in the 90s and am finding a bunch of bread crumbs on how we got here.

Just read a Police Procedural set in NYC and they were chuckling about how the "New Mayor" thought he was going to clean up the city and how they did not want it cleaned up because all the perverts, homeless and illegals added "flavor" to the city. These were not the villains (the villains were the conservatives of course) these were the police officers.

32 posted on 04/09/2024 9:34:54 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Exactly. I listed to NPR for a couple of hours a day in my early 20’s and it galvanized me as a conservative, as I never agreed with any of their biased reporting.

This was long before 2011!


33 posted on 04/09/2024 9:35:32 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan ("Fox News? Appalling. Appalling and amateurish. So both at the same time; it's a bad combination.")
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To: TalBlack

“If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.

But it hasn’t.”

A better take is that Liberals, generally, consider themselves to be “mainstream” and “in the middle”. regardless as to how far left they are.

So, for a liberal to look back and say, “we used to be down the middle”. Is to him/ them, true. As they find it difficult to realize how far left they actually are.

So what this REALLY means is that NPR has moved SO FAR LEFT, that even your typical, of the 20 years ago mindset (e.g. Bil Clinton type liberals), thinks they have gone too far.


34 posted on 04/09/2024 9:38:16 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I was never a Liberal or Lefty, even as a young pre-teenager.

But I didn’t become openly hostile to NPR until the mid-Eighties (likely because I never listened to anything beyond Rock and Roll stations) and I still listened to Car Talk on NPR, which I enjoyed.

But somewhere along the way, I began to fiercely resent them-and the fact that taxpayer money was contributing to it.

I thought this article was a fair self-criticism. Bit it is clear that his attitude is like pissing into the wind at NPR. They aren’t going to listen, to take his advice, or to change. So I pray for their demise.


35 posted on 04/09/2024 9:38:25 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Red Badger
This woman deserves credit for pointing out the obvious.

It takes courage for someone in her position to do so.

She should be applauded and encouraged.

36 posted on 04/09/2024 9:39:12 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Red Badger

Too bad you haven’t also lost America’s funding. NPR should be cut loose in the name of equity.


37 posted on 04/09/2024 9:40:12 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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To: marktwain

It’s a guy...................I think, but don’t hold me to that................It’s NPR after all.................


38 posted on 04/09/2024 9:41:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
It’s a guy........

Thanks. Just figured it out.

39 posted on 04/09/2024 9:42:44 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Red Badger
’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.

Good Lord, that's a quad-fecta. What a stereotypical lib.

40 posted on 04/09/2024 9:42:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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