“Uri BERLINER”
Sounds like reason number one to not trust NPR.
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.
Second mistake: Feminism.
State run media is never trustworthy.
“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.
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?”
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.
... and that is why it take you three pages of bloviation to report what could be reported in two sentences.
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.
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.
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.
You want to hear something slightly amusing?
The other day I was reading a book from the mid-90s. The author was liberal leaning but still was able to weave a good yarn so it was entertaining. The plot was about Iraq, Saddam and his use of chemical weapons with the worry that he was getting nukes.
This was while Bush was governor of Texas.
Perhaps there is a reason libraries are getting rid of all books written before 2017.
Sorry, but I have listened to NPR for more than 30 years now, this statement is an absolute lie:
“In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.
If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.
But it hasn’t.”
Sorry sir, but it ALWAYS has been leftist drivel when it has come to its news reporting and editorial, period. One of the reasons I began to listening to NPR was because I got to see what the other side was saying.. NEVER EVER was their reporting or editorializing “middle of the road”, not EVER.
I will agree their leftward slant has gotten worse and worse over the years, every year it was worse than the year before, this authors belief that the end started with Trump is delusional. I will agree that any attempt to claim validity died completely during the Trump Years, but the credibility outside the leftists who enjoyed having their views reinforced, was tenuous at best, even back during the Clinton Years.
NPR is basically left wing pomposity paid for by your tax dollars, at least anything in their news and opinion devisions, and has been for no less than 3 decades.
NPR——We Are Smater than YOU!
They Always had that snarky Attitude.
Monotone, self-righteous presenters are only part of it.
You never had any trust with me.
You’ve always been into weird left-wing stuff.
It takes courage for someone in her position to do so.
She should be applauded and encouraged.
Too bad you haven’t also lost America’s funding. NPR should be cut loose in the name of equity.