I used to look forward to listen to NPR

I started listening to NPR maybe 30 years ago so I didn’t have to listen to commercials. I stopped when the pledge drive happened more often and longer than commercial breaks.

 

"The government shouldn't give any funding to NPR because I don't like its viewpoints anymore." A+ work.

 

I worry about the government paying for any press. I know that no one does it for free but government funding it just feels wrong to me.

 

It certainly becomes a problem when you have folks who want to pull funding if they don't like the views of the media source.

 

I feel like NPR has always been very liberal.

 

I have negative associations simply because if I’m listening to NPR these days, I’m probably sitting in traffic on the beltway on the way to my least favorite of my various jobs. I don’t think the political lean has changed much in the past couple decades, but where I live the audience hasn’t changed that much either.

 

Listening to one of the classic rock stations (especially the Tom Petty Channel) on Siriusxm is far more enjoyable than the nonsense broadcast by npr.

 

Would you be ok with government funding for Fox News?

 

NPR’s response:

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243755769/npr-journalist-uri-berliner-trust-diversity

 

Talk radio sucks. All of it. I’ll never understand why it’s so popular.

 

I can only listen to the same repetitive songs on the radio so many times. Even satellite. I've got to mix in sports talk and podcasts to switch it up

 

I don’t listen to the radio much either. I probably average 4 hours a day on Spotify though - without repeating songs. Can’t stand listening to people blab about sports or politics. But to each their own.

 

There wouldn’t be the problem if government wasn’t paying for the press in the first place.

 

I think it’s cheap. They don’t have to pay to use the songs. Kind of like game shows.

 

I listened on NPR to the first Clinton-Trump debate in the 2016 election as I was driving to Georgia. After the debate the commentators from NPR gushed over how wonderful Clinton had performed and criticized Trump‘s demeanor. They said Clinton acted very presidential.

A short time later, I stopped at a hotel for the night and flipped on the tv and found a replay of the debate. What I saw was almost the opposite of what NPR‘s commentators had described. Clinton was the one making faces and muttering under her breath.

NPR definitely had its preference in the election.

 

Read the article right after I had to turn down making a donation.

 

Not that it is needed but …… the existence of npr refutes in no uncertain terms any assertion from the liberal/progressive that there is no bias in the media.