I used to listen to NPR many years ago .I turned it on just a couple of years ago and was SCHOCKED.I thought, oh crap the Lefties got 'em.😢How come conservatives don't affect media?
Had been a donor subscriber since 1981, gave thousands to NPR over the years, had to pull the plug about three years ago. When it comes on the car radio, I start hitting the presets like I"m swatting a fly. It's virtually unlistenable now.
Someone in the news business once said “ if you can tell if I’m a Republican or Democrat. I’m not doing my job.” That should be the standard for ANY publicly funded news organization. I’ve seen many stories on RUclips where they shut off the comments.
@@richbirecki How do you know if a given RUclips or Rumble provider is incorporated? And what difference does it make. I’ve already said I recognized NOR as biased 40 years ago, but Berliner had no complaint then a long after.
I was an NPR contributing member until several years ago. At some point, NPR went completely off the tracks as far as I'm concerned. NPR used to be SUCH a pleasure to listen to. What did they call those things? "Driveway moments?" Not uncommonly, I sat in my driveway and even circled around town to listen to the finish of some of the stories - often narrated by Robert Seigel. I can't stand to listen to NPR now. It's all just ultra-liberal schlock (in my opinion).
The USSR had state run media. Today, it seems that "The West" (USA, Canada, Western Europe, etc) are a collection of media-run states. As a Canadian, I would always tune in to NPR while travelling in the USA. I did notice a big change in the tone from 2010 to 2019. Since 2020, It has come to the point where I can no longer listen to, watch or read any mainstream news sources. There are great independent journalists that still believe in "classical liberal" values. I believe that these are the values that both liberals and conservatives share. Sadly, they won't be found in any mainstream media outlet.
sadly, no free press with noble owners/ editors and unbiased reporters are now in the small minority and that is why so many people in America are becoming indoctrinated, blinded to truth and weak !
Except left and right DON'T agree with the principles of Classical liberalism equally. From Wikipedia: "advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech. Classical liberalism, contrary to liberal branches like social liberalism, looks more negatively on social policies, taxation and the state involvement in the lives of individuals, and it advocates deregulation." Now, do you see lib-dems agreeing with laissez-faire economics, deregulation, low taxation, looking negatively at social policies, and limited government? No, of course not. Classical Liberalism ideals has a home today with the Center-Right. Among Republicans.
as an Independent conservative in the 80s I always watched PBS and NPR. After their COVID and the BLM BS, I shut them off. I watch only alternative media now. screw the MSM.
I gave up on MSM for different reasons. They have restricted all truth in reporting the atrocities in Gaza....or avoided reporting anything at all. They all have Palestinian blood on their hands. I'm sick of AIPAC and big foriegn donars, running our government and MEDIA.
I read the mission statement of his replacement and I saw the coming of the decline of NPR into a leftwing mouthpiece. Its direction has turned to propaganda. It turns my stomach.
I liked NPR in the ‘80s, but I wondered why they were always disparaging Ronald Reagan. By the mid ‘90s I couldn’t stand the stupid segue music and the pious tone of voice. I would donate to my local station for local programming, but the whole lineup is NPR dreck.
I've listened to NPR several times over the years as I traveled the backroads of the US and noticed a recurring approach to their storytelling: 1) Introduce a reporter who they cast as some time of "expert" who tells the story of some hardship or perceived injustice incurred by some person or group. 2) Interview the aggrieved party to get their side of the story, thereby personalizing them and creating sympathy for them. 3) Define the wrong-doer(s) and how the wrong-doers (usually conservative/republican) don't care about anyone else but themselves and 4) Offer up a solution that generally aligns with liberal/democratic/socialist ideologies. Occasionally their "expert" will offer up a strawman argument on behalf of the wrong-doers which is dismissed immediately as disingenuous or incomplete. In the dozen or so stories I've heard them tell, they never ONCE engaged in a real debate and had a person outside of NPR present the opposite side of the story. Intentionally or not, they've become and echo-chamber of their own ideology.
A hero. I've loved listening to NPR since 2006, when I used to listen to CarTalk on Sundays with my dad. But I shut it off last year after multiple instances of clear and extreme bias, such as when they labeled those decrying Cardi B's WAP as engaging in "misogynoir."
Here is why I stopped listening to NPR during my morning commute... It seemed that in most news stories they would tie-in 'global warming' and 'rising sea levels', no matter how unrelated the story subject matter was to these environmental issues. It got overly annoying for me. And I have an Environmental Science Degree and having had worked in the Water Resources field for 20 years at that time in a gov job. Ive seen first hand evidence of warming in Alaska, but they don't need to ring the climate change bell in every story that has nothing to do with environmental concerns... it just got ridiculous. They have an agenda.
He's exactly right. I'm a conservative and former journalist who has appreciated NPR's quality and listened for many years. It's stunning how leftist they've become and focused on identity politics. I used to see them as principled liberals, but now they're just pumping out all the leftist cliches.
The real question is not can NPR be saved, but SHOULD NPR be saved and the obvious answer in light of its comprehensive loss of journalistic integrity is NO. NPR should not be saved and should be defunded of any and all public money now.
NPR??? EVERY mainstream media bogus 'news' agency, especially their Zionist/Globalist owners whose main purpose is to psyop the American people... and all the other propaganda machines spreading lies across the planet.
I disagree. I think Public Radio is still an important and valuable service. I think what needs to be rescued is the intent with which it was created. Publicly funded Radio is part of our system of checks and balances. It must be independent of political parties and independent of corporations' advertising dollars. It's just lost its direction, and with it, eroded it's own power.
I listened to NPR for at least 15 years. Then all of the sudden instead of uplifting and interesting conversation, any and EVERY bad thing imaginable about our country was listed and dissected ALL OF THE TIME! That is when I turned off. Must be nearly 12-15 years ago.
You don't like bad news? That's how you judge a new outlet - do they conceal hard truths and help support your feeling that we live in the best of all possible worlds? You are nuts!
You can also get some much needed(but fair) critique of NPR from Peter Boghossian in his series called "All Things Re-Considered" where he and guests go into detailed examples of how they have morphed into biased unhelpful misinformation.
It’s because he is part of the “1srael can do no wrong” camp…then he saw NPR questioning 1sraeli war tactics, which he perceived as Anti-UknowWhat, and decided to leave for that reason. Of course, he’s gonna embellish it here. Disingenuous journalist.
@@PaulBCohen I'm sure Barry Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger all agree with you, he was so brave standing up to surport them when they were attacked, but i suppose that's just my bias.
@@flowerdoyle3749 Oh, so you can't have an opinion, what a wonderful world you want. Only those permitted to make comments must be passed by the censors, everyone else must stay silent, as censors like you clearly know what's good for everyone else.
I’ve been a listener and financial supporter for 30 years. The NPR management / hosts and 1A total obsession with skin color and LBGQ issues invading so many stories has been disheartening. Also the anti-Israeli bias is pervasive.
I am neither a liberal nor a conservative or a centrist. I was reared with the understanding that it is the problem that matters and that no single camp has a monopoly on ideas that work.
I disagree. I think Public Radio is still an important and valuable service. I think what needs to be rescued is the intent with which it was created. Publicly funded Radio is part of our system of checks and balances. It must be independent of political parties and independent of corporations' advertising dollars. It's just lost its direction, and with it, eroded it's own power. Checks and balances are important and vital vor the power of us, ALL citizens. It would be nearsighted to give up our own power just because we don't like a perspective. What we, the citizenry must fight for is news that are just that. The news. We are all capable of forming our own opinions.
@@Anil18834 Public radio and TV once had a place and has moved far beyond any system of checks and balances. Coverage and viewpoints are overwhelmingly left leaning - from topics and programs, to interviews and news. It doesn’t operate in an independent manner and uses its “independence” as a crutch to continue with federal funding. To suggest it’s independent is dishonest and materially misleading.
The past few years have felt like I was surrounded by people who all joined a cult but I didn't get the memo. I'd point it out but that only seemed to make them think I was the heretic. I still feel like I'm living in a parallel universe with some family members. I just hope one day the kool aid will wear off and I'll get some kind of apology.
During the Bush era, I listened to NPR on the radio every single day for at least two years. Amy Goodman was one of my heroes..... I got out of politics until Trump came along and so I checked to see what my favorite old radio station's take on his bid would be. Turns out they were just as unhinged as the rest of the corporate press 🙄 😒 So that was very disappointing. Then of course they went full woke. Which of course makes honest reporting completely impossible. NPR Died. They're just propaganda now.
When i heard NPR interviewing a mom who does porn cam in her home for extra money- and extolling it as a good way to earn money. I thought, oh, lovely. You hide it from your children now , but they will find it. And maybe when her daughter comes of age, she will think its a good idea too. I was DONE.
@@KatrSayetFirst off, she sounded like suburban mom looking tp make a little extra cash (or maybe alot of extra cash , fast and easy too) There are other ways to make money. Feeding the porn machine does immeasurable damage to ones spiritual life. To struggle HONORABLY creates an amazing human being, one her children can look up to and emulate .I've known very poor people who have kept their moral values. At the end of thier lives,they become the true Elders of their community , sterling souls who used to be the moral bedrocks of a society. But the left no longer believes we even have a soul to develop. Or that the tried and true values of our ancestors are worth anything. "If it feels good, do it." Any fetish, any pleasure, any cheap thrill- why not ? I am watching my society break down as the CHARACTOR of each individual does. It is the end result of a society based on consumerism and hedonism.
And lose your self esteem on the process? Contribute to the pernicious and evil rise in pornography engulfing society? There must be better ways to make a living. And I agree that in the end it will devastate her children. I used to listen to NPR for years especially as I cooked dinner or was in the car. Now I occasionally tune in but literally I last about five minutes before grimacing and switching it off.
I was a lifetime listener, starting in high school and college. I quit listening a few years ago as I can hear the daily bias. Thanks for confirming what a lot of us knew to be true.
Around 2003, I quit listening to NPR because it started sounding like MSNBC but with soft music playing in the background. I miss Click and Clack. They were so funny.
I stopped listening to Public Radio in the U.S. which I loved in about 2018 when I started noticing a distinct left wing bias. For instance a reporter doing a story about a black man attacking an Asian person followed up the report with “but remember that most people that commit attacks on Asian people are white.” For one thing I don’t think this is true and for another thing it’s completely irrelevant to the story. That’s not reporting that’s political advocacy. And the number of times I heard them soft pedaling ANTIFA and praising Socialism was absolutely infuriating. Things are always Far Right but never Far Left. Utter hypocrisy.
I've listened to NPR since 1979 when I started my university education. Now I can't stand the myopic tunnel vision of the stories. I have turned it off.
NPR must get giant corporate donors to offset the loss of listeners due to the bias issues-and the other MSM companies get their advertising dollars from the same corporate donors. This is why they are all essentially working for the government-whose officials work for the corporate campaign dollars. It’s a nasty system that serves itself. Not the citizens.
Given what happened to Wikipedia in the past 5+ years, it didn't take a lot of insight to realize she was a radical opposed to free speech in service to the hard left message
Sorry but I am far left libertarian, in camp with people like Chomsky, and the authoritarian left doesn't represent me at all. I live inner city and saw the horrors Fauci and company put HIV patients through in the name of science, and its honestly not that different from the way pharma has treated minorities as guinea pigs throughout recent history.
Thank you for coming forward. I used to call myself a right leaning moderate (fiscal conservative/social moderate) but now that view can’t survive in the current environment. So sad, it’s big money with an agenda.
I quit watching NPR quite some time ago. I worked at a major university and quite a little of that time was spent at our NPR broadcasting building and watch the atmosphere in the building gradually disintegrate into what it is today NPR promotes and produces some of the most indoctrinated programs for young children for sublimable mind, ordering acceptance of the NPR Gay propaganda in a camouflage is itself as being an open minded, but it’s not it’s exactly like the mainstream propaganda medium so I turned it off right along with commercial television. The best thing you could do for your family mainly children is get rid of Main stream propaganda news. Turn it off for your children’s sake God save this nation
Our family was a regular donor to NPR. We noticed the editorial changes a few years ago. NPR had become despicably biased. Some powerful interests groups have obviously gained control. We don't watch it anymore. Who is controlling NPR?
I like concrete examples of the problems with NPR news coverage so here is an example: During the 2010-2019 period, NPR news programs had numerous segments concerning the boom in U.S. oil production due to fracking (tight or shale oil). The news programs came across as cheerleaders for the U.S. oil and gas industry. They interviewed numerous promoters of the fracking industry and it sounded like the supply of oil due to fracking was infinite or nearly infinite. There were prominent petroleum geologists who were basically saying "Let's chill a bit here on the infinite oil thing" but certainly they were never interviewed. Now you can say, "but the U.S. set an oil production record last year (2023) at 12.927 mb/d so what's the problem? The problem is that the industry has been milking the shale plays hard and there is now a serious problem for the future. First, ~70% of U.S. oil production now comes from 5 tight oil (shale) plays: Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, Bakken, Anadarko and Niobrara. 90% of the tight oil production comes from the first three plays. Here is what an oil executive said recently: "Shale will likely tip over in five years, and US production will be down 20 to 30% quickly. When it does-this feels like watching the steam roller scene in Austin Powers. Oil prices in the late 2020s will be something to behold.” An industry executive responding to a poll by the Dallas Fed; Here is what Art Berman, a prominent petroleum geologist, stated recently after studying the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford and Bakken: "The implications of this Bakken study and recent evaluations of the Permian and Eagle Ford plays are clear-this is the beginning of the end for the tight oil plays." Most tight oil well production occurs in the fist two years of production. What that means is that wells have to be added rapidly to maintain or increase production. What is happening is that the "sweet spots" in the shale plays are being saturated with wells. Once they are fully saturated, oil production will decline. In 1970, conventional U.S. oil production was a little under 10 mb/d and that didn't included northern Alaskan oil fields. That production, including northern Alaska, is now down to about 2 mb/d. Production can decline quite rapidly after a peak. Take the example of the U.K. Production peaked in the U.K. in 1999 and its now down over 75%. The problem is that there are no fruitful areas to drill in the U.K. These are important issues that you won't hear about on NPR.
Wow. Well done. and thanks for the education. Makes Sense. The oil and GAS industry obtained and installed the piping rights for natural gas along with the fracking. The NG is the essential and critical element for the hydrogen economy. The hydrogen hubs are being built now. $7 - $8 billion was just (this past year from the green new deal) allotted for them. You can google the locations of the hubs. So. Oil will skyrocket. And the gas industry will come in (with whatever administration is in office) as the white night to rescue the country. Except they'll have a all gas production and contracts (along with politicians that sold us out). This started under Bush 2 (oil and gas) and was consumated this past year with public dollars (biden-harris). Add to that the backdoor deals for the semi conductor and battery plants. Both sides are in on the game. They've sold the country and the people out, man. wake up.
I too noticed NPR's shift toward race, class, gender, race, class, gender, ad nauseam, years ago. Many times lately I've tuned into my local NPR station at several times in a single day and what did I hear? Race, class, slavery, discrimination, gender, race, class, etc. Even on a show about food and recipes. On a food show! Race, slavery on a food show!! It's hard for any individual or organization to see themselves as they really are and NPR is no exception. I have supported NPR financially for years but they've gone too woke for me. Mr. Berliner makes a most important point: when advocating any position whatever, one must consider the cost, consider the alternatives. Gee, looking at a question from multiple angles? Considering pros and cons? What an idea! Only about two thousand years old. Bravo for Mr. Berliner!! He is a ray of light in the current storm of extremism and foolishness by both the right and the left.
For the reasons mentioned in this talk, among many more, I'm a supporter of RFK Jr. In random order, and in simple terms, here's some of my reasons for supporting RFK Jr... -genuinely wants to heal the 'culture war' divide in our country, and he has the ability to, being liked by many different 'types' of people from across the spectrum of issues and ideas, who are tired of the 2-party duopoly -has integrity, has courage, truth seeker in general, thinks for himself (not a DNC/RNC puppet) -incorruptible, cannot be bought or bullied -thoughtful and introspective, deeply considers problems and possible solutions -vocal about the corruption of 'Citizens United' and the power of the big private money controlling government -vocal about putting an end to corporate capture over government (Pharma, banks, oil, big AG, military industrial complex) -wants to get us out of 'forever wars' and to pull back on and expose the corruption within the military industrial complex -wants to pull back NATO and resolve the Ukraine war via negotiations with Putin, rather than perpetuating the escalation (which could truly lead to the most dire outcome imaginable) -wants to bring the military budget back to 'Eisenhower minimum' and to instead invest that money in making us strong at home and in correcting our outrageous debt and growing inflation -dedicated to rebuilding the Middle Class in our country -dedicated to creating our country as a moral exemplar and economic force in the world, rather than as a militaristic bully -vocal about the dishonesty and agendas of commercial media -wants to abolish all pharmaceutical advertisements on television (this has major influence on the 'news' narratives) -wants to keep the pharmaceutical industry honest with safety testing, transparency, etc -wants to get rid of government assist crony capitalism and subsidies for big ag, oil, etc -advocate for civil liberties -vocally against censorship (will pardon Snowden and Assange on 'day 1') -against mandates and police state-like policies -classical liberal sensibilities with respect of others (without the 'woke' or fake identity politics) -vocal commitment to transparency regarding FBI, CIA, NSA over-stepping and out-stepping -would put the federal budget on blockchain to be fully transparent for all citizens -passionate about environmental and ecological concerns -passionate about investing in regenerative farming practice -passionate about cleaning our food supply and exposing the unhealthy ingredients in processed 'foods' -wants to bring preventative health more into public discourse; nutrition, exercise, etc -will immediately close the border (this is not some republican scare issue, it is a very major issue - for many reasons) -will send the necessary Asylum Judges to the border to expedite the process for legal migrants -has an excellent plan to make homes affordable for all, including a program that backs mortgages at 3% and a tax structure to keep Black Rock from continuing to buy everyone out (this also will bring rent costs down dramatically) -due to his family/background, he's well-learned from the inside of the various power structures -due to his decades as an attorney successfully taking on major corporations, as well as government regulatory corruption, he is exceptionally well-suited for taking on the myriad of corrupt corporate capture over our government *I wrote the list above many months before Oct 7, 2023. I should add, especially directed towards my brothers and sisters of the populist 'left' and populist 'right', 'progressives', 'libertarians', and people who are just antiwar, in general... -RFK Jr. is in support of Israel (as am I). However, this in no way means he isn't also in support of helping the innocent people within Gaza. RFK Jr. has always been very aware of the conditions for the people within Gaza, and is especially aware of, and feels deep heartache for, the Hell they are living in now. He is a person who, as President, would do all he could to help seek lasting peace and prosperity for all in the region -although RFK Jr. is a supporter of Israel, he is not a fan of Netanyahu, and has said repeatedly that he would not be writing him a blank check with American dollars to do with as he wishes -there is no one who would fight harder or more tirelessly to reach out to everyone involved, as well as to leaders outside of the region, to try to negotiate and implement a sustainable peaceful solution for both the Israelis and the Palestinians. RFK Jr. would bring many ideas and a commitment to approaching the problem there from several different angles, and involving several other players. In fact, he would have been doing this before Oct. 7. (Simply yelling 'apartheid', 'genocide', etc is not in service of an actual solution - ask Hamas) -and unlike anyone from the 2 major parties who supports Israel, RFK Jr. would never be lead by the corrupt (and disgusting) sheer financial interests of the Military Industrial Complex when it comes to any of America's foreign policy; including with Israel
Yes, yes, and yes. He would have been the PERFECT Dem candidate. I believe he would have won many Trump followers too. I believe he would win. Instead, ONCE AGAIN, forced to chose between two evils because the machine dictates who we get to vote for..
Hungary banned him so long ago for a reason ! Soros is buying souls and ruining societies normals. Sinful and youth work ethics need brought back . Respect too !
I tried listening to NPR 30 years ago. It was blatantly liberal. It happens on both sides, but especially on the progressive side, that blatantly biased people really believe they are giving "fair" treatment to all sides when they aren't.
Listened to NPR for years. Donated to them for several years. I knew perfectly well that they were further left than I was but the stories were good and it seemed reasonably balanced. That stopped over time and the shift to progressive views and outright hostility toward conservative ideas. There was almost no story that didn’t show blatant bias in the questions. It is truly painful to me that a once solid source has gone so far off the rails. It is anything but liberal. Stopped listening long before the Trump insanity.
I miss the days when the news were just the news, with careful word choices to avoid presenting bias. I'm capable of formulating my own opinions, thank you. Also, I remeber in the early 2000s, when NPR used to interview 3, or at least 2 different knowledgeable people with different, well developed perspectives on a particular topic. That is gone. Back then, all I needed to do was to compare 2 news sources, one of them often international for a wider perspective. Now, I have to go through 5, sometimes 8 news sources to research a particular topic and feel satisfied that I'm well informed.
I renamed it several years ago: National Propaganda Radio, aka National Petroleum Radio. Thanks to Berliner for having the integrity and courage to speak out.
NPR is absolutely comical. Everytime i turn the station to NPR there is a woman either crying, complaining or talking nonsense. That is the crux of their programming.
Turned it off in 2016 over the biased election coverage. NPR got me through a lot of miles when I traveled for work in the early 2000s. It used to be to be great.
So grateful that someone like an editor could come forward and tell the truth about what NPR has become. I listened to it for 30 years(?) and my children were brought up on it. When I started to question it and then stop listening they didn’t understand and then it became a pivot point for the fact I was doubting the political.policies and they weren’t . So now maybe we can have some talking points to get started in understanding.❤
I used to listen to NPR every day on my way to work. I would often change the station when it got off on some biased tangent. I stopped listening all together during the pandemic. If things have only gotten worse I can only imagine how bad it has become. Imagination will have to suffice because I really can't tolerate it anymore.
Years ago, I used to tune in to NPR all the time, but they became progressively, Progressive. It was obvious, and progressively propagandistic. I left it behind as my college years receded into the past.
I listened to NPR daily for about 30 years. As Mr. Berliner says, it always leaned left, but rarely in an offensive or overdone way. Starting in 2020 I began noticing a definite very strong shift toward the progressive, even far-left viewpoint.. It became easy to predict the way a story would go as it began. I stopped cold as a listener to that network.
turned off NPR 20 years ago. Turned off the TV after the last election. Done with corporate propaganda.
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I used to listen to NPR many years ago .I turned it on just a couple of years ago and was SCHOCKED.I thought, oh crap the Lefties got 'em.😢How come conservatives don't affect media?
Look it up Obama reinstated it
Exactly. The Leftist have always controlled NPR, but until 2016 hey at least PRETENDED to be nonpartisan.
It is spiritual Warfair! Youth are needing jobs no woke and broke !
Anyone who had listened to NPR for any period of time would be well aware shift and bias. I stopped listening years ago
We all did.....
Uri, after 25 years, suddenly figured it out. lol!
Thank you. I loved NPR until the shift. Haven't listened to it for years.
Had been a donor subscriber since 1981, gave thousands to NPR over the years, had to pull the plug about three years ago. When it comes on the car radio, I start hitting the presets like I"m swatting a fly. It's virtually unlistenable now.
@@oceania2385 concur. I donated in 2010 and now I have totally turned it off to the point I don’t know it’s even available.
I like that if I hear that Ladies Voice I start hitting the Pre-sets like I,m swatting a FLY ! Thats Good Man !
Podcasts my friend. Podcasts.
Someone in the news business once said “ if you can tell if I’m a Republican or Democrat. I’m not doing my job.” That should be the standard for ANY publicly funded news organization. I’ve seen many stories on RUclips where they shut off the comments.
YT is anti free speech.
The main problem is a two party system where every statement is politicized.
America has been a two party country for a long long time. But the mainstream media were not this divisively partisan before.
@@lovehusky02 Do some research about 19th century journalism.
Yeah I don't agreer with that. It shouldn't be about which party (team). It should be about the issue reported on.
Exactly. I turned NPR off 2 years ago, both in the car and in the kitchen.
The corporate media has zero credibility today. Zero
NPR is non-profit. What media of any sort aren’t corporate? Closed-circuit cable?
@@nicmart npr, by this 25 year vet’s admission, is completely biased.
Independent sub stacks and RUclips /rumble channels aren’t “corporate”
@@richbireckiand substacks and RUclips aren’t biased?
@@davidwatkins8016 are they corporate? Are they paid to LIE like MSNBC, CNN, and Google search which didn’t auto complete Donald Trump the other day?
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How do you know if a given RUclips or Rumble provider is incorporated? And what difference does it make. I’ve already said I recognized NOR as biased 40 years ago, but Berliner had no complaint then a long after.
I was an NPR contributing member until several years ago. At some point, NPR went completely off the tracks as far as I'm concerned. NPR used to be SUCH a pleasure to listen to. What did they call those things? "Driveway moments?" Not uncommonly, I sat in my driveway and even circled around town to listen to the finish of some of the stories - often narrated by Robert Seigel.
I can't stand to listen to NPR now. It's all just ultra-liberal schlock (in my opinion).
NPR is a total left wing joke in terms of any true journalism.
The USSR had state run media. Today, it seems that "The West" (USA, Canada, Western Europe, etc) are a collection of media-run states.
As a Canadian, I would always tune in to NPR while travelling in the USA. I did notice a big change in the tone from 2010 to 2019. Since 2020, It has come to the point where I can no longer listen to, watch or read any mainstream news sources.
There are great independent journalists that still believe in "classical liberal" values. I believe that these are the values that both liberals and conservatives share. Sadly, they won't be found in any mainstream media outlet.
Well said.
sadly, no free press with noble owners/ editors and unbiased reporters are now in the small minority and that is why so many people in America are becoming indoctrinated, blinded to truth and weak !
Except left and right DON'T agree with the principles of Classical liberalism equally. From Wikipedia:
"advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech. Classical liberalism, contrary to liberal branches like social liberalism, looks more negatively on social policies, taxation and the state involvement in the lives of individuals, and it advocates deregulation."
Now, do you see lib-dems agreeing with laissez-faire economics, deregulation, low taxation, looking negatively at social policies, and limited government? No, of course not. Classical Liberalism ideals has a home today with the Center-Right. Among Republicans.
as an Independent conservative in the 80s I always watched PBS and NPR. After their COVID and the BLM BS, I shut them off. I watch only alternative media now. screw the MSM.
I gave up on MSM for different reasons. They have restricted all truth in reporting the atrocities in Gaza....or avoided reporting anything at all. They all have Palestinian blood on their hands. I'm sick of AIPAC and big foriegn donars, running our government and MEDIA.
I read the mission statement of his replacement and I saw the coming of the decline of NPR into a leftwing mouthpiece. Its direction has turned to propaganda. It turns my stomach.
I liked NPR in the ‘80s, but I wondered why they were always disparaging Ronald Reagan. By the mid ‘90s I couldn’t stand the stupid segue music and the pious tone of voice. I would donate to my local station for local programming, but the whole lineup is NPR dreck.
I've listened to NPR several times over the years as I traveled the backroads of the US and noticed a recurring approach to their storytelling: 1) Introduce a reporter who they cast as some time of "expert" who tells the story of some hardship or perceived injustice incurred by some person or group. 2) Interview the aggrieved party to get their side of the story, thereby personalizing them and creating sympathy for them. 3) Define the wrong-doer(s) and how the wrong-doers (usually conservative/republican) don't care about anyone else but themselves and 4) Offer up a solution that generally aligns with liberal/democratic/socialist ideologies. Occasionally their "expert" will offer up a strawman argument on behalf of the wrong-doers which is dismissed immediately as disingenuous or incomplete. In the dozen or so stories I've heard them tell, they never ONCE engaged in a real debate and had a person outside of NPR present the opposite side of the story. Intentionally or not, they've become and echo-chamber of their own ideology.
Exactly. Thanks for the summary
Clear dissection of the common template used repeatedly. (thumb on the scale Vs objectivity)
Conservative radio is the same, except that the solution is always working hard and Jesus.
@@sebastianb.1926 the difference is that NPR is NATIONAL PUBLIC (as in everyone) radio. Now if it were National Liberal Radio …different story
A hero. I've loved listening to NPR since 2006, when I used to listen to CarTalk on Sundays with my dad. But I shut it off last year after multiple instances of clear and extreme bias, such as when they labeled those decrying Cardi B's WAP as engaging in "misogynoir."
Here is why I stopped listening to NPR during my morning commute... It seemed that in most news stories they would tie-in 'global warming' and 'rising sea levels', no matter how unrelated the story subject matter was to these environmental issues. It got overly annoying for me. And I have an Environmental Science Degree and having had worked in the Water Resources field for 20 years at that time in a gov job.
Ive seen first hand evidence of warming in Alaska, but they don't need to ring the climate change bell in every story that has nothing to do with environmental concerns... it just got ridiculous. They have an agenda.
Same except I would include anything LGBT-related.
For me, it was their coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. I watched it pretty closely and was astonished at how much they got wrong.
An inconvenient Truth
But how is climate change affecting trans people?
I agree and have become aware of this same connect the dots mentality, even when like you say it's unrelated!
He's exactly right. I'm a conservative and former journalist who has appreciated NPR's quality and listened for many years. It's stunning how leftist they've become and focused on identity politics. I used to see them as principled liberals, but now they're just pumping out all the leftist cliches.
Exactly!
The real question is not can NPR be saved, but SHOULD NPR be saved and the obvious answer in light of its comprehensive loss of journalistic integrity is NO. NPR should not be saved and should be defunded of any and all public money now.
NPR??? EVERY mainstream media bogus 'news' agency, especially their Zionist/Globalist owners whose main purpose is to psyop the American people... and all the other propaganda machines spreading lies across the planet.
I disagree. I think Public Radio is still an important and valuable service. I think what needs to be rescued is the intent with which it was created.
Publicly funded Radio is part of our system of checks and balances. It must be independent of political parties and independent of corporations' advertising dollars.
It's just lost its direction, and with it, eroded it's own power.
Agreed!
It's the taxpayer funding that's egregious with NPR, PBS. It renders their bias that more outrageous.
Deep State Sponsored Media!
Left wing terrorists
It’s communism in practice: state controlled media
American citizens are being robbed
40 years ago I commuted happily in the company of Bob Edwards, Susan Stamberg, Noah Adams, etc. and found it to be very trustworthy. Lament!
I listened to NPR for at least 15 years. Then all of the sudden instead of uplifting and interesting conversation, any and EVERY bad thing imaginable about our country was listed and dissected ALL OF THE TIME! That is when I turned off. Must be nearly 12-15 years ago.
You don't like bad news? That's how you judge a new outlet - do they conceal hard truths and help support your feeling that we live in the best of all possible worlds? You are nuts!
@@davidjgill4902 My friend, THE ONLY thing they did, all the shows not only the news!
You can also get some much needed(but fair) critique of NPR from Peter Boghossian in his series called "All Things Re-Considered" where he and guests go into detailed examples of how they have morphed into biased unhelpful misinformation.
Niiiiice
Definitely gonna check that out thank you.
Wait - there was never a “good spread”
at NPR - It has been almost ridiculously lefty for at least 10 years.
Bullshit. It's pure corporate. Always has been. NPR used to tone the money grubbing down a bit back in the day but now it's no N but all PR
Wrooooong🤡
Definitely liberal, but not hard left or very progressive like it is now.
Everything looks left when you are in a fascist cult.
Follow the money. Who are the advertisers? Who are the donators? Board members? This is where it starts.
Birch Society COKE BROTHERS
One of the weird things NPR has done in the last couple of years is that they won't say "pregnant women", instead they say "pregnant people."
Shame he didn't have the backbone to speak up 5 years ago. Yet he stayed quite whilst other journalists and citizens were cancelled and disparaged.
It’s because he is part of the “1srael can do no wrong” camp…then he saw NPR questioning 1sraeli war tactics, which he perceived as Anti-UknowWhat, and decided to leave for that reason. Of course, he’s gonna embellish it here. Disingenuous journalist.
answering
@velocirshtr3756 - Your conjectures show you are the one with a bias. Thanks for letting us know.
Please share with us all you have done to right the wrongs in journalism today so we can learn from your experience.
@@PaulBCohen I'm sure Barry Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger all agree with you, he was so brave standing up to surport them when they were attacked, but i suppose that's just my bias.
@@flowerdoyle3749 Oh, so you can't have an opinion, what a wonderful world you want. Only those permitted to make comments must be passed by the censors, everyone else must stay silent, as censors like you clearly know what's good for everyone else.
I’ve been a listener and financial supporter for 30 years.
The NPR management / hosts and 1A total obsession with skin color and LBGQ issues invading so many stories has been disheartening. Also the anti-Israeli bias is pervasive.
I am neither a liberal nor a conservative or a centrist. I was reared with the understanding that it is the problem that matters and that no single camp has a monopoly on ideas that work.
Often times neither camp has a solution.
Defund NPR and PBS immediately!
I disagree. I think Public Radio is still an important and valuable service. I think what needs to be rescued is the intent with which it was created.
Publicly funded Radio is part of our system of checks and balances. It must be independent of political parties and independent of corporations' advertising dollars.
It's just lost its direction, and with it, eroded it's own power.
Checks and balances are important and vital vor the power of us, ALL citizens. It would be nearsighted to give up our own power just because we don't like a perspective. What we, the citizenry must fight for is news that are just that. The news. We are all capable of forming our own opinions.
@@Anil18834 Public radio and TV once had a place and has moved far beyond any system of checks and balances. Coverage and viewpoints are overwhelmingly left leaning - from topics and programs, to interviews and news. It doesn’t operate in an independent manner and uses its “independence” as a crutch to continue with federal funding. To suggest it’s independent is dishonest and materially misleading.
This gentleman is scared to tell the truth not like Kennedy
The past few years have felt like I was surrounded by people who all joined a cult but I didn't get the memo. I'd point it out but that only seemed to make them think I was the heretic. I still feel like I'm living in a parallel universe with some family members. I just hope one day the kool aid will wear off and I'll get some kind of apology.
Don't hold your breath waiting for one. Especially from a card carrying cult member.
@@MelissaR784 😆 yeah....I know
During the Bush era, I listened to NPR on the radio every single day for at least two years.
Amy Goodman was one of my heroes.....
I got out of politics until Trump came along and so I checked to see what my favorite old radio station's take on his bid would be.
Turns out they were just as unhinged as the rest of the corporate press 🙄 😒
So that was very disappointing. Then of course they went full woke. Which of course makes honest reporting completely impossible.
NPR Died. They're just propaganda now.
When i heard NPR interviewing a mom who does porn cam in her home for extra money- and extolling it as a good way to earn money. I thought, oh, lovely. You hide it from your children now , but they will find it. And maybe when her daughter comes of age, she will think its a good idea too. I was DONE.
Maybe that was THE ONLY WAY she could feed her FAMILY 😢
@@KatrSayetFirst off, she sounded like suburban mom looking tp make a little extra cash (or maybe alot of extra cash , fast and easy too) There are other ways to make money.
Feeding the porn machine does immeasurable damage to ones spiritual life. To struggle HONORABLY creates an amazing human being, one her children can look up to and emulate .I've known very poor people who have kept their moral values. At the end of thier lives,they become the true Elders of their community , sterling souls who used to be the moral bedrocks of a society.
But the left no longer believes we even have a soul to develop. Or that the tried and true values of our ancestors are worth anything. "If it feels good, do it." Any fetish, any pleasure, any cheap thrill- why not ? I am watching my society break down as the CHARACTOR of each individual does. It is the end result of a society based on consumerism and hedonism.
And lose your self esteem on the process? Contribute to the pernicious and evil rise in pornography engulfing society? There must be better ways to make a living. And I agree that in the end it will devastate her children. I used to listen to NPR for years especially as I cooked dinner or was in the car. Now I occasionally tune in but literally I last about five minutes before grimacing and switching it off.
I was a lifetime listener, starting in high school and college. I quit listening a few years ago as I can hear the daily bias. Thanks for confirming what a lot of us knew to be true.
Excellent insight that news and opinion have merged.
To the extent that opinion becomes so all consuming that certain news won’t even be reported.
Don’t forget feelings.
God Bless you for telling us the truth , don’t ever stop we need to hear all this information 🙏🙏
I loved NPR, always on on my commute. When they went left, I turned it off.
Around 2003, I quit listening to NPR because it started sounding like MSNBC but with soft music playing in the background.
I miss Click and Clack. They were so funny.
They don’t call it National Propaganda Radio for nothin. Turned it off years ago, don’t miss it.
I stopped listening to Public Radio in the U.S. which I loved in about 2018 when I started noticing a distinct left wing bias. For instance a reporter doing a story about a black man attacking an Asian person followed up the report with “but remember that most people that commit attacks on Asian people are white.” For one thing I don’t think this is true and for another thing it’s completely irrelevant to the story. That’s not reporting that’s political advocacy. And the number of times I heard them soft pedaling ANTIFA and praising Socialism was absolutely infuriating. Things are always Far Right but never Far Left. Utter hypocrisy.
He has been sleeping. More than 10 years ago David Mamet called them National Palestine Radio.
So you're pro genocide ?
Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) is LITERALLY MUSLIM PUBLIC RELATIONS
Haha! Hadn’t heard that.
NPR interviews people from the Atlantic Council who are ex CIA! That is a fact, and that is all you need to know!!
I was an avid follower and donator of NPR for decades, and I boycotted them one year ago.
I've listened to NPR since 1979 when I started my university education. Now I can't stand the myopic tunnel vision of the stories. I have turned it off.
NPR was promoting the lbgtbq+ life style like it needed to be accepted by all people. That's when i stopped listening.
NPR must get giant corporate donors to offset the loss of listeners due to the bias issues-and the other MSM companies get their advertising dollars from the same corporate donors. This is why they are all essentially working for the government-whose officials work for the corporate campaign dollars. It’s a nasty system that serves itself. Not the citizens.
Excellent And Well Thought Out 👍👍😊❤️❤️
DEFUND NPR. THEY DON'T DESERVE OUR TAX DOLLARS.
I turned NPR off many years ago. Now that Katherine Maher is in charge it is truly a toilet of lies and deliberate deceit. Truly no virtue there.
Thanks for taking the time to confirm what we’ve known for years.
Given what happened to Wikipedia in the past 5+ years, it didn't take a lot of insight to realize she was a radical opposed to free speech in service to the hard left message
Wikipedia always had a slight left wing bias, but since 2018-19ish it's really radicalized toward the far-left.
Her mission statement reveals her bias.
Sorry but I am far left libertarian, in camp with people like Chomsky, and the authoritarian left doesn't represent me at all. I live inner city and saw the horrors Fauci and company put HIV patients through in the name of science, and its honestly not that different from the way pharma has treated minorities as guinea pigs throughout recent history.
We shut NPR down around 2005. Garbage now. Same for Reader's Digest, National Geographic and Smithsonian Magazine. Utter, political garbage.
YES. Slowly National Geographic became propaganda for progressive causes.
I stopped NPR about 10 years ago, they re sad
NPR tip toes on covering the news and geopolitical events. It’s too afraid to do blunt and risk offending the corporate donors. Fact.
Cover Trump as a President and you show the world that they've been mislead about him.
Pray for Trump. Vote Trump and Vance 2024!!!
This man is a hero! May others in the media follow his lead in courage and truth telling.
And may God bless him for his honesty.
I was fortunate to see the handwriting on the wall 10 years ago. Common sense , factual information and non bias left NPR years ago.
Why won’t NPR interview RFK Jr.? I’m so tired of hearing how IMPARTIAL they claim to be during donation time
Don't hold your breath, Uri, you're the only one who left. The new CEO's settling in nicely, I suspect.
She's worse.
Thanks for the honesty. It has been obvious for a long time.
Thank you for coming forward. I used to call myself a right leaning moderate (fiscal conservative/social moderate) but now that view can’t survive in the current environment. So sad, it’s big money with an agenda.
I quit watching NPR quite some time ago. I worked at a major university and quite a little of that time was spent at our NPR broadcasting building and watch the atmosphere in the building gradually disintegrate into what it is today NPR promotes and produces some of the most indoctrinated programs for young children for sublimable mind, ordering acceptance of the NPR Gay propaganda in a camouflage is itself as being an open minded, but it’s not it’s exactly like the mainstream propaganda medium so I turned it off right along with commercial television. The best thing you could do for your family mainly children is get rid of Main stream propaganda news. Turn it off for your children’s sake God save this nation
I cut NPR 5 years ago and never looked back 🚨🚨🚨 NEXT 👉
Our family was a regular donor to NPR. We noticed the editorial changes a few years ago. NPR had become despicably biased. Some powerful interests groups have obviously gained control.
We don't watch it anymore.
Who is controlling NPR?
I like concrete examples of the problems with NPR news coverage so here is an example:
During the 2010-2019 period, NPR news programs had numerous segments concerning the boom in U.S. oil production due to fracking (tight or shale oil). The news programs came across as cheerleaders for the U.S. oil and gas industry. They interviewed numerous promoters of the fracking industry and it sounded like the supply of oil due to fracking was infinite or nearly infinite. There were prominent petroleum geologists who were basically saying "Let's chill a bit here on the infinite oil thing" but certainly they were never interviewed. Now you can say, "but the U.S. set an oil production record last year (2023) at 12.927 mb/d so what's the problem? The problem is that the industry has been milking the shale plays hard and there is now a serious problem for the future.
First, ~70% of U.S. oil production now comes from 5 tight oil (shale) plays: Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, Bakken, Anadarko and Niobrara. 90% of the tight oil production comes from the first three plays. Here is what an oil executive said recently:
"Shale will likely tip over in five years, and US production will be down 20 to 30% quickly. When it does-this feels like watching the steam roller scene in Austin Powers. Oil prices in the late 2020s will be something to behold.”
An industry executive responding to a poll by the Dallas Fed;
Here is what Art Berman, a prominent petroleum geologist, stated recently after studying the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford and Bakken:
"The implications of this Bakken study and recent evaluations of the Permian and Eagle Ford plays are clear-this is the beginning of the end for the tight oil plays."
Most tight oil well production occurs in the fist two years of production. What that means is that wells have to be added rapidly to maintain or increase production. What is happening is that the "sweet spots" in the shale plays are being saturated with wells. Once they are fully saturated, oil production will decline.
In 1970, conventional U.S. oil production was a little under 10 mb/d and that didn't included northern Alaskan oil fields. That production, including northern Alaska, is now down to about 2 mb/d. Production can decline quite rapidly after a peak. Take the example of the U.K. Production peaked in the U.K. in 1999 and its now down over 75%. The problem is that there are no fruitful areas to drill in the U.K.
These are important issues that you won't hear about on NPR.
Wow. Well done. and thanks for the education. Makes Sense. The oil and GAS industry obtained and installed the piping rights for natural gas along with the fracking. The NG is the essential and critical element for the hydrogen economy. The hydrogen hubs are being built now. $7 - $8 billion was just (this past year from the green new deal) allotted for them. You can google the locations of the hubs.
So. Oil will skyrocket. And the gas industry will come in (with whatever administration is in office) as the white night to rescue the country. Except they'll have a all gas production and contracts (along with politicians that sold us out). This started under Bush 2 (oil and gas) and was consumated this past year with public dollars (biden-harris). Add to that the backdoor deals for the semi conductor and battery plants. Both sides are in on the game. They've sold the country and the people out, man. wake up.
Think the raise in oil and gas prices in late 2020, has more to do with signing back up with the Paris Climate Agreement.
why did it take him sooo long to reveal this?! I have been calling this out for years!!
I too noticed NPR's shift toward race, class, gender, race, class, gender, ad nauseam, years ago. Many times lately I've tuned into my local NPR station at several times in a single day and what did I hear? Race, class, slavery, discrimination, gender, race, class, etc. Even on a show about food and recipes. On a food show! Race, slavery on a food show!!
It's hard for any individual or organization to see themselves as they really are and NPR is no exception. I have supported NPR financially for years but they've gone too woke for me.
Mr. Berliner makes a most important point: when advocating any position whatever, one must consider the cost, consider the alternatives. Gee, looking at a question from multiple angles? Considering pros and cons? What an idea! Only about two thousand years old. Bravo for Mr. Berliner!! He is a ray of light in the current storm of extremism and foolishness by both the right and the left.
For the reasons mentioned in this talk, among many more, I'm a supporter of RFK Jr. In random order, and in simple terms, here's some of my reasons for supporting RFK Jr...
-genuinely wants to heal the 'culture war' divide in our country, and he has the ability to, being liked by many different 'types' of people from across the spectrum of issues and ideas, who are tired of the 2-party duopoly
-has integrity, has courage, truth seeker in general, thinks for himself (not a DNC/RNC puppet)
-incorruptible, cannot be bought or bullied
-thoughtful and introspective, deeply considers problems and possible solutions
-vocal about the corruption of 'Citizens United' and the power of the big private money controlling government
-vocal about putting an end to corporate capture over government (Pharma, banks, oil, big AG, military industrial complex)
-wants to get us out of 'forever wars' and to pull back on and expose the corruption within the military industrial complex
-wants to pull back NATO and resolve the Ukraine war via negotiations with Putin, rather than perpetuating the escalation (which could truly lead to the most dire outcome imaginable)
-wants to bring the military budget back to 'Eisenhower minimum' and to instead invest that money in making us strong at home and in correcting our outrageous debt and growing inflation
-dedicated to rebuilding the Middle Class in our country
-dedicated to creating our country as a moral exemplar and economic force in the world, rather than as a militaristic bully
-vocal about the dishonesty and agendas of commercial media
-wants to abolish all pharmaceutical advertisements on television (this has major influence on the 'news' narratives)
-wants to keep the pharmaceutical industry honest with safety testing, transparency, etc
-wants to get rid of government assist crony capitalism and subsidies for big ag, oil, etc
-advocate for civil liberties
-vocally against censorship (will pardon Snowden and Assange on 'day 1')
-against mandates and police state-like policies
-classical liberal sensibilities with respect of others (without the 'woke' or fake identity politics)
-vocal commitment to transparency regarding FBI, CIA, NSA over-stepping and out-stepping
-would put the federal budget on blockchain to be fully transparent for all citizens
-passionate about environmental and ecological concerns
-passionate about investing in regenerative farming practice
-passionate about cleaning our food supply and exposing the unhealthy ingredients in processed 'foods'
-wants to bring preventative health more into public discourse; nutrition, exercise, etc
-will immediately close the border (this is not some republican scare issue, it is a very major issue - for many reasons)
-will send the necessary Asylum Judges to the border to expedite the process for legal migrants
-has an excellent plan to make homes affordable for all, including a program that backs mortgages at 3% and a tax structure to keep Black Rock from continuing to buy everyone out (this also will bring rent costs down dramatically)
-due to his family/background, he's well-learned from the inside of the various power structures
-due to his decades as an attorney successfully taking on major corporations, as well as government regulatory corruption, he is exceptionally well-suited for taking on the myriad of corrupt corporate capture over our government
*I wrote the list above many months before Oct 7, 2023. I should add, especially directed towards my brothers and sisters of the populist 'left' and populist 'right', 'progressives', 'libertarians', and people who are just antiwar, in general...
-RFK Jr. is in support of Israel (as am I). However, this in no way means he isn't also in support of helping the innocent people within Gaza. RFK Jr. has always been very aware of the conditions for the people within Gaza, and is especially aware of, and feels deep heartache for, the Hell they are living in now. He is a person who, as President, would do all he could to help seek lasting peace and prosperity for all in the region
-although RFK Jr. is a supporter of Israel, he is not a fan of Netanyahu, and has said repeatedly that he would not be writing him a blank check with American dollars to do with as he wishes
-there is no one who would fight harder or more tirelessly to reach out to everyone involved, as well as to leaders outside of the region, to try to negotiate and implement a sustainable peaceful solution for both the Israelis and the Palestinians. RFK Jr. would bring many ideas and a commitment to approaching the problem there from several different angles, and involving several other players. In fact, he would have been doing this before Oct. 7. (Simply yelling 'apartheid', 'genocide', etc is not in service of an actual solution - ask Hamas)
-and unlike anyone from the 2 major parties who supports Israel, RFK Jr. would never be lead by the corrupt (and disgusting) sheer financial interests of the Military Industrial Complex when it comes to any of America's foreign policy; including with Israel
Yes, yes, and yes. He would have been the PERFECT Dem candidate. I believe he would have won many Trump followers too. I believe he would win. Instead, ONCE AGAIN, forced to chose between two evils because the machine dictates who we get to vote for..
When I read Sores contributed to NPR during the 2020 election, I no longer listened.
Hungary banned him so long ago for a reason ! Soros is buying souls and ruining societies normals. Sinful and youth work ethics need brought back . Respect too !
I tried listening to NPR 30 years ago. It was blatantly liberal. It happens on both sides, but especially on the progressive side, that blatantly biased people really believe they are giving "fair" treatment to all sides when they aren't.
NPR used to be my standard of excellence in journalism
Listened to NPR for years. Donated to them for several years. I knew perfectly well that they were further left than I was but the stories were good and it seemed reasonably balanced. That stopped over time and the shift to progressive views and outright hostility toward conservative ideas. There was almost no story that didn’t show blatant bias in the questions. It is truly painful to me that a once solid source has gone so far off the rails. It is anything but liberal. Stopped listening long before the Trump insanity.
I miss the days when the news were just the news, with careful word choices to avoid presenting bias. I'm capable of formulating my own opinions, thank you.
Also, I remeber in the early 2000s, when NPR used to interview 3, or at least 2 different knowledgeable people with different, well developed perspectives on a particular topic. That is gone. Back then, all I needed to do was to compare 2 news sources, one of them often international for a wider perspective.
Now, I have to go through 5, sometimes 8 news sources to research a particular topic and feel satisfied that I'm well informed.
Ery crucial discussion. Thx
About 7 years ago I heard Terry Gross interviewing the SPLC. She was a fawning fan girl at a time SPLC had widely been shown as a LW activist group.
Cannot stand her.
Thank you for exposing the corruption.
I renamed it several years ago: National Propaganda Radio, aka National Petroleum Radio. Thanks to Berliner for having the integrity and courage to speak out.
National Propaganda Radio has been unlistable for some time they aren't even good of their lies.
NPR is absolutely comical. Everytime i turn the station to NPR there is a woman either crying, complaining or talking nonsense. That is the crux of their programming.
🤦♂️fake
@@asynchronicity Yes. NPR is fake news.
I decided to turn off NPR in 1995 when it refused to discipline the radical takeover of our local public (NPR) radio station.
I used to listen Harrison Keillor (Lake Wobegone). It was low key mid west humor, perfect to listen to while working in the garage.
So obvious..havent listened for 20 yrs
Their down fall wasn't 10 years ago...more like 20
NPR. National Propaganda Radio
Turned it off in 2016 over the biased election coverage. NPR got me through a lot of miles when I traveled for work in the early 2000s. It used to be to be great.
brilliant this is one of the sober voices we have been sore to hear.
Radio for smart people who care.
If you don’t listen you’re not smart
and you don’t care.
NPR is a bunch of uninformed activist. I hope the Republicans can eliminate all federal funding!
Used to love NPR, but haven’t listened to it in over 20 years.
NPR - Not Particularly Reliable.
The federal government needs to stop funding NPR.
Truth spoken!
So grateful that someone like an editor could come forward and tell the truth about what NPR has become. I listened to it for 30 years(?) and my children were brought up on it. When I started to question it and then stop listening they didn’t understand and then it became a pivot point for the fact I was doubting the political.policies and they weren’t . So now maybe we can have some talking points to get started in understanding.❤
I used to listen to NPR every day on my way to work. I would often change the station when it got off on some biased tangent. I stopped listening all together during the pandemic. If things have only gotten worse I can only imagine how bad it has become. Imagination will have to suffice because I really can't tolerate it anymore.
I grew up listening to NPR, in a very conservative home back in the 80’s 90’s. NPR has changed significantly for the worse. The CEO is a problem
“Opinion has morphed into news”. Great insight.
This guy interviews very good
I disagree. He brought up Katherine Maher and did not even have her quotes to hand.
Can't he at least prepare?
Years ago, I used to tune in to NPR all the time, but they became progressively, Progressive. It was obvious, and progressively propagandistic. I left it behind as my college years receded into the past.
Thanks for this one. It’s not easy giving up on your tribe when they wander astray. It takes courage
I listened to NPR daily for about 30 years. As Mr. Berliner says, it always leaned left, but rarely in an offensive or overdone way. Starting in 2020 I began noticing a definite very strong shift toward the progressive, even far-left viewpoint.. It became easy to predict the way a story would go as it began. I stopped cold as a listener to that network.
What he says is so true.