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Eric Blair Feb 8, 2023

NPR bears great responsibility for pushing the US toward autocracy.

NPR has been unable to accurately convey, without bothsidesism, the dangers we face.

The effect is that NPR listeners are falsely reassured—they don't learn about how dangerous the moment is, how extreme conservatives have become. Because NPR doesn't state that clearly.

Related: A lot of NPR's income today comes from corporate ads.

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Thomas McKenna Feb 8, 2023

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It is a shocking abdication of responsibility and it has been going on for years. Their obsessive effort not to offend anyone out of fear of losing their public funding has turned them to happy-talking mush. I remember when NPR was the must-listen radio station for insightful morning and evening news. I haven't been able to listen for more than a decade.

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John Breen

@Tmmck @protecttruth @shoq But "Wait wait, don't tell me" is really good... I think you identify the dynamics well, just hope ElMo does not figure out he could buy NPR...