I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

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  1. Bluesguy

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    I suggest you read the article you may want to withdraw your statements about how conservative and liberal viewpoints are treated equally.
     
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    Because they are no different from NPR

    The Associated Press’ progressive bias is out of control


    ....Honest public discourse depends on calling things by their right names. But much like the current trend at many mainstream publications and broadcast outlets, where journalists think their job is now to fight Trump and conservatives rather than just report the facts and let the people decide, the AP Stylebook has become an eager recruit for left-wing Democratic activism and the anti-Trump “resistance.”

    Those in the press who want to preserve an honorable profession necessary to a working democracy need to start ignoring the AP Stylebook and stick to truthful definitions.[/QUOTE]
    https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/the-associated-press-progressive-bias-is-out-of-control/


    They don't pander to anyone they give a fair voice to everyone. And no they do not hide the fact that the majority of their panelist and opinion are on the right and none of them hide it but then same for their ample on the left commentators and host whom are some of the best. You actually get intellectual argument from the on the left commentators on FOX not just hyperbolic personal attacks on Trump and other Republicans.
     
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    I have done my sampling, except MSNBC, and as I said it may well be as bad as FOX.
     
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    Did someone say it was? I said FOX made it into headline news, which they did. Get over it.

    Yea, you too, whatever that even means.
     
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    Take some Pepto Bismol and get some rest. Take care.
     
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    Of course but you committed \whole heartedly to the idea that FOX is the worst of all. Are we to understand then that you watch a lot of FOX?
     
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    Thanks, I will.
     
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    Do I get to know whose left biased opinion this is?
     
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    Not everyone on the right is a partisan. I am not. Conservative for sure but not partisan. I look at everything political from common sense and I tend to reject positions that don't meet the common sense requirement. Partisanship exists on both sides. There certainly are sensible liberals. But the progressive wing has lost all sight of common sense. Things like supporting men competing in womens' sports and supporting Hamas in favor of Israelis are not based on common sense. They just aren't.
     
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    Does anyone know the name of the absolutely pure of heart observer has been chosen to identify and utilize the political center that is used for these various comparisons?
     
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    Worst of the major networks, except that MSNBC is said to be as bad

    I have seen more enough to know their truth.

    Any particular reason you rushed to their defense?
     
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    Yeah, I don't recall NPR being sued and having to settled for $787 million big ones for lying about elections and voting systems. So let's put this into it's proper perspective.
     
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    Who supports Hamas anyway? What's the point of finding some fringe person and them pretending its what everyone thinks. You believe in Jewish space lasers? 9/11 being inside job? Pizza gate? Hillary's kill lists? Stolen elections?
     
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    they sure as hell didn't do that when they were spouting lies about Dominion, hence they had to settle for $787 million for those one sided lies.

    They have a few token liberals, Jessica Tarlov and Juan williams. But, in prime time, Hannity, if he does have a liberal on, he'll find the weakest liberal he can find to use as a punching bag.
    Fox will taut Joe's great stats, but on the biz channel, most of whom are not watching it, they are watching fox news.

    Bret Baier is pretty good, but on the daytime. So, they'll put the strong libs on day who have the moderate repub hosts, and at night, they'll put weak libs against strong repub hosts. Oh, they'll put Tulsi Gabbard on Fox, but she's a turncoat, same goes for RFKjr. The only guy who is a strong lefty I have seen on Fox is Pete Buttigeig. There might be a few others, but I can't think of any, off hand.

    You can claim 'both sides' but, even match? hardly. The only guy who ever made the honest attempt at even matches on a regular basis was Bill Buckley. But Bill Buckley, when he was out gunned when he had Noam Chomsky on, he only had him on once, never invited him back. And Limbaugh NEVER interviewed anyone.

    Now, Maddow has an open invitation to any republican, but they won't go on her show. She's a strong contender, same goes for Joe Scarborough (who is right of center), and Lawrence O'Donnell. Bill Maher has a lot of strong repubs appear on his show, like, all the time. On Fox, Chris Wallace was very good, but he went to CNN.
     
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    NPR has also been rejected by independents who used to rely on it.

    MSM = Fake News
    State Funded Media = The Fakest News

    SOCIAL PANIC

    Propaganda, Social Media, Censorship, Media And Privacy Issues
    YOUTUBE TO LABEL PBS AS “STATE-FUNDED MEDIA”
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    The label will apparently apply to any media outlet that distributes content on Youtube and which receives any public funding.

    https://socialpanic.org/2018/02/03/youtube-to-label-pbs-as-state-funded-media-2/

    Which is not to say that NPR is always wrong or that its content is 100% Fake News.
    PBS/NPR is as credible as Big Bad Government cares to make it. ;-)
     
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    Independent content creators is an euphemism for folks who couldn't get a job at a reputable news outlet. Places where reporting is scrutinized before it is published. Those places make mistakes as all operations run by human beings do. But their reporting is held to standards not self enforced by "independent content creators." IOW, a guy with a blog.
     
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    But by your own statement you have to watch some of it before you can make such a determination. I think all of them report the same news, it's the way they present it that makes the bias dangerous regardless which side they are courting.
     
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    I listen to public radio station somewhat regularly but I don't particularly pay a lot of attention to their clear bias. The most interesting observation anecdotally was they were fear and doom and gloom about COVID right up until Trump lost and then suddenly they started having people on who were saying things like well you probably won't get it just walking past someone with it and a lot of the studies were extreme cases where the researcher manipulated conditions to make it a viable contaminate as long as they possibly could in the lab under conditions you would never encounter in the real world.
     
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    NPR is boring just like local politics used to be before crazies took over school boards, etc. Anyway, if it's boring, it's typically unbiased.
     
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    Yes, I told you. I have seen more than enough to form an opinion, and I see FOX articles in the net too. The reporting on the solar eclipse was 90% about "failed border policies" and 10% about the eclipse.

    Inventing stuff about "stolen elections" etc is not news, its fiction.
     
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    Neh! We want articles that are true and the Left Wing media lies a lot
     
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    Aw, poor liberals. Mistreated by Fox. Good thing that doesn't happen on CNN, right?
     
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    A significant percentage of the population of Dearborn, MI. All the people who protest Israel. Saying they support palestinians isn't good enough. Palestinians protect hamas and hamas is a terrorist group that slaughtered 1500 people last autumn. Supporting palestinians is tantamount to supporting hamas. Shame on our government.
     
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    NPR is biased enough that I view it as political propaganda from federal government. Not all the programming is political, of course, but the political stuff is completely biased.
     

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