NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism - Lemmy.World
I know some people might not like NPR, but the message matters and can help someone you know. In particular this story touches on women’s issues.
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People should be deeply grateful for NPR, and PBS has been a national treasure. I still can't believe we defunded Sesame Street and at the same time that anyone has an axe to grind with the only unbiased reporting left in our nation.
Thanks for the link.
The problem is that unbiased reporting usually reveals conservative corruption and poor behavior.
Facts have a liberal bias.
TBH it's been frustrating to see how watered down the reporting has been this year.
Listening to KQED (local NPR affiliate) I was hearing taking heads from the CATO institute and the Heritage Foundation, without any qualifications of what those orgs are.
You can really feel the slide into milquetoast, neutered, both-sides press from every major outlet and the domestic landscape, but it's still a head above trying to get your news from CNN/CNBC/MSNBC/WaPo.
I can't fathom people on this platform being offended by how left-wing the people's Media has been though, historically, when NPR/PBS have gone out of their way to be so damned neutral and nakedly honest in their coverage, and have proceed ACTUAL journalism in even remote corners of our country.
Agreed. Perhaps it’s because they were trying hard to deliver unbiased news (which is boring), whilst every other news station focuses on sensationalism or clickbait to get more viewers.
Regardless, they lost their federal funding anyway simply because they did their job and did it well IMO. Sad.
no such thing
Used to be! When I was a kid and we had 3 or 4 TV stations to choose from, and they all pretty much reported the same factual news. Being seen as having a bias was poisonous. People picked a news anchor to watch according to how trustworthy they felt he was. Imagine that!
The bias was ordered from the top down ...
Every human endeavor is biased. Best we can do is try to be transparent about our biases.
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/02/598916366/sinclair-broadcast-group-forces-nearly-200-station-anchors-to-read-same-script
monopolies also suck
That's kind of my point. The bias is laid bare and I vious for those that listen. NPR did the very best at sharing information while fighting hard to stay neutral, AND kept listeners and viewers informed.
They'll continue their mission, but many smaller affiliate stations that only have Sinclair media broadcasting in their neck of the woods are going to be moderately more screwed than they already were, with more conservative agitprop pretty much occupying their airwaves.
Who the fuck doesn't like NPR?
maga nuts and the rest of the 'far right'. truth and an informed populace are their enemy.
I've seen folks on here hating NPR for unbiased reporting, because the reporting didn't say what they wanted. Haven't listened in for a few years, but when I did NPR was solidly unbiased.
They could present a story where you thought, "How could there be ANY other side?", and yet presented the other side without prejudice. Some people don't like that. Because some people don't understand journalism.
I’ve seen equal parts “NPR is commie leftist bullshit” and “NPR is sanewashing Trump and is right wing” and I feel like I’m going insane
Oh, you are. You are.