[Rummyfan]

’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.

Good Lord, that's a quad-fecta. What a stereotypical lib.

[Yo-Yo]

Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s I'd listen to NPR's Morning Edition while getting ready for work, then listen to Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy in the afternoons.

NPR was left-leaning back then, and I listened to it to get the Left perspective on the days' news. Then I'd listen to Rush and/or G. Gordon and get a Right-leaning perspective. on those same stories.

I worked in Broadcast and I worked for 16 years at the local University-owned NPR and PBS affiliate stations until 2011. Yes, the staff were mostly Left-leaning, but you'd be surprised how many 'conservatives' like me also worked there, mostly in the technical trades.

But starting around 2009 or so, after the financial crisis of 2008 that was cooked up to get Obama elected, the purging of conservatives began, and I was a victim in 2011, getting laid off due to "budget cuts." As the Obama Administration had misstep after misstep, NPR and PBS became cheerleaders for our nation's first "President of Color" and the reporting reflected that viewpoint, and stifled any others. Not even Bill Clinton got that sort of support from NPR during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Bill's impeachment.

Today I can't even listen to NPR for five minutes without losing my temper. Today's NPR has become hard-Left ideologues who cannot tolerate any other point of view, even in the context of debate. They have long ago abandoned even the illusion of providing both sides of a story. One side is presented, and the other side is vocally dismissed as wrong, racist, sexist, homophobic, and unacceptably intolerant.

The really sad part is that the further Left NPR and PBS leaned, the lower their revenues sank, and they couldn't even take the blinkers off long enough to see the correlation.

So today, I say:

[Fury]

My favorite example of NPR going cray cray is 1A, a show produced by WAMU out of Washington, DC and fills an NPR talk time slot for many NPR stations.

When it was first hosted by Joshua Johnson, he made a concerted attempt to get multiple sides of an issue to the table. Commendable.

Then he left to go to MSNBC (big mistake) and eventually Jenn White became the host. Not nearly the number of differing viewpoints. The Friday News Roundup especially the Domestic Hour are just painful to listen to. Sometimes Friday host Todd Zwillich is snarky and Arthur Delaney from Huff Post brings it all back to President Trump for so many news stories.

Like I said painful to listen to. I used to donate but have not in years because of 1A losing their courage have on the show folks with differing viewpoints.

Compare that to The Politics Hour with Kojo Nnamdi which comes up right after 1A on Fridays. Yes, Nnamdi is a liberal. But he and co-host Tom Sherwood ask the tough questions of *everyone* that goes on that show.

[Skywise]

“ But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.”

And then proceeds to provide example after example of who is really “truth-impaired”

“Are we the baddies?”

[JimRed]

“It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story.”

And another thing to outright lie, which is NPR‘s stock in trade.

[Rummyfan]

’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.

Good Lord, that's a quad-fecta. What a stereotypical lib.

[aquila48]

And she doesn’t even mention them pushing the fraud of “CLIMATE EMERGENCY”!

[Jim Noble]

I have had a lot of COVID experience as well as a ringside seat to a lot of the censorship, “nudging”, and policy formation which still goes on today.

One of the most striking things has been how any major figure who publishes a mild dissent (back to school sooner, less masking, six feet meaningless, etc) INVARIABLY mentions within the first three sentences how they always were opposed to Trump, are still opposed to Trump, and (of course) their questioning of some dogma or “guidance” isn’t meant to support Trump in any way, since Trump is antiscience and is wrong about everything.

The role of opposition, and more than opposition, to President Trump by essentially all public figures dealing with COVID has not been fully explored for the essential role it played in policy making.

[Big Red Badger]

Hated Trump
.
Covered for Hunter and The Big Guy
.
Covid Cover-Up....
.
Yuppers
That’s NPR

[posterchild]

I listen to my state’s affiliate as i drive my children to school. It is easier to provide rebuttal to nutty ideas and bias if we hear it together. I used to rely on help from Rush but unfortunately that is no longer an option.

[Newtoidaho]

NPR: Nothing but Propaganda Radio.

Whatever they say, the opposite is true.

[Fury]

Berliner is essentially daring NPR to fire or otherwise discipline him. Will be interesting to see what they do.

[Vermont Lt]

Playing wordle is considered leftist?

[AppyPappy]

Iraq did possess WMD’s. The NYT reported that years ago.

[nutmeg]

.

[catnipman]

while i haven’t been at NPR for 25 years, i already knew every bit of this already ... so has almost everyone here at FR ...

[Noumenon]

The dung beetles at NPR have always regarded ordinary Americans with sneering condescension and contempt, if not outright hatred.

[Organic Panic]

This clown wants us to believe it wasn’t an active democrat party propaganda outlet until Trump? What utter complete bullcrap.

[Reddy]

“Like many UNFORTUNATE THINGS (emphasis mine), the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump.” .......... “But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a BELLIGERENT, TRUTH-IMPAIRED (emphasis mine) president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.”

Then he goes on to tell how NPR colluded with Schiff to promote the Russian collusion hoax, the Hunter laptop as Russian propaganda hoax, the covid from natural origin hoax as well as NPR promoting racist/sexist ideologies. All while he worked there.

He claims he tried to get things changed, but from the evidence of his quotes from the first paragraph of this post, it’s very evident that Uri Berlinger is the problem.

[dhouston]

De-fund NPR!