Utopia Talk / Politics / NPR is trash. Defund NPR.

Rugian Member	Tue Jul 20 15:05:18 From Matt Taibbi: "[Recently, NPR']s monomaniacal focus on “race and sexuality issues” has become an industry in-joke. For at least a year especially, listening to NPR has been like being pinned in wrestling beyond the three-count. Everything is about race or gender, and you can’t make it stop. Conservatives have always hated NPR, but in the last year I hear more and more politically progressive people, in the media, talking about the station as a kind of mass torture experiment, one that makes the most patient and sensible people want to drive off the road in anguish. A brief list of just a few recent NPR reports: -“Billie Eilish Says She Is Sorry After TikTok Video Shows Her Mouthing A Racist Slur.” Pop star caught on tape using the word “chink” when she was “13 or 14 years old” triggers international outrage and expenditure of U.S. national media funding. -“Black TikTok Creators Are On Strike To Protest A Lack Of Credit For Their Work.” White TikTok users dance to Nicky Minaj lyrics like, “I'm a f****** Black Barbie. Pretty face, perfect body,” kicking off “a debate about cultural appropriation on the app.” -“Geocaching While Black: Outdoor Pastime Reveals Racism And Bias.” Area man who plays GPS-based treasure hunt game requiring forays into remote places and private property describes “horrifying” experience of people asking what he’s doing. -“Broadway Is Reopening This Fall, And Every New Play Is By A Black Writer.” All seven new plays being written by black writers is “a step toward progress,” but critics “will be watching Broadway's next moves” to make sure “momentum” continues. -“She Struggled To Reclaim Her Indigenous Name. She Hopes Others Have It Easier.” It took Cold Lake First Nations member Danita Bilozaze nine whole months to change her name to reflect her Indigenous identity. -“Tom Hanks Is A Non-Racist. It's Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist.” Tom Hanks pushing for more widespread teaching of the Tulsa massacre doesn’t change the fact that he’s built a career playing “white men ‘doing the right thing,’” NPR complains. Mixed in with Ibram Kendi recommendations for children’s books, instructions on how to “decolonize your bookshelf” and “talk to your parents about racism” (even if your parents are an interracial couple), and important dispatches from the war on complacency like “Monuments And Teams Have Changed Names As America Reckons With Racism, Birds Are Next,” “National” Public Radio in the last year has committed itself to a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of the most moralizing, tendentious, humor-deprived, jargon-obsessed segment of American society." http://taibbi.substack.com/p/nprs-brilliant-self-own I knew NPR was bad, but holy shit. This is our tax dollars at work. President Trump should defend these idiots as soon as he remakes the White House in 2025 (or this August).
Habebe Member	Tue Jul 20 15:54:21 Tom Hanks is our generations Hitlerx10. Also, syrup is racist.
Hrothgar Member	Wed Jul 21 14:18:53 http://www.npr.org/ Wow. So terribl.... wait, this is way better layout than CNN or Fox or anyone else. And actually gives stories with both sides of contentious issues. No wonder the extremists hate it.
habebe Member	Thu Jul 22 00:01:51 Hrothgar, In all fairness they rarely do give both sides anymore and lean heavy left.
Cherub Cow Member	Thu Jul 22 00:49:38 Yep, if you believe this bias reporting agency (which others have called slightly left-leaning), NPR "skews left", is "reliable for news", but is "high in analysis/opinion content": http://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/ Technically, it *is* less biased than CNN and Fox, but it's still biased left.
Dukhat Member	Thu Jul 22 10:58:59 So if it leans slightly to the left at all, then its worthless. But if it leans to the right at all, still news! Cherub logic for you. No wonder he believes in so many conspiracy theories.
patom Member	Thu Jul 22 11:10:19
patom Member	Thu Jul 22 11:11:07 If it isn't blatantly lying about everything then it must be trash.
Cherub Cow Member	Thu Jul 22 13:23:32 [Dukhat]: "So if it leans slightly to the left at all, then its worthless. But if it leans to the right at all, still news!" Please explain how you derived such completely detached-from-reality bullshit from what I actually said. To preemptively explain it to your tiny mind: I pointed out that the media bias chart may be slightly left-leaning so that people would know that it was probably giving NPR a fair shake in its assessment. At no point did I excuse right-leaning sources. Get your head out of your ass.
Dukhat Member	Thu Jul 22 15:53:46 Good to know. Now if you would stop spreading conspiracy theories, that'd be great. God knows, I wish the DNC was actually competent at least but you seem to think they planned 9/11 and also the spread of AIDS.
Wrath of Orion Member	Fri Jul 23 02:09:29 CC's spiral into delusional retardation is about as bad as Rugian's.
Cherub Cow Member	Fri Jul 23 03:26:59 Nice claim, WoO — as usual, with no evidence to back it, only your hopeless self-assurance that your mind is still as functional as it was when you impressed comatose teachers partially awake when you were thirteen. .. [Dukhat]: "Good to know. Now if you would stop spreading conspiracy theories, that'd be great." Thank you for backing down from your absurd stupidities. Now, which "conspiracy theories" do you claim that I've spread? I'll give you a hint: every claim I make has substantial sourcing attached to it. Don't just disappear on this again. Remember the last time you claimed I was talking in conspiracy theories and it turned out that every bullet point was from a real story that you, in your immense ignorance, simply were unaware? The DNC's suppression of the Green Party comes to mind. You had no fucking clue.
Forwyn Member	Fri Jul 23 18:44:43 Making a totally innocuous and uncontroversial statement (with a source) about media leanings is now delusional retardation and a conspiracy theory. LOL
Habebe Member	Wed Jul 28 12:57:05 Now, PBS is canceling Arthur! Wtf
Rugian Member	Thu Jul 29 10:53:43 NPR formally abandons its neutrality guidelines, now allows its journalists to engage in certain forms of activism: http://www...lists-to-demonstrate-sometimes The two acceptable instances provided were BLM and gay pride rallies. Such a trash organization. Biased leftist media is bad enough, but if they want to peddle this shit they should do it in the private sector, not with our tax dollars.
Habebe Member	Thu Jul 29 11:05:56 ^ Yeah, not sure why tax dollars pay for a DNC propaganda org. Can anyone name ONE regular correspondent that isn't a DNC shill?
shannon Member	Sat Jul 31 15:33:13 Defund the ABC, BBC and CBC, NZBC too. All far left propaganda outlets, funded by the State in CANZUK.
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