Yeap… I can barely listen to npr anymore. Their interviewing process is basically just a platform for fascist to make wild claims without any sort of actual pushback. At most at the end of the segment the host will make a mild rebuttal about one aspect of their interview. But most of the time it’s just “well that’s all the time we have”.
There’s no pushback or fact checking, or even giving equal time to an opposing view. They should be hammering every inaccurate claim made by these assholes. If there isn’t enough time in your programming to do so, then you shouldn’t have these liars on your show to begin with.
Journalism is dead, and it’s because the whole field is a walled garden where the only people who can afford to get their foot in the door or take the unpaid internships are nepo babies and trust fund kids, and those people don’t have backbones.
Yeah, they’re probably the best large American news reporting organization left, but they are far far far from perfect and their biggest problem is they try to normalize and sanitize everything the United States does
I have listened to dozens of stories on climate change, pollution, etc. over the years. I mean look up “NPR fossil fuels” and you’ll see pages upon pages of critical, factual reporting. I’m not sure they’re beholden to the fossil fuel industry - have any more info?
Sure they cover climate change, just like other commercial outlets – but the coverage is extremely milquetoast (“stressed about climate change? Write a letter to the Earth!”). That is what their sponsorship dollars are buying.
And in matters of foreign policy especially, public broadcasting has been extremely supportive of military mis-adventures in oil-rich countries. NPR lost a lot of support among totebaggers over their Iraq war coverage.
It’s not the understood perspective. Its the descriptions. Their subtext is always “it’s fine, let them [insert horror action here]”
So they’ll say “Critics say climate nearing point-of-no-return”.
I actually remember the first time I ever heard the news refer to “an environmentalist”. Like - . . . We all live in the environment, so why single out people for . . why are they singling them out?
I mean, I agree that it’s stupid to not be an environmentalist, but it sounds like you’re criticizing NPR for correctly using the english language and adhering to journalistic practices
Finally NPR is showing a little backbone when it directly affects them.
Love me some NPR but they have been sane washing orange mussolini for years.
Janine Jackson on Counterspin seems like the last sane media commentator.
Yeap… I can barely listen to npr anymore. Their interviewing process is basically just a platform for fascist to make wild claims without any sort of actual pushback. At most at the end of the segment the host will make a mild rebuttal about one aspect of their interview. But most of the time it’s just “well that’s all the time we have”.
There’s no pushback or fact checking, or even giving equal time to an opposing view. They should be hammering every inaccurate claim made by these assholes. If there isn’t enough time in your programming to do so, then you shouldn’t have these liars on your show to begin with.
Journalism is dead, and it’s because the whole field is a walled garden where the only people who can afford to get their foot in the door or take the unpaid internships are nepo babies and trust fund kids, and those people don’t have backbones.
“Now listen to this long musical interlude for no fucking reason at all”.
They don’t call it Nice Polite Republicans for nothing.
Yeah, they’re probably the best large American news reporting organization left, but they are far far far from perfect and their biggest problem is they try to normalize and sanitize everything the United States does
Well, they were partially funded by the US government and corporate sponsorships. That introduces some pro-US and pro-corporate bias.
As opposed to the other news sources in the country which are pure pro-corporate bias.
A lot of funding is from the fossil fuel industry (some call it National Petroleum Radio).
I have listened to dozens of stories on climate change, pollution, etc. over the years. I mean look up “NPR fossil fuels” and you’ll see pages upon pages of critical, factual reporting. I’m not sure they’re beholden to the fossil fuel industry - have any more info?
Sure they cover climate change, just like other commercial outlets – but the coverage is extremely milquetoast (“stressed about climate change? Write a letter to the Earth!”). That is what their sponsorship dollars are buying.
And in matters of foreign policy especially, public broadcasting has been extremely supportive of military mis-adventures in oil-rich countries. NPR lost a lot of support among totebaggers over their Iraq war coverage.
It’s not the understood perspective. Its the descriptions. Their subtext is always “it’s fine, let them [insert horror action here]”
So they’ll say “Critics say climate nearing point-of-no-return”.
I actually remember the first time I ever heard the news refer to “an environmentalist”. Like - . . . We all live in the environment, so why single out people for . . why are they singling them out?
NPR is highly critical of [insert atrocity here]. I doubt you can find an example where they’re not.
That’s just how headlines work. “Experts say X,” “Politician says Y” – that’s inoffensive.
Environmentalist is a well-understood term with meaning. There are people who are not environmentalists. Yeah it is ridiculous that anyone isn’t
Everyone was an environmentalist until they coined the term.
They could have coined something to mean anti-environment before that but they didn’t. I wonder why.
(Not that NPR coined it. That’s too bold for them)
I mean, I agree that it’s stupid to not be an environmentalist, but it sounds like you’re criticizing NPR for correctly using the english language and adhering to journalistic practices
And Geedubz for 8 more. And Bush the 1. And Ronnie Raygun.
Shit, they got so thouroughly pwned after 9/11, I noped out then.
I mean, it’s all you get in a small town, but it hasn’t been really left in forever and a day.