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PBS/NPR has skewed left in last 5 years. It used to be amazing and not partisan.

by systemvoltage 4y ago

Auracle 4y ago
PBS doesn't seem too bad from my limited exposure but NPR has more than "skewed."
- systemvoltage 4y ago
  Yeah, I urge people to just listen to 20+ year old American media, doesn't matter, left/right, it was so much more civil, courteous and intellectual. Read NewYorker magazine from 1980's. Spectacular writing, and genuine insight that people from all political spectrums can be engaged with. It makes me sad. Sometimes, I listen to old archives from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/npr-all-things-considered https://archive.org/details/npr-all-things-considered and stuff like Car Talk on NPR. It was a beautiful world. I have no trust left for NYT, WaPo or whatever right wing media is around blasting stuff on TV today. It is toxic.
Spivak 4y ago
Haha skewed, NPR has been a staple liberal stereotype since my grandpa listened to them. If you’ve noticed anything it’s that the gap between liberals and conservatives widened massively starting in the late 2000s when the Republican party started slipping so they manufactured a wedge issue out of gay marriage and when that died down trans healthcare with some opportunistic blm thrown in. And look, it worked. It paid off huge for them but at the cost of literally bifurcating the country and hollowing out moderates and independents. So now it’s much much easier to see the side they’ve always been on since the contrast has been turned up to 11. As much as I personally think the Republican party is absolutely fucking evil for the specific issues they capitalized on — because good god lower taxes, eliminating government agencies, and less powerful unions doesn’t pour gasoline on festering racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia creating a tire fire of hate and violence that will outlive me — I’m not mad at the game in abstract, Democrats play it too.

PBS/NPR has skewed left in last 5 years. It used to be amazing and not partisan.

Auracle 4y ago

PBS doesn't seem too bad from my limited exposure but NPR has more than "skewed."

systemvoltage 4y ago
Yeah, I urge people to just listen to 20+ year old American media, doesn't matter, left/right, it was so much more civil, courteous and intellectual. Read NewYorker magazine from 1980's. Spectacular writing, and genuine insight that people from all political spectrums can be engaged with. It makes me sad. Sometimes, I listen to old archives from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/npr-all-things-considered https://archive.org/details/npr-all-things-considered and stuff like Car Talk on NPR. It was a beautiful world. I have no trust left for NYT, WaPo or whatever right wing media is around blasting stuff on TV today. It is toxic.

Spivak 4y ago

Haha skewed, NPR has been a staple liberal stereotype since my grandpa listened to them. If you’ve noticed anything it’s that the gap between liberals and conservatives widened massively starting in the late 2000s when the Republican party started slipping so they manufactured a wedge issue out of gay marriage and when that died down trans healthcare with some opportunistic blm thrown in. And look, it worked. It paid off huge for them but at the cost of literally bifurcating the country and hollowing out moderates and independents. So now it’s much much easier to see the side they’ve always been on since the contrast has been turned up to 11. As much as I personally think the Republican party is absolutely fucking evil for the specific issues they capitalized on — because good god lower taxes, eliminating government agencies, and less powerful unions doesn’t pour gasoline on festering racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia creating a tire fire of hate and violence that will outlive me — I’m not mad at the game in abstract, Democrats play it too.