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I don't know if that's entirely true. NPR was really suspicious of the government before 2008. Then something changed.

• mattdeboard 15y ago
  Have some data to support your cognitive bias?
  • IanDrake 15y ago
    Not sure that data is available, but I was listening to NPR news during that time. I thought they did decent job of highlighting the poor behavior of our government. Then things changed (not government behavior, which is the same if not worse). At the pinnacle of the credit crisis they started hating on the financial services sector. As if they had any idea of what credit derivative were. The "experts" they had on air seemed to have a textbook definition which would then be simplified by saying "It's basically gambling". Uhg. At some point I realized that most of their "experts" (in all their coverage) were either working for the government, the Federal Reserve, or had financial ties to the government (grant recipients, lobbyist, etc...). I stopped listening around 2010 after I found myself yelling at the radio too often. Maybe things have changed.
• pessimizer 15y ago
  The change happened earlier than 2008. It happened when funding was getting dismantled in Congress and subsequently a conservative ombudsman was appointed along with a guy to run operations that used to run Radio Free Europe. After that, it was National Petroleum Radio. Republicans largely support the things that we're objecting to here, along with Obama.
• gaius 15y ago
  Remind me what year Obama was elected?