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Eric Blair's avatar

The heart of the problem isn't that NPR doesn't allow most Americans to "see themselves reflected in the programming," it's that NPR has been lying to Americans about everything all the time, and we know it.

NPR isn't merely "the news" but slanted with a leftward bias. It is, and has been, pure ideological propaganda.

One of NPR's recurring propaganda points is that taxpayers fund only a tiny, insignificant portion of its budget and that it is on the whole self-sufficient. If that's the actually the case, then there should be no need to panic at the loss of public funds. But of course that's not actually the case.

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Greg Kemnitz's avatar

A useful direction for something like NPR (and its sibling PBS) - if they truly wants to be state-run media organizations - is to basically buy C-SPAN and broadcast all the congressional meetings/hearings/etc (and other stuff like presidential news conferences and such). They should also do so without any sort of commentary - just produce and publish the raw video stream from such meetings (and keep videos and text transcripts of them on a searchable website).

C-SPAN has been in trouble recently as streamers like Youtube TV don't want to carry it.

No commentary, no "reporting" - once you cross that bridge, you become political.

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