re: Was NPR ever a legit news organization?

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It was always a left Democrat Party outfit but in long years past there was at least a semblance of effort to be reasonable.

It took a big lurch to the left during the Obama years.

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Was going to post this.

Won’t happen, but should be defunded.

Car Talk rocked. Hard to tell what was NPR changing and what was me changing, but I went from a regular listener to never listener a couple years ago. I got tired of seeing everything through the prism of race, class, and gender, and much like the NYT, their refusal to cover the likelihood that Covid was the result of a lab leak made me tune them out completely.

If millions of people are dying around the world from a scientific accident and you want to talk to me about the plight of transsexual street prostitutes in Central America, then I’m out.

In the early 2000's (pre good podcasts), I listened to a ton of NPR as a young conservative strongly opposed to the Iraq war.

NPR was clearly leaning left, but it was almost a necessary foil to Fox News, which was legit state propaganda in the same way NPR is today. I was comfortable listening, even when I disagreed with a blatantly Left segment, in the same way I could watch Fox News and barf when they worshipped W.

At that point c. 2003, NPR's production quality was much better than any other radio "news," and the science coverage was better than anything else.

I completely stopped listening to NPR by 2009, when it started to feel like propaganda vs just biased news.

No. Next question.

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I’ve listened to npr since the mid 90s.

It was always a left Democrat Party outfit but in long years past there was at least a semblance of effort to be reasonable.

It took a big lurch to the left during the Obama years.

It went so far left over the past few years that it’s completely fallen off the edge into Kookville.

Every day now it’s Marxist ideology, race baiting divisiveness, Democrat Party talking points, and damage control cleanup of anything that could weaken the official process/narrative.

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This is right on target. I listened to NPR in the 1990s. It was strongly tilted to the left, but there was at least some effort to be reasonable and to give some attention to conservative viewpoints. It started moving farther to the left with Obama, but now it has dropped all pretense of journalistic neutrality. I stopped listening about 10 years ago when I found that every morning they would tell their stories by interviewing only progressives/liberals/Democrats and ignoring alternative viewpoints. To call NPR "journalism" is an abomination.

In the early 80s, I tried to listen to it for the classical music programming, but could not stomach the obvious slant even then.

i try to flip it on and see what those losers are discussing.

they all try that low, trying to be quiet,serious voice

And it's always about whitey and republicans