NPR news stinks

[mucifer]

I haven't listened to it in a while.

I was listening today and their top of the hour news said Guilliani says Mueller is finishing up the investigation in September and stated that trump continues to attack Mueller.

Nothing was mentioned about the convictions Mueller already has and how strong Mueller has performed to this day as far as indictments etc. So if you just listened to that "news report" you'd think Mueller is probably full of crap. They only quoted trump and guilliani.

It really made me

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Sad to say,NPR

has been corrupted by the Koch's,Walton's,and other Corporate Special interests.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. NPR jumped the shark many years ago.

Back in 1992 Cokie Roberts stated quite confidently that there was no possible way that Bill Clinton would get the Democratic nomination for President, not that it mattered because George HW Bush was absolutely going to be re-elected.

Incredibly enough, she has stayed in the reporting business.

But it wasn't just her. It was clear to me by the late 90s that NPR had taken a decidedly conservative turn, and I gradually gave up listening to them.

These days I wake up every morning to Amy Goodman, and I listen to a fair amount of BBC news. Their reporters actually ask real follow up questions when doing an interview. I also read the local newspaper.

[Sherman A1]

3. On it's worst day, it is still head and shoulders

Above anything I have found on CNN, MSNBC or any of the breathless 24/7 cable infotainment noise networks. I’ll take NPR any day of the week.

[mucifer]

5. What I heard seemed to me like total misinformation. However, I am in Chicago

so our local NPR WBEZ has some excellent local programming and it's multicultural.

But the news at the top of the hour seemed pretty right wing to me.

[lunasun]

7. It is has been turning RW for years but I hear ya BEZ has some good local stuff too.

Conflicts on that station for me.

[Sherman A1]

12. I have not noticed it being as such

Yes, there are stories, points of view and commentators with which I do not agree, but I would not characterize them as RW. I believe that they do the best they can to be balanced. Perhaps that means giving a platform or a point of view which I find disagreeable, but sometimes there is something worth learning.

[DURHAM D]

4. I turned off NPR in the run up to the Iraq war. nt

[jayschool2013]

6. NPR Nice Polite Republicans

Better than the other brand of Republicans, but still a problem.

[lunasun]

9. +++ I like that ! Yes softly feeding you the same bull still don't cut it when you listen

to what's being said !

[OneBro]

10. That's a keeper!

[a kennedy]

11. OMGAWD.......that's it exactly.....NPR. Nice Polite Republicans.....

and I have quit giving to them.....keep getting “please come back”. AND I’M NOT GOING BACK TO GIVING.

[Va Lefty]

8. Agreed. It's really gone south.

[Snake Plissken]

13. NPR News used to break stories not it just follows the headlines which follow what's "trending"

Part of that has to do with budget constraints and part of it has to do with where it's funding is coming from. The programs produced by NPR are still top shelf, but it's news has turned into a brief summary of the AP wire and a regurgitation of what's trending on twitter politically.

[GulfCoast66]

14. Too mant people want NPR to be MSNBC.

Gouliani said what he said an it is news as he is functioning as Trumps legal mouthpiece.

His comment has nothing to do with the investigation to this point and adding that info would have been totall unrelated to the statements made today.

NPR is the most honest broker in news. Seeing those on the left joining those on the right in attacking the network is the best indicator of its validity. But it is troubling nonetheless. The right has been and continues to attempt to defund the network. Are we going to join in that effort?

[obnoxiousdrunk]

15. +1. N/t