[ARCHIVED THREAD] - NPR - admit it (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 2/23/2008 4:37:39 PM EDT
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Who here listens to National Public Radio? I've made a few big moves lately, and....10 hours in a small car, NPR kept me sane. It was nice to have one constant. So............fess up. Do you listen because you feel smarter after? |
I'd rather listen to crop reports than NPR. |
 Best radio going if you know how to winnow the wheat from the chaff. The The Thomas Jefferson Hour is my favorite. |
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I listen to Morning Edition and All Things Considered. What they say about "driveway moments" is true. There's been many times I've found myself sitting in my car waiting to hear the end of a report before going into work or the house. Most people who bitch about NPR never listen to it. |
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Sirius Satellite, mostly the Patriot channel and music. So long as you know that NPR is slanted left, then listening is fine. Car Talk is good. Who here will admit to watching Bill Maher? I do. If you have a cast iron stomach, some of his shit is funny and you really get to know your enemy. 
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I've listened enough to NPR to hear virtually every one of their show hosts - including the weekend crew - profess to strong leftist beliefs. Even the supposedly non-political folks - Ira Flato (Science Friday), the Clack brothers (Click & Clack), Garrison Keillor (Prairie Home Companion) - have at some point let it slip that they are socialists. I seriously doubt you could find a conservative person in the entire NPR network. If the "Radio Fairness Doctrine" ever gets re-enacted, NPR is going to be seriously screwed. |
+1 I don't really listen to radio a lot. Pretty much the only radio I do listen to is NPR. Stuff like "Science Friday", "CarTalk" and "Wait, wait, don't tell me" are great shows. (There's another funny one I cannot remember that I enjoy too). Often, "Diane Reims" (sp?) "Talk of the nation" and "All things considered" have coverage of events that is more in-depth than crap like CNN, MSNBC, BBC, etc. Ironically, the NPR station in the nation's capital is NOT as good as the one in St. Louis. Go figure.  So, these days I don't listen as much to NPR as I used to.
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I listen to talk radio a lot more, but I listen to NPR on the drive to and from work because there's nothing else good on in my market at that time. NPR can be good especially when it tells me about books and music I otherwise wouldn't hear about. Other times it makes me want to claw my eyeballs out with the smarmiest, most insipid fluff pieces that would gag a maggot. Off the top of my head is a thing they did with a woman remembering what it was like to grow up as a girl in Puerto Rico. A week later they read listener emails, and several of them wrote about how the same piece that made me want to shoot my radio had them in a transfixed rapture that they never wanted to end, and how they cried at its poignancy. |
I didn't say they were rocket surgeons. But they haven't had a lobotomy like all the other show hosts. |
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Whatever bias NPR has is, I believe, greatly overblown here. And, bias aside, no other news outlet spends nearly as much time on actual reporting. Most television, and just about all talk radio, spends 3 times as much time 'analyzing' a news event then it does actually reporting it. That'd be tolerable if the analysis was anything more then pundents trying to spin shit their way. Besides that, NPR is the only source for good music on the radio. -Local |
You sir have been suckered. They deliver their left wing nonsense in controled soft voices while slowly turning their knives into our backs. They are VERY anti-gun. I will agree they do provide some very in-depth news reporting. |
Yep. Here's their official spokeswomen of WW2.  Here is their Gulf War 2 official spokesman: http://youtube.com/watch?v=s27Oq5ot0ZI GR |
That one and I also like "Radio Reader" at 8am Weekdays. I used to listen to public radio and NPR exclusively when driving to and from work. I had to find a refuge from the commercials on all the other channels on my FM dial. I woke up one day and realized how liberal public radio is, so now I just tune in for these two shows and sometimes for the classical musac. |
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I listen to NPR every day. (I don't have satellite radio, and I don't have TV, so it's really my only connection to mainstream media.) Some of their stuff is hysterical. Some of it really makes you think. It's not all lefty - maybe much of it, but not all. In particular, I like This American Life and Car Talk. Also, the morning new reports on my drive to work feature stuff I can't hear elsewhere, like interviews with citizens in other countries. It's really fascinating. ETA to add a link to the thread I posted a few days about NPR's positive segment on BlackHawk recorded at SHOT Show. www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=75&t=677696 |
| I listen to NPR in fact I worked as an evening/weekend student board operator when I was in college. Each station chooses which NPR shows to subscribe to so they pick which are more popular in your area. The only show I really didn't like was Afropop it was just weird music. |
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On the off chance that this arch-liberal will be spouting his views, I pretty much avoid it except for the music. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9775496 |
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I won't admit to "feeling smarter after" but I have been a regular if not daily listener of NPR for the majority of my adult life--at least the last 15 years or so. I can't stand most music-based FM radio, and AM has nothing good to offer during rush hour drive time in most of the places I've lived. I typically listen to NPR during AM & PM commutes and if I'[m lucky enough to spend some daytime hours driving I listen to Limbaugh or whatever talk radio catches my interest. If I want to listen to music, I have a CD player. |
+1 Their Left-Wing/Communist bias is not overblown. I listen to a lot of NPR since there's great reception in this area. You could be in some cave deep in the woods and still hear it around here. Some of the programming is unbiased, but the rest of it is pure Communist propaganda. Gee, I wonder who started NPR. 
Instead of creating gov't funded, subversive Communist organizations at home, Johnson should have been fighting to win against the Communists in Vietnam. Ronald Reagan would have dismantled NPR if he hadn't been so busy fighting and winning the war against the Communists abroad. 
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OK, so let's do a little listening test . . . Here is All Things Considered's report on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the Heller case. Let's all listen to this report (it's less than 3 minutes long) and everybody comment on how liberal and anti-gun the slant is. I'm sure you can find something to find fault with, but I keep in mind this report is probably about six times longer, and much more detailed than report the network TV news programs or any other radio news provided on the Supreme Court's decision to hear the case. ETA: There are four more Heller-related stories linked off that page above (and more gun related links off of those). Listen to them all if you really want to judge the level of NPR bias. |
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I listened twice a day, every day for about 5 or 6 years. I finally got to where I couldn't stomach the outright slant of their "news". They usually report the "truth", but so selectively, that the end result is little more than lying blather. NPR would make Josef Goebbels proud. It's about as unbalanced as news can be. And if there's something big that counters their spin, they marginalize it or completely sweep it under the rug. So now I turn it on only at specific times to catch certain segments. |