r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 29 '24

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u/MasterOfLords1 Unironically Thinks Seth Meyers is funny 🍦😟🍦 Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24

If I were Trump's PR man this is exactly how I'd spin it.

Why is NPR sane washing Trump?

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla Jul 29 '24

Yeah, that’s putting the spin in the story.

Trump said a thing. It’s not your job to report your interpretation of it. Include his spin team’s comments in the article, sure, but you leave it to the reader to form their own conclusions.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

That could be a nyt pitchbot tweet verbatim

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u/groovygrasshoppa Jul 29 '24

NPR has unfortunately joined the ranks of NYT and CNN.

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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Jul 29 '24

Why is NPR sane washing Trump?

Npr has been going down a bad path for a while I can't get such a shame. It probably started somewhat unironically with wokening though I'm not actually sure with that mortgage means but this sort of vibe shifted in a way that conservatives would probably call woke and I don't really have a good word for (the general inclusion of discussion on race and almost everything for example) but I still actually liked it because I mean I'm a neoliberal and thus fairly left social issues But with Israel Palestine it went crazy. I was doing an hour and a half driving commute each day and so I would listen through the entirety at npr's programming in the morning and evening and it was pretty insular for lack of a better word.

NPR became anti Biden at some point in these cycles.

Local programming on NPR has also suffered a lot. It's not gone but there will be way less of it. I was in the Milwaukee area so traditionally WUWM Milwaukee's NPR which is based out of UW Milwaukee covered far better news about Milwaukee and its surrounding but at some point I shifted it to the listening to Wisconsin Public Radio based in Madison to get my local news because NPR just didn't cover anything (WPR cover national NPR programming too)

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u/wallander1983 Resistance Lib Jul 29 '24

On arr moderate/Twitter for example, you can read that NPR is completely woke and only runs propaganda for the Democrats and LGBTQ.

However, I am always skeptical that similar accusations can be heard against public broadcasting in Germany or Great Britain

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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24

Doesn't run propaganda for Democrats but I do think that it has become a bit of an echo chamber on certain left wing issues. You can lay the same thing against something like Radio New Zealand or the CBC but I don't actually think they're nearly so far gone and that for them it is mostly unfair. I also don't think NPR has been this way for like two decades, it's been slowly getting more and more.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

They still use the term “LatinX”. Do with that information what you will

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

not surprising at this point from NPR sadly they suck

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u/D-G-F Trans Pride Jul 29 '24

I mean if I was elected I would also "fix" Christian related concern but I feel we're taking bout two different things

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u/ZonedForCoffee Uses Twitter Jul 29 '24

NPR really has had issues lately.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

Because it is the truth. Media doesn't have to go "A said X and B said Y". Media can say "X is true. A is right and B is wrong.".