Even though I've lost all faith in NPR...
.... I have a long commute to work and still listen most weekdays.
Today, for the first time on Morning Edition, I heard them discuss the TPP. Guess what their focus was? Not on the substance of the trade agreement, which is somewhat secret and definitely not in the interest of most Americans. No, it was about wildlife poaching and how the TPP could curtail it.
Never mind that the leverage they claim the TPP would offer is dubious at best, they have never bothered to even talk about the substance of the proposed TPP before, and its ramifications to the average American.
It is astounding how low NPR has fallen. They are useless, Fox News with a supposed liberal bias.
Please do not waste your money supporting them, clearly they are getting quite enough from the corporate world.
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when I herd that crock of poo this morning. I have come to the conclusion, a couple years ago, that they have become a propaganda tool.
Wish I had access to other news on the radio in the morning. I only get one radio station and the NPR station from mormon university is all I get. If you think the national news is bad, you should hear the local/regional news in this area... as told by mormons... it could make your ears turn into clumps of salt.
a funny thing happened today (and has happened several time over the last couple of months) ... four times today, I went web-surfing while waiting for someone to complete their portion of a project, so I could continue with my part ... I was, also, listening to NPR. Each time I clicked to open an article, NPR did a segment on that particular topic!
It's enough to make you think they're monitoring you!
briefly. 
To tap into. DESPISE NPR. 
dangerous than from a source everyone knows is crap.
.... in Dallas they don't.
I pretty much turn it off when the news comes on---which is their most important programming. Their mission really.
But I have a guilty conscience because of all those other programs. Besides the ones you mention, there's Moyer's and Company, Le Show, Whad'ya Know, Says Who?, Ted Talks Radio, The Moth Radio Hour, Selected Shorts, LA Theater Works, Bullseye, Snap Judgement, Invisibilia, Reveal, BBC's World Have Your Say, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, To the Best of Our Knowledge.
That's a lot of guilt. But they did cheerlead up to the Iraq war and I can't send money to an outfit that won't do real journalism and on top of it gives cover to the Republican mind set. 
As they always planned to do.
Another American corporate success story, just like Public Education "reform".
I think it was a combination of their increasingly right-wing slant, Cokie Roberts, and that awful music they'd play between segments 
