Posted on 04/16/2025 9:23:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Once upon a time – back in the 1970s – there were only a handful of places to get news – and one of them was National Public Radio. Today, Americans have access to thousands of diverse news stations on radio, TV and smartphones. None of them cost taxpayers a dime.
NPR is at best unnecessary and at worst so left leaning that it sounds like a daily mouthpiece for the progressives.
As you’ve probably heard, the CEO of NPR, Katherine Mayer, called President Trump a “Deranged, racist sociopath.” Maybe she thinks that language plays to NPR’s listeners.
Uri Berliner, a former NPR senior business editor who resigned last year over its increasing bias, found that in D.C. (where NPR is headquartered), there were 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. Fair and balanced.
The hundreds of millions of federal tax dollars that subsidize public TV and radio represent a wealth transfer from poorer Americans to the significantly wealthier audiences who tune into them. If NPR is of any value, surely the rich and famous niche audience who virtue signal by listening to it can afford to pay for it themselves. Or they can turn on MSNBC or CNN for their daily fake news.
then we can read the epstein and jfk files
The new “Hanoi Jane”.
"We're not biased are we?"
"No, I'm proud of our factual reporting which is unbiased. We should still get a billion dollars a year to spread this perfectly unbiased, factual news against the disinformation and lies of Trump, who is literally hitler."
I used to like NPR in the 1990s as they often reported on stuff that the Networks either didn’t cover, or lied about. These days, the best sources of unbiased news about the West come from Al Jazeera and Russia, both of which often act as consolidators of Western news reports (that don’t fit the Neocon/DNC narrative) that would otherwise take me many hours of work to dig up...as us Conservatives don’t have a USAID to do it for them.
Go figure.
American Short Stories and Click and Clack were the only things worth listening to.
Now that “Car Talk” is no more, I haven’t tuned in to NPR in years.
We enjoyed Click and Clack. Nothing else on NPR, though.
SNL’s parody of NPR was much better than NPR itself.
I live in a place where I can’t get any usable radio stations - Too far from large towns to get AM radio, and too far from small towns to get the low powered local stations. I have profound hearing loss which rules out FM radio. FM plays only music. I call it NOISE because of my hearing difficulty
Except..., I can look out my bedroom window and see the tower of a local university radio station. It plays only NPR.
So for decades, my clock radio has been set to NPR. For a while, I actually would listen to the morning news headlines, as I set my alarm to coincide with the start of the news hour. I quickly realized it was not news; it was well disguised propaganda.
Now, I still have it set to the same station as it’s the only reliable source for morning noise. However, I never listen to it. I almost always wake up just before it starts and shut it off. For the rare times it actually awakens me, I still shut it off before hearing anything except a note or two from the startup. I haven’t heard Mara Liasson’s nasal drone for decades (If she’s even still there).
I prefer the FR, because its format allows me to express my opinion no matter how out of this world. Unlike major newspapers, they decide which letters to the editors to publish. At least FR allows its subscribers to interact with some decency.
I used to listen to the local NPR stations in the 1970s as they were the only place I could find classical music and good jazz. Their News and talk shows even then were either a snore fest or leftist drivel and their never ending telethons all were reason enough to turn off the radio. Now I listen almost exclusively to Internet streaming radio that plays what I want and for a few dollars a month has no commercials. NPR doesn’t need our taxpayer dollars. Let George Soros bankroll their propaganda.
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