Ah NPR, before 2016 I was happy to support them, sure they had some wacky stuff on air, but they had some amazing programming. But since 2016 they have lost their mind. NPR was left, but in last several years, they went crazy woke, literary every episode became focused on some woke topic, be it DEI, obesity acceptance, how xyz topic is racist, how burning down your local businesses is great, but when those same businesses don't reopen, owners are racists. Not to forget that they became literal propaganda arm of DNC, when on multiple occasions refused to air relevant news about corruption in Democratic Party, best example infamous Laptop of Hunter Biden and NPR calling it Russian Hoax and not relevant.
Today I am almost ashamed to admit that I supported them for years.
"Right-wing media is in trouble, too. Traffic to top conservative sites is down 40 percent. (The Atlantic)"
Could it be that conservatives value "We report, you decide" - and will seek it out?
I don't read The Free Press because it always agrees with me, or because it makes me comfortable. I read it because I never learned anything from people who agree with me. (Although, admittedly, I am a slow learner.)
The list of cities with impressive declines in homicides is most revealing for the locations not covered; Chicago, NYC, L.A. , D.C. et.al. Once again, lies, damn lies and statistics.
I have to slap myself. I’m in a new world where I actually agree with Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat I assumed would be just another liberal fool, but who has turned out to have an actual moral compass.
He’s right; why DOESN’T the United States stand strong with Israel? Iran for the first time directly attacked them with a barrage of 350 drones and cruise missiles. If this is not a casus belli then nothing is.
What if Iran had fired those weapons at America… would we just shrug, and say “welp, we don’t want a dangerous escalation so we’ll just pretend we didn’t see that, and hope it doesn’t happen again!”
"How Did the War Begin? With Iran’s Appeasers in Washington". Thanks for making is so binary and simple for us Ollie. For a minute, I thought you might actually dig into the complexities of the violence and abuses by both Muslims & Jews over the past decades and that there doesn't seem to be any resolution that doesn't end up costing thousands more lives and tens of billions more from the US taxpayers. But now we know it was just appeasers in DC. Thank goodness it's not something else.
Uri Berliner's interview was outstanding, but the only surprise to the majority us, that NPR has been coopted by progressive liberals for decades, was that he was actually saying it out loud. If I'm a betting man, he's polishing up his resume as we speak. As for Katherine Maher......well it takes about half a second on Google to see that she's a progressive left wing lunatic. So basically now that she's at the helm, NPR will will continue to operate as a psychopathic cult.....until it goes tits up because they're last 3 listeners committed hari kari when Trump or Kennedy get elected.
Wow, crime is dropping rapidly, just in time for an election. You heard it here first! Now brace yourself for NYTCNNWSJWaPo stories explaining how people don’t feel safer despite the good statistics about reduced crime.
That Golden Bachelor thing is priceless. No, it doesn’t say anything other than people who go on reality shows are fame whores and gee ya think it was all scripted?
Oliie Wiseman should consider changing his last name, or at least have his "editor card" revoked. Look closely at that murder rate chart. The heading reads "Year to date murder declines" now Look at the footnote - it cites data from March 31st to April 12th, a THIRTEEN DAY PERIOD that certainly is not "year to date" or even close.
And don't forget that the vast majority of murders that occur in ANY city happens during the summer months (omitted)
and to make this lie by omission even worse, where is New York, LA, Chicago, St Louis ? (you know, the murder capitals of the US).
Next debate: should America be colorblind ( Coleman Hughes) or anti racist ( X Kendi)? Other debaters could include Wilfred Reilly and Coates or diangelo. Bring it on Bari.
I was really hoping for more substantial coverage of Iran's attack. We're already well aware of the Democrats' coddling of Iran. We know what happened in the past. We need to know what is happening--and what is likely to happen--at this point.
Although whistle-blower Uri Berliner doesn't believe that defunding NPR is the way to change its biased reporting, there is a public and private movement underway to do just that. Defunding begins the house-cleaning that needs to be done. After that, there can be some debate to do away with NPR altogether. Personally, I think it might be missed, but not long.
I sent the NPR interview to 3 people I know who are regular listeners - when you get into their cars that’s the station that comes on. One recipient replied that his take was 70% left and 30% center. The other 2 didn’t respond which I took to mean they were happy with that organization being so left wing. And that may be why it is that way - the people who listen want to hear only left wing views.
Homicides in U.S. cities: Maybe since last year, but according to John R Lott Jr. ( Crime Prevention Research Center, www.crimeresearch.org ), " the murder rate is still 7.4% above the rate in 2019, before the defund the police efforts started. Yes, the murder rate has declined, but it is still significantly worse than before the policing reforms started."
Now, there is a place for journalism that's coming from a particular perspective. Not all media has to be neutral and do its best to be unbiased. That's what you get from Vox (which I enjoyed reading before Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein left before it went cuckoo bananas). That's what you get from reason.com. And frankly that's what you get from the Free Press (it definitely comes from a particular perspective and is also not being reported from a purely neutral perspective, nor would I want it to be). There's a place from journalistic commentary coming from a particular perspective, so long as the reader understands what that perspective is.
However, I think a publicly funded news outlet should be held to a different standard. NPR shouldn't be fulfilling the same role as Vox or Slate or reason.com.
The names of the people in power that made the decision to hire Katherine Maher should be made public and held accountable. They unquestionably sought out a person to lead NPR with the beliefs they knew she held. They got exactly what they were seeking.
Ah NPR, before 2016 I was happy to support them, sure they had some wacky stuff on air, but they had some amazing programming. But since 2016 they have lost their mind. NPR was left, but in last several years, they went crazy woke, literary every episode became focused on some woke topic, be it DEI, obesity acceptance, how xyz topic is racist, how burning down your local businesses is great, but when those same businesses don't reopen, owners are racists. Not to forget that they became literal propaganda arm of DNC, when on multiple occasions refused to air relevant news about corruption in Democratic Party, best example infamous Laptop of Hunter Biden and NPR calling it Russian Hoax and not relevant.
Today I am almost ashamed to admit that I supported them for years.
"Right-wing media is in trouble, too. Traffic to top conservative sites is down 40 percent. (The Atlantic)"
Could it be that conservatives value "We report, you decide" - and will seek it out?
I don't read The Free Press because it always agrees with me, or because it makes me comfortable. I read it because I never learned anything from people who agree with me. (Although, admittedly, I am a slow learner.)
I want to know who were the people or person who installed Katherine Maher as CEO of NPR?
The list of cities with impressive declines in homicides is most revealing for the locations not covered; Chicago, NYC, L.A. , D.C. et.al. Once again, lies, damn lies and statistics.
I have to slap myself. I’m in a new world where I actually agree with Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat I assumed would be just another liberal fool, but who has turned out to have an actual moral compass.
He’s right; why DOESN’T the United States stand strong with Israel? Iran for the first time directly attacked them with a barrage of 350 drones and cruise missiles. If this is not a casus belli then nothing is.
What if Iran had fired those weapons at America… would we just shrug, and say “welp, we don’t want a dangerous escalation so we’ll just pretend we didn’t see that, and hope it doesn’t happen again!”
"How Did the War Begin? With Iran’s Appeasers in Washington". Thanks for making is so binary and simple for us Ollie. For a minute, I thought you might actually dig into the complexities of the violence and abuses by both Muslims & Jews over the past decades and that there doesn't seem to be any resolution that doesn't end up costing thousands more lives and tens of billions more from the US taxpayers. But now we know it was just appeasers in DC. Thank goodness it's not something else.
Uri Berliner's interview was outstanding, but the only surprise to the majority us, that NPR has been coopted by progressive liberals for decades, was that he was actually saying it out loud. If I'm a betting man, he's polishing up his resume as we speak. As for Katherine Maher......well it takes about half a second on Google to see that she's a progressive left wing lunatic. So basically now that she's at the helm, NPR will will continue to operate as a psychopathic cult.....until it goes tits up because they're last 3 listeners committed hari kari when Trump or Kennedy get elected.
Wow, crime is dropping rapidly, just in time for an election. You heard it here first! Now brace yourself for NYTCNNWSJWaPo stories explaining how people don’t feel safer despite the good statistics about reduced crime.
That Golden Bachelor thing is priceless. No, it doesn’t say anything other than people who go on reality shows are fame whores and gee ya think it was all scripted?
Oliie Wiseman should consider changing his last name, or at least have his "editor card" revoked. Look closely at that murder rate chart. The heading reads "Year to date murder declines" now Look at the footnote - it cites data from March 31st to April 12th, a THIRTEEN DAY PERIOD that certainly is not "year to date" or even close.
And don't forget that the vast majority of murders that occur in ANY city happens during the summer months (omitted)
and to make this lie by omission even worse, where is New York, LA, Chicago, St Louis ? (you know, the murder capitals of the US).
Next debate: should America be colorblind ( Coleman Hughes) or anti racist ( X Kendi)? Other debaters could include Wilfred Reilly and Coates or diangelo. Bring it on Bari.
I was really hoping for more substantial coverage of Iran's attack. We're already well aware of the Democrats' coddling of Iran. We know what happened in the past. We need to know what is happening--and what is likely to happen--at this point.
Although whistle-blower Uri Berliner doesn't believe that defunding NPR is the way to change its biased reporting, there is a public and private movement underway to do just that. Defunding begins the house-cleaning that needs to be done. After that, there can be some debate to do away with NPR altogether. Personally, I think it might be missed, but not long.
I sent the NPR interview to 3 people I know who are regular listeners - when you get into their cars that’s the station that comes on. One recipient replied that his take was 70% left and 30% center. The other 2 didn’t respond which I took to mean they were happy with that organization being so left wing. And that may be why it is that way - the people who listen want to hear only left wing views.
Homicides in U.S. cities: Maybe since last year, but according to John R Lott Jr. ( Crime Prevention Research Center, www.crimeresearch.org ), " the murder rate is still 7.4% above the rate in 2019, before the defund the police efforts started. Yes, the murder rate has declined, but it is still significantly worse than before the policing reforms started."
Now, there is a place for journalism that's coming from a particular perspective. Not all media has to be neutral and do its best to be unbiased. That's what you get from Vox (which I enjoyed reading before Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein left before it went cuckoo bananas). That's what you get from reason.com. And frankly that's what you get from the Free Press (it definitely comes from a particular perspective and is also not being reported from a purely neutral perspective, nor would I want it to be). There's a place from journalistic commentary coming from a particular perspective, so long as the reader understands what that perspective is.
However, I think a publicly funded news outlet should be held to a different standard. NPR shouldn't be fulfilling the same role as Vox or Slate or reason.com.
The names of the people in power that made the decision to hire Katherine Maher should be made public and held accountable. They unquestionably sought out a person to lead NPR with the beliefs they knew she held. They got exactly what they were seeking.