It's always funny to listen to the libs talk about NPR in glowing terms, when practically all the news shows are funded by the Kochs, Fords, and Rockefellers.
It really fell off a cliff during the 2016 US presidential election. Went from standard liberal brain-rot to a right wing tabloid.
Yeah they kinda lost the 'Nice, Polite' part of the 'Nice Polite Republicans'.
The real thing was that the voices never changed and are still just as droningly boring as ever.
-This remark fact checked by NewsCorp, who are definitely not beholden to the rich and powerful
They had a dude on back in 2017 to talk about his book that was called something like “white nationalism is good actually”
I hate-listen to it. Like cool be a different style from commercial radio and machismo, but don't be so damn effete about everything all the time for god's sake. Like "how to feel less bad in your soul-crushing dystopian worklife." Pseudo-intellectualism with no real materialist analysis. They act like they bring more diversity of voices than they really do.
The local affiliate OPB does some good reporting sometimes at least (they were the only outlet not to simply repeat what police said about the Normandale Park shooting during BLM protests), but NPR is so lame and fake.
I still like On The Media occassionally, when they aren't discussing capital P Politics about dems and reps. Some years ago they did a really good I think series about evictions and how they're designed to keep people poor, also medical debt and criminal justice fee traps. Also about how Cops was a concerted effort to whitewash policing, redlining, lead. There have been a lot of good eps over the years.
This American Life has gone downhill I think, I rarely find an interesting one anymore.
Radiolab is still good, they just don't put out new stuff that often.
On The Media was one of the better ones. They had some dude on there just a couple days ago spouting some shit about Russia and the Grain deal, though, and that made me scream.
I don't care if it makes me a turbolib, but you can pry Wait Wait Don't Tell Me out of my cold, dead hands.
Listening to right wing radio is simultaneously funny, horrifying, and annoying. Listening to NPR makes me enter a white hot rage.
Regarding politics and business, NPR will run a good article every now and again. But usually they just quote cops directly and do liberal capitalist propaganda straight. Maybe 1 out of 20 articles they run actually question or challenge capitalist interests. Not a terrible rate for an American "Publicly funded" news org.
its just for plausible deniability "nooo! We're not capital interest funded! See? We posted an article about how mcdonalds workers when asked repored frownie faces more than smilie faces!!!"
to be fair, the first time i listened to NPR
was on, and had his own show, which was pretty surprising. still lib thoI only listen to them on the radio occasionally on my to/from work (car won't connect to my phone, so i switch between 4 mediocre radio stations), but they seem a lot further left (or at least closer to center) than fox news and similar. I see by the comments that no one else thinks very highly of them. Does anyone have some links to any of the offending examples?
