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I listened to NPR every day for 20 years, but around about 2006 they took on a clear bias in their reporting. Public Radio should be unbiased, nonpartisan, and
by Overtonwindow 4y ago
I listened to NPR every day for 20 years, but around about 2006 they took on a clear bias in their reporting. Public Radio should be unbiased, nonpartisan, and provide programming enrichment for everyone. For me, it didn't matter who the bias was against, it was just the fact that this was supposed to be publicly funded programming, and I could no longer trust it's objectivity. Terri Gross and the whole lot abdicated their responsibility to be neutral.
- tomrod 4y agoWhat news sources and content, if any, do you follow instead? Personally, I started listening to NPR in 2007, and have consistently found them on point, unbiased, and including programming that enriches all. I tried to listen to talk radio (AM, some FM local) before that point and was decidedly turned off to most, if not all, of it (admittedly, I do not listen to every show).
- Overtonwindow 4y agoWall Street Journal, financial times, the economist, and Hckrnews :-)
- majormajor 4y agoSo is it that you think you can trust the objectivity, or just that they're private entities? Purely a coincidence that some of those have biases in the opposite direction as NPR?
- pxmpxm 4y agoWSJ and FT/Economics sort of cancel each out on the bias in my experience. FT in particular is fairly left leaning on the american political spectrum.
- Overtonwindow 4y agoOpposite direction of NPR? So you do agree that NPR has a bias ?
- tomrod 4y agoIf one applies your approach, a superior parsing is that they were noting parent comments claims of NPR's bias towards liberal, democratic values, rather than making a slight or firm argument outright.
- timr 4y agoI've been listening to Breaking Points with Krystal and Sagar a lot lately. Still not sure I "recommend" them, but they have solid representation on both sides of the political spectrum, and their takes are unique and usually interesting. They do overwhelm my ears, however, and I can't often make it through a full episode in one sitting.
- 0xffff2 4y agoNPR is not "publicly funded programming" in any meaningful sense. The vast majority of their funding is listener donations.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago> I listened to NPR every day for 20 years Long enough, in other words, to grow quite significantly older. > Terri Gross and the whole lot abdicated their responsibility to be neutral. Gross was never a journalist, and her show never had any aspirations toward neutrality. It's an interview show at the intersection of culture, politics, art and science. Of all the people you would pick as having "abdicated their responsibility", she's probably the worst possible choice, because there never was any responsibility implied or explicit.