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Post by millring on Apr 10, 2024 4:20:35 GMT -5
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Post by John B on Apr 10, 2024 7:27:26 GMT -5
John, it's not a biased source if it aligns with my thoughts/beliefs.
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Apr 10, 2024 7:41:32 GMT -5
Post by Marshall on Apr 10, 2024 7:41:32 GMT -5
I don't want to subscribe. So I can't read it.
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Apr 10, 2024 7:46:57 GMT -5
Post by John B on Apr 10, 2024 7:46:57 GMT -5
I don't want to subscribe. So I can't read it. When you get the "subscribe" pop-up, just hit "Maybe Later" and you go right to the article.
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Apr 10, 2024 7:47:15 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 10, 2024 7:47:15 GMT -5
I don't want to subscribe. So I can't read it. I don't subscribe. Didn't stop me.
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Apr 10, 2024 8:05:21 GMT -5
Post by Marshall on Apr 10, 2024 8:05:21 GMT -5
Is that like putting a speaker under your pillow?
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Apr 10, 2024 8:07:07 GMT -5
Post by Marshall on Apr 10, 2024 8:07:07 GMT -5
I have noticed a leftward movement in NPR coverage over the years. I still listen when driving. But I'll turn it off if I don't like the angle they're pitching.
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Apr 10, 2024 10:49:28 GMT -5
Post by Shannon on Apr 10, 2024 10:49:28 GMT -5
That is quite the indictment of NPR. I quit listening to them quite some time ago when I noticed many of the things the essayist described.
I used to consider them somewhat left-leaning, but fair. I now consider them to be purveyors of viewpoints. I have no need of that.
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Apr 10, 2024 11:24:51 GMT -5
Post by howard lee on Apr 10, 2024 11:24:51 GMT -5
There is no one left. Or right.
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Apr 10, 2024 11:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by coachdoc on Apr 10, 2024 11:39:21 GMT -5
The local NPR station has a wonderful folk music show on Sunday evenings, though I listen seldom anymore. I’m becoming less a music fan than even a few years ago. I pick up my guitar perhaps twice most days. My wife plays CDs much more often than I.
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Apr 10, 2024 11:43:06 GMT -5
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Post by Russell Letson on Apr 10, 2024 11:43:06 GMT -5
I still listen to NPR, along with BBC, and subscribe to the WaPo, NYT, New Yorker, and Atlantic, and follow the likes of Reuters and Forbes. I like the WSJ (outside of their op-ed page) and the Guardian. I'm leery of sources like The Free Press for reasons clearly visible in the comment thread to Berliner's essay.
And I have no reason to question Berliner's account--I'm thoroughly familiar with the guilt-and-shame response* that is the lefty version of the anger-and-resentment response that is characteristic of the righty end of our culture. The double-whammy of Trump's election and the George Floyd murder reinforced the liberal-guilt syndrome (which has annoyed me for most of my adult life) and sent much of the "left" into a tizzy of overcompensation, especially in those parts of the culture that were already "liberal." I have limited patience with identity-driven policies, even though I sympathize with people who have had to put up with bigotry and condescension. (No, not conservatives--they've been whining all the way to the bank and the Federalist Society for years.)
So I'll buy Berliner's description of an insufferably oversensitive politico-moral climate at NPR--but I'll also observe that the right was bitching about NPR and the MSM and the lefty academy long before this current lefty moral panic.
* Related to the examination-of-conscience practice that reinforces the Catholic Church's psychological control machineries.
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Post by Shannon on Apr 10, 2024 11:43:40 GMT -5
For the record, not that it matters, my feeling toward NPR can be applied to Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and all the major networks' news.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Apr 10, 2024 12:11:44 GMT -5
Interesting and thought provoking article. I used to listen to NPR, morning and night, for over thirty years. I don’t remember when I stopped, years ago. Around the time I got Sirius radio and found the Gratefull Dead channel maybe. But I still go to the NPR website, and NBC for my news. I look at this story and can’t help but think this is a result of the severe polerazation of political views. And I don’t think that’s gonna change anytime soon.
Mike
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Apr 10, 2024 12:13:44 GMT -5
Post by Cosmic Wonder on Apr 10, 2024 12:13:44 GMT -5
For the record, not that it matters, my feeling toward NPR can be applied to Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and all the major networks' news. So if no one can be trusted, where does one go for news? Mike
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Post by Cornflake on Apr 10, 2024 12:14:10 GMT -5
I can't stand Mary Louise Kelly, who feels everything so much more than other people do.
The stories are very predictable. This group has been treated unfairly because of its nationality, race, religion, ethnicity or fill in the blank.
It doesn't take me more than a few minutes with NPR to switch to the local classical station.
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Post by Marshall on Apr 10, 2024 12:37:10 GMT -5
For the record, not that it matters, my feeling toward NPR can be applied to Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and all the major networks' news. So if no one can be trusted, where does one go for news? Mike The Soundhole !
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Apr 10, 2024 13:17:11 GMT -5
Post by Cosmic Wonder on Apr 10, 2024 13:17:11 GMT -5
“The Soundhole”
A swing and a miss.
Mike
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Apr 10, 2024 13:38:36 GMT -5
Post by david on Apr 10, 2024 13:38:36 GMT -5
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Apr 10, 2024 13:39:12 GMT -5
Post by Marshall on Apr 10, 2024 13:39:12 GMT -5
Interesting and thought provoking article. I used to listen to NPR, morning and night, for over thirty years. I don’t remember when I stopped, years ago. Around the time I got Sirius radio and found the Gratefull Dead channel maybe. But I still go to the NPR website, and NBC for my news. I look at this story and can’t help but think this is a result of the severe polerazation of political views. And I don’t think that’s gonna change anytime soon. Mike For decades I drove downtown for work and home in the evening. Listened to Morning Edition, and All THings Considered just about very work day. Bwob Edwards. Now days I drive here and there usually in the middle of the day. And their mid-day programs are mostly chick related. And over touchy-feely. But there aren't many alternatives. So many commercials on commercial stations. Never got satellite radio. Too cheap. (Cheep, cheep ?). Mary Louise Kelly plays guitar But wouldn't you know it'd be a politically correct Taylor.
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Post by Marshall on Apr 10, 2024 13:43:43 GMT -5
She uses thumb picks, Doc.
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