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>… concerns that coverage is frequently presented through an ideological or idealistic prism that can alienate listeners. Speaking as a lifelong NPR listener w
by crmd 2y ago
>… concerns that coverage is frequently presented through an ideological or idealistic prism that can alienate listeners.
Speaking as a lifelong NPR listener who recently had to cut them off because of ideological exhaustion: yep!
- colechristensen 2y agoThat’s the perfect word: exhaustion. Every nth (for some small value of n) segment is on a progressive zeitgeist topic, the vast majority of them are not newsworthy, those that are are mostly unnecessarily projecting on top of a newsworthy story, and they seem designed simply to elicit an emotional response.
- WalterBright 2y agoI have liberal friends who, before this essay appeared, told me that they'd stopped listening to NPR because of its slide into advocacy rather than reporting news.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoIt's happening everywhere, people no longer can help themselves in professional situations. They must tell us what to think, rather than help (or teach us) how to think. For example, I don't remember any overt politics at high school, but ours feeds a steady diet. Entertainment is another area.
- WalterBright 2y agoIn my K-12 public school years, the propaganda was just a dab. The schools were well-meaning and at least tried to educate us. These days, though, the social engineering seems front and center.
- akaru 2y agoCare to share a specific example?
- mixmastamyk 2y agoIt’s a trap! </Ackbar>
- trothamel 2y agoThis. As someone who's probably center-right, I used to listen to NPR a lot because they'd often offer new perspectives on things. But now, they offer the same perspective, over and over and over again - and so I usually turn them off.
- crmd 2y agoI feel like a person who’s been eating only one food group for the past couple of years and has developed a scurvy-like disorder. My mind is craving thoughtful, non-partisan, deeply intellectual conservative analysis of current events. Not cult of personality American GOP pop conservatism, not the dumb-dumb outrage machine new media personalities, but rather seriously legitimate academic right wing thought leadership to expand and challenge my thinking about the world. I honestly don’t know where to find it.
- ExpectedLizard 2y agoI'm a big fan of the Dispatch. Solid center-right reporting with newsletters and podcasts. National Review is further right but still pretty good.
- read_if_gay_ 2y ago>academic there’s your problem, academia skews overwhelmingly leftist
- Pat_Murph 2y agoBeing more educated makes you more progressive... Says a lot about modern conservatisme doesnt it?
- read_if_gay_ 2y agomaybe it’s really saying something about modern education
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- ein0p 2y agoI thought it was just me. I put them on every now and then while driving, go “wtf?!”, and switch to listening to audiobooks or music again.
- datavirtue 2y agoIf you want a real WTF put on the local AM right wing talk shows. It does get worse. They straight up spew lies and dog whistle hate on repeat. I can't accuse NPR of lying.
- ein0p 2y agoI never listened to those. I used to listen to NPR pretty often while commuting. Nowadays it’s just incessant agenda forcing, 100% of the time. It’s tiresome and, I’d think, counterproductive. I used to donate as well.
- duped 2y agoGive me less 1A, and more Reveal or Snap Judgement. 1A is probably the poster child for transition from interesting content from marginalized voices that informs listeners into whatever it is today, which is circling around the drain of angry media told through a calming voice. I still think that the major national shows like Morning Edition and All Things Considered hit just like they did a decade ago - albeit one dimension of our politics is less deserving of air time of the other, and that is reflected in their coverage.
- datavirtue 2y agoI have had to turn them off numerous times because they play Trump's sound bites too much. I guess they want to exact full impartial coverage but it comes to a point where some swill just doesn't need air time. I'm totally cool with paraphrased coverage but not giving that pig a megaphone.
- nicomeemes 2y ago1A is hot garbage. The lady always interrupts guests if they stray beyond the 2-minute soundbite.
- datavirtue 2y agoSame. I still listen because, after all, it is still reporting as opposed to other outlets that are pure entertainment. But David Broncochio needs to go and they are over the top when it comes to actively promoting LGBTQ and race division. It is so bad that you have to call it propaganda and question their motives and sanity. At the end of the day these people at NPR care, and they are compassionate, but I do not find them credible on a lot of topics because they are only employing people who fit in. Economic and science issues? A joke. Horrible.
- pj_mukh 2y agoQuestion is..when are we going to see this kind of reckoning and self-analysis at Fox News?
- tim333 2y agoIt's a bit of a different category in that NPR is public funded and so has kind of an obligation to represent the public. Fox is owned by the Murdochs and so it's a bit down to them. At least they fired Tucker.
- johnp314 2y agoYeah, or the Wash Post or NYT or MSNBC. As for Fox, listen to the Howard Kurtz show on Sunday mornings, he provides a nice, dare I say "fair and balanced", analysis of media coverage of news stories from the previous week.
- w0de0 2y agoSelf-awareness - let alone analysis! - is not a part of their or their viewership’s culture. May as well ask when Donald Trump will next reflect on an emotional state not his own.
- WoohDang 2y agoAs a long time NPR listener who cut them off in 2020 because of a change in my worldview, I do think NPR misses facts because of ideological bias but I take this position from a far Left stance. I broadly label myself as an Anarcho-communist and think that NPR, and other more liberal or progressive sources, largely serve the biases of existing institutional structures - that both conservatives and liberals belong to - rather than challenge them with journalistic integrity founded in expansive coverage of factual narratives. The tendency in NPR's coverage of the Palestinian genocide, the ongoing COVID pandemic, and the climate and ecological emergency are demonstrative of their systemic bias.
- snapcaster 2y agoYeah it's state controlled media, why would you (especially an anarchist) expect it to ever go against any core state narratives?
- WoohDang 2y agoI don't expect it to but that doesn't mean I can't criticise its tendencies when the opportunity arises.
- craig_s_bell 2y agoI gave up NPR a few years ago, after four decades of frequent listening. It has become more difficult to recognize the attributes which made it so useful and insightful, for so long. Once in a while, they run something which reinforces my opinion that they've strayed into the weeds. A recent example: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197955833 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197955833 LUSE: I talked to other professors in preparation for this conversation, and something that came up was, like, it's seen by many as a very extreme form of nonviolent direct action. WOODLY: Yes. I mean, it is the most extreme form of nonviolent direct action because self-immolation is not meant to hurt others. It's not meant to destroy property. It's really meant to use one's own life to make a statement. It's also on a spectrum - right? - like, you know, sort of on a spectrum from, for example, hunger strike. Some people do things like nail parts of their bodies to buildings. And then sort of self-immolation is, like, on that spectrum of the most extreme kinds of nonviolent direct action.