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This is a PR piece. It has no correlative relationship to reality. Source: knowing truckers, having them in my family, extended family, friends of family etc.

This is a PR piece. It has no correlative relationship to reality. Source: knowing truckers, having them in my family, extended family, friends of family etc. for 40 years. They all have XM/Sirius at this point. None listen to NPR. Why were no statistics about truckers and NPR quoted? Because they wouldn't have supported the thrust of the article.

eighthnate 9y ago
Not only that. The publication was founded by the same people who founded PBS and NPR. "whose members were leaders in founding the PBS and National Public Radio." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_(newspaper) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_(newspaper) This article is like an "article" by foxnews saying everyone is listening to foxnews talk radio. It's pretty much advertisement. And all the comments here is rather praising NPR is rather suspicious as well.
- azernik 9y ago
  The comments here praising NPR are not suspicious; they just reflect the echo chamber of rich educated coastal liberals.
- koheripbal 9y ago
  PBS (and thus NPR) federal funding might be on the chopping block with the next federal budget, so it's not surprising to see pieces trying to get out ahead of that. I grew up on NRP, and I LOVE This American Life, Garrison Keillor, and the reruns of Click and Clack, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that they have a pretty left leaning agenda. The Brian Lehrer show used the anniversary of Pearl Harbor to discuss how Trump might create Muslim concentration camps in America.
Bartweiss 9y ago
I suspect this was true a decade ago, and I suspect it's still true in some of the wilder parts of the country. I'm surprised at how often I'll be out in the mountains somewhere and find no cell signal, no satellite radio, and one lonely NPR channel coming in clear as day. But today, and in general? I don't really buy it. Truckers listen to Audible books, or XM, or a great many other things, and I'd want actual numbers to believe a majority of them listen to NPR.

eighthnate 9y ago

Not only that. The publication was founded by the same people who founded PBS and NPR. "whose members were leaders in founding the PBS and National Public Radio." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_(newspaper) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_(newspaper) This article is like an "article" by foxnews saying everyone is listening to foxnews talk radio. It's pretty much advertisement. And all the comments here is rather praising NPR is rather suspicious as well.

azernik 9y ago
The comments here praising NPR are not suspicious; they just reflect the echo chamber of rich educated coastal liberals.
koheripbal 9y ago
PBS (and thus NPR) federal funding might be on the chopping block with the next federal budget, so it's not surprising to see pieces trying to get out ahead of that. I grew up on NRP, and I LOVE This American Life, Garrison Keillor, and the reruns of Click and Clack, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that they have a pretty left leaning agenda. The Brian Lehrer show used the anniversary of Pearl Harbor to discuss how Trump might create Muslim concentration camps in America.

Bartweiss 9y ago

I suspect this was true a decade ago, and I suspect it's still true in some of the wilder parts of the country. I'm surprised at how often I'll be out in the mountains somewhere and find no cell signal, no satellite radio, and one lonely NPR channel coming in clear as day. But today, and in general? I don't really buy it. Truckers listen to Audible books, or XM, or a great many other things, and I'd want actual numbers to believe a majority of them listen to NPR.