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I gave up NPR for podcasts a long time ago. There is so much high quality content for different niches now. I wonder if others have made the same switch.

hanklazard 6y ago
Never got as far as their podcasts. I have given up on their news though — just feels really partisan and stale (and I’m saying that as someone who leans left)
- ehnto 6y ago
  Lots of new people entering political discussions over the past five years, it was the best drama in town. It was likely fantastic for readership, but I suspect everyone will move on now that politics will be boring again. As it should be.
  - monadic3 6y ago
    Politics ain't gonna be boring again for a while yet, though I can understand why you might push that narrative. Trump was a mere symptom of political dysfunction that includes both parties. Until our government can actually address the needs of its people we're going to continue swapping back and forth between the two parties.
    - ehnto 6y ago
      Eh, I wasn't pushing a narrative. I'm not even from America, so I have no horses in this race. It's just not comically dysfunctional anymore, and back to being real politics. The politics may be controversial still but it's hopefully just policy, not subterfuge, scandals and insurrections. I guess we'll see though!
      - chris_wot 6y ago
        In the first year it was comically dysfunctional. Then it was concerning. Then it was deeply, deeply sad to watch as an outsider. It did make me realise that some people think the U.S. has the greatest health care system in the world though. That took some time to process.
        ehnto 6y ago
        I think that's part of the problem in getting a proper health care system. Some think they will lose what they have, rather than gain quite a lot, in the switch to a modern public health care system.
      - monadic3 6y ago
        "Real politics" would involve considerably more aggressive movement from the democrats to shut out the republicans for 2022. I see the republicans gaining the house a the current trajectory, with nothing more than a one-time, means-tested, under-delivering $2000 check, let alone more aggressive policy on the horizon to address economic crisis.
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theshrike79 6y ago
Planet Money does some amazing stuff though. Buying a few barrels of oil and tracking them from ground to fuel tank and making T-shirts starting from cotton and ending up as a final product are really good journalism. Then they have the episodes where they try to sell a bunch of christmas trees, you can skip those :D What I do like about NPR stuff is that they edit their podcasts, I just can't handle a 3 hour meandering chitchat flowing in and out of different subjects.

hanklazard 6y ago

Never got as far as their podcasts. I have given up on their news though — just feels really partisan and stale (and I’m saying that as someone who leans left)

ehnto 6y ago
Lots of new people entering political discussions over the past five years, it was the best drama in town. It was likely fantastic for readership, but I suspect everyone will move on now that politics will be boring again. As it should be.
- monadic3 6y ago
  Politics ain't gonna be boring again for a while yet, though I can understand why you might push that narrative. Trump was a mere symptom of political dysfunction that includes both parties. Until our government can actually address the needs of its people we're going to continue swapping back and forth between the two parties.
  - ehnto 6y ago
    Eh, I wasn't pushing a narrative. I'm not even from America, so I have no horses in this race. It's just not comically dysfunctional anymore, and back to being real politics. The politics may be controversial still but it's hopefully just policy, not subterfuge, scandals and insurrections. I guess we'll see though!
    - chris_wot 6y ago
      In the first year it was comically dysfunctional. Then it was concerning. Then it was deeply, deeply sad to watch as an outsider. It did make me realise that some people think the U.S. has the greatest health care system in the world though. That took some time to process.
      - ehnto 6y ago
        I think that's part of the problem in getting a proper health care system. Some think they will lose what they have, rather than gain quite a lot, in the switch to a modern public health care system.
    - monadic3 6y ago
      "Real politics" would involve considerably more aggressive movement from the democrats to shut out the republicans for 2022. I see the republicans gaining the house a the current trajectory, with nothing more than a one-time, means-tested, under-delivering $2000 check, let alone more aggressive policy on the horizon to address economic crisis.
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theshrike79 6y ago

Planet Money does some amazing stuff though. Buying a few barrels of oil and tracking them from ground to fuel tank and making T-shirts starting from cotton and ending up as a final product are really good journalism. Then they have the episodes where they try to sell a bunch of christmas trees, you can skip those :D What I do like about NPR stuff is that they edit their podcasts, I just can't handle a 3 hour meandering chitchat flowing in and out of different subjects.