I’ve been a somewhat regular NPR listener for years
It of course carries from one program or station to another but my general impression is that, no surprise, nearly everyone involved in NPR is pretty solidly liberal.
But they bend over backwards so far trying to be impartial that it almost becomes a parody sometimes.
I remember one time, I’m pretty sure it was around the time of the unite the right thing, I was listening to some segment where they had some neonazi piece of shit on, I think it may have been Richard Spencer
And while it was technically a really good and informative interview, it burned me up that they just weren’t tearing into this piece of crap.
And to make matters worse, Nazi boy was really confident and well-spoken, and whoever they brought in to argue the other side, some lady from a university or something, simply wasn’t. If I weren’t listening to the actual words coming out of their mouths I would’ve gotten the impression that he was someone who really had his shit together, and she was some clueless dip shit they bribed into the studio by offering her free kombucha or something.
It was like they went out of their way to make it seem like maybe this guy had a point worth listening too and didn’t deserve to just be taken out back of the studio and shot.
Which is exactly why the far right hate them so much.
Yep. My country just had an election and our far-right party promised to destroy our public broadcaster if elected. It would have left us with nothing but American bullshit and billionaire-owned media. Thankfully, they lost. But just by a hair.
I love PBS and I used to live NPR until they spent all of 2024 sane-washing Trump and endlessly bashing Biden. When Trump was on stage all but announcing his plans to become a Dictator, NPR was running a week long segment on how old and frail Biden was.
NPR markets themselves as unbiased public media, but take off the mask (and follow the money) and you’ll quickly learn that its a news org for Neoliberal business leaders and noone else.
when the truth goes aginst the right, the right takes aim at the sources of truth. For example: trump and congress pass the big bill adding trillions to the national debt, tax cuts for the rich and taking away medicare for millions…defund NPR and PBS so they cannot talk about the emprical facts of this awful legislation
