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The funny thing is that NPR's listenership is extremely white. National Review showed a while back that 90% of listeners are white. More recent numbers estima
by nostromo 3y ago
The funny thing is that NPR's listenership is extremely white. National Review showed a while back that 90% of listeners are white. More recent numbers estimate it's around 80%.
Believe it or not, Fox News' viewership is much more diverse than NPR's. NPR fails dramatically by the standards of diversity that they hold everyone else to. It makes sense that they now cater exclusively to self-hating white people, since that's the only market they have left after years of declines in programming quality.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoThey have to cater to the group of people that would willingly spend $50 on a tote bag with their logo on it.
- dingnuts 3y agoThis isn't surprising and doesn't contradict the parent at all. The most obnoxiously nouveau-racist people are predominantly white, like Robin DiAngelo Like, seriously, do you think Latin people came up with the term "Latinx"? This strain of self-hating progressivism has been predominantly white for-ev-er
- cyanydeez 3y agoBelieve it or not, they're losing viewers because of technology and consumption patterns. Programming is still available in podcasts and elsewhere.