astuffedshirt_perv
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This article is getting so much traction even the NYT is getting in on the NPR dogpile
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/business/media/npr-criticism-liberal-bias.html
Apparently All Things Aren't Considered...
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Yes, and this is why I avoid CNN and Fox.
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I don't avoid anything.
Though Breitbart and Gateway Pindit employ some of the laziest writers I've ever seen.
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I am (as you know if you have paid attention to my past posts on these threads) unabashedly conservative. I make no secret about it. I am also a lifelong NPR head. I know that may seem counterintuitive to some. I have been painfully aware of NPR's extreme liberal bent ant their tendency to put fake conservative voices on to prove some imagined "objectivity" in their reporting.
But damn if their entertainment value wasn't off the charts! I grew up with Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, America's Test Kitchen, and A Way With Words. I loved Simply Folk, Higher Ground, and Old Time Radio. And The fact that I could spend Saturday Afternoon at the Met was amazing even to my young self. I wasn't so much a fan of the news programs, but I tuned in because it kept me informed of what the libs were pushing. And, yes, even the entertainment had a liberal bent, but they didn't get too overt with it all.
Then something happened. Step by step their politics crept into everything. Simply Folk started celebrating and pushing Marxist and even anti-American ideals through what they played and what they refused to play. Old TIme Radio got pulled because the America it came from wasn't "progressive" enough. Live From Here, the show that took over for PHC, was simply dropped for not being pc enough, that in spite of Chris Thile's obvious efforts at being "woke". Everything that made NPR great, an institution that both liberals and conservatives with a certain awareness and tolerance level slowly went away. What has been left is a giant shell of itself proclaiming its own greatness and "objectivity", while none of either remain.
So this article does not surprise me. What surprises me is that the insiders are finally speaking up about it.
Look, public television and radio is supposed to be PUBLIC. It isn't supposed to be supporting just one side. I wouldn't expect NPR to be a "Newsmax Radio" or an "Epoch TImes on Air" or a Christian broadcasting network. But neither should it be openly celebrating the life of Fidel Castro on air, celebrating Bastille Day, and constantly attacking conservative values and talking about what a horrible place America really is. All of these have happened, by the way.
Since this is what they have become, they really shouldn't be "Public Broadcasting" getting taxpayer dollars. Liberals would throw a fit if their dollars went to fund the local Christian station to support conservative talk programs. Why should a conservative's hard earned dollars go to support broadcasting that promotes abortion, Socialism, anti-conservative speech, and values they don't hold to or support?
So here's what I would propose:
Conservative broadcasting exists because the listeners support the advertisers or donate to the stations. They put their money where their mouth is. Let NPR and PBS do the same. They have embraced the liberal side. Fine. If you as a liberal value what they produce, support it. If you want them to send reporters into expensive places to go, pay for it. With your money. Not mine. Put your cash where you say your values are. I fully support your right to do so. And I support their right to do with that money as you and they agree on so long as they are not violating any laws and are staying within the historical boundaries of protected free speech. But don't insist that I pay for it.
Consider this a love lost letter from a former NPR fanatic.
But damn if their entertainment value wasn't off the charts! I grew up with Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, America's Test Kitchen, and A Way With Words. I loved Simply Folk, Higher Ground, and Old Time Radio. And The fact that I could spend Saturday Afternoon at the Met was amazing even to my young self. I wasn't so much a fan of the news programs, but I tuned in because it kept me informed of what the libs were pushing. And, yes, even the entertainment had a liberal bent, but they didn't get too overt with it all.
Then something happened. Step by step their politics crept into everything. Simply Folk started celebrating and pushing Marxist and even anti-American ideals through what they played and what they refused to play. Old TIme Radio got pulled because the America it came from wasn't "progressive" enough. Live From Here, the show that took over for PHC, was simply dropped for not being pc enough, that in spite of Chris Thile's obvious efforts at being "woke". Everything that made NPR great, an institution that both liberals and conservatives with a certain awareness and tolerance level slowly went away. What has been left is a giant shell of itself proclaiming its own greatness and "objectivity", while none of either remain.
So this article does not surprise me. What surprises me is that the insiders are finally speaking up about it.
Look, public television and radio is supposed to be PUBLIC. It isn't supposed to be supporting just one side. I wouldn't expect NPR to be a "Newsmax Radio" or an "Epoch TImes on Air" or a Christian broadcasting network. But neither should it be openly celebrating the life of Fidel Castro on air, celebrating Bastille Day, and constantly attacking conservative values and talking about what a horrible place America really is. All of these have happened, by the way.
Since this is what they have become, they really shouldn't be "Public Broadcasting" getting taxpayer dollars. Liberals would throw a fit if their dollars went to fund the local Christian station to support conservative talk programs. Why should a conservative's hard earned dollars go to support broadcasting that promotes abortion, Socialism, anti-conservative speech, and values they don't hold to or support?
So here's what I would propose:
Conservative broadcasting exists because the listeners support the advertisers or donate to the stations. They put their money where their mouth is. Let NPR and PBS do the same. They have embraced the liberal side. Fine. If you as a liberal value what they produce, support it. If you want them to send reporters into expensive places to go, pay for it. With your money. Not mine. Put your cash where you say your values are. I fully support your right to do so. And I support their right to do with that money as you and they agree on so long as they are not violating any laws and are staying within the historical boundaries of protected free speech. But don't insist that I pay for it.
Consider this a love lost letter from a former NPR fanatic.
