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I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.
The Free Press ^ | April 9, 2024 | Uri Berliner

Posted on 04/09/2024 9:04:43 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 04/09/2024 9:04:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

“Uri BERLINER”

Sounds like reason number one to not trust NPR.


2 posted on 04/09/2024 9:05:51 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: Red Badger

So, basically, NPR was the first version of Tik Toke with influencers to tell the ignorant audience how and what to think and what to say. Moronic Tik Tokers.


3 posted on 04/09/2024 9:07:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: BobL

“Ich bin ein Berliner”..............I am a Jelly Donut!...............


4 posted on 04/09/2024 9:09:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
Your first mistake was to ridicule John Philip Sousa.

Second mistake: Feminism.

5 posted on 04/09/2024 9:10:04 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.

Completely delusional. NPR has been government-funded left-wing propaganda since I was a teenager, and my teen years are a long way back in the rear view mirror.
6 posted on 04/09/2024 9:10:48 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Red Badger

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4230011/posts

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7 posted on 04/09/2024 9:10:59 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Red Badger

State run media is never trustworthy.


8 posted on 04/09/2024 9:11:00 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Red Badger

“If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way. But it hasn’t.”

I actually AGREE with that. Listened heavily decades ago and they would often run stories that were favorable to our side, meaning unbiased, such as reporting on the Neocon carpet bombing of Serbian civilian targets, or how it was next to impossible to verify Clinton Administration claims against the Serbs in the early conflicts of post-Communist Yugoslavia.

But the Democrats now see no need to put up with reporting that differs, in any way, from their party-line, so that’s it for NPR, as far as I’m concerned.


9 posted on 04/09/2024 9:12:04 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Indeed.


10 posted on 04/09/2024 9:13:25 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger

NPR was the firt UniParty mouth organ.

It’s redundant now that media consolidation has reached its zenith

The only rational decision about NPR is “when does it get defunded and shut down?”


11 posted on 04/09/2024 9:13:36 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Just ask China 🇨🇳, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany 🇩🇪.


12 posted on 04/09/2024 9:14:12 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger

I’ll read the article in a little bit, but I lived in Houston when NPR first got started (I think around 1965), at first we thought it was great getting a 4th channel even though it was mysterious about the government creating one (the democrats controlled everything at the time), it wasn’t but a few years before we started seeing it as liberal and then hard core left.

I would never have let my kid watch sesame Street and such, never.


13 posted on 04/09/2024 9:14:17 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated ...

... and that is why it take you three pages of bloviation to report what could be reported in two sentences.

14 posted on 04/09/2024 9:15:03 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.

But it hasn’t.

Bull.

I’m sixty five and PBS has been full of crap for all of that time. That they managed to deal in stuff other than politics that people liked is immaterial. People who would take govt funding to report are fundamentally compromised.


15 posted on 04/09/2024 9:15:20 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: mo

There is no need for a ‘NPR’ or a ‘PBS’.

The radio and TV dials are full of every ideological and political stripe known to man...................


16 posted on 04/09/2024 9:16:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.

Wow. Forest. Trees. This person can’t see the one for the other. Trump was neither belligerent nor truth impaired.


17 posted on 04/09/2024 9:18:17 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Red Badger

NPR, you didn’t “lose” our trust, you spit on it, stamped it, and shoved it to the gutter. You are now nothing but worthless collection of would-be journalists, laughed at by anyone with even a trace of common sense.


18 posted on 04/09/2024 9:18:28 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
N C P I R A
19 posted on 04/09/2024 9:19:03 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BobL

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” - William F. Buckley, Jr


20 posted on 04/09/2024 9:19:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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