I’m an regular listener to NPR and Wisconsin Public Radio.

I usually work alone and sometimes in the remote countryside. I love to listen to the radio.

Local AM radio is usually the conservanazi hate radio rant of the day. Hour after hour of conservanazi wingnut propaganda. Geez, they haven’t found anything yet they can’t lie or whine about.

FM commercial stations aren’t much better. Today’s “country” music is really bad, goofy rock and roll. Oldies and classic rock have really short playlists. In 3 days, you’ve heard their whole set. The same crap over and over and over.

I live close to the Ill. border. I can listen to WCPT, progressive radio. It gets a little boring too.

But, I like the NPR/WPR programming. Good topics. Their talk shows will even let the conservanazi toadies come on and spew a few of their lies and propaganda.

It is the only actually FAIR AND BALANCED media outlet out there.

Eat your heart out Fox Noise and Bill O’Lielly. Your stations SUCK.

Paracelsus, March 28 at 12:39 am #

For a couple of weeks NPR had some feature disproving any link whatsoever between autism and vaccinations. In fact there were experts chiding parents for not getting enough inoculations for their children. NPR is probably the most favored radio station among eugenicists.
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I hate criminally irresponsible assertions like this. It gets innocent people killed.

Concerns with the Pertussis vaccine in infants in Europe resulted in an explosion of Whooping Cough in children there.  Concerns with chlorinated water causing cancer brought Paraguay to stop using chlorine—and cholera and other water-borne diseases expanded at a rate 1000 times greater than the chlorine-induced cancer. 

The value of vaccinations and inoculations is as indisputable as the validity of Evolution in science.

Non-scientists never seems to understand that correlation is NOT causation.  Got that? Correlation is not Causation!

I have been listening to ME every day for 30 years.  I find all these accusations to be fallacious and duplicitous by posters who want NPR to broadcast their own brand of left-wing biased propaganda…and a few who want it to broadcast their own brand of right-wing biased propaganda, as if they didn’t already have Faux Noise.

I always loved Robert Edwards and was furious when they fired him for not being “young” enough.

For me, ME has been the ONLY way I can wake up without a headache.  Recently, in NY area, WNYC has been running in the 6am slot a rock-n-roll, lighter, faster, “hipper” show called “The Takeaway” with an AMAZING theme song—as soon as it starts playing my head starts pounding and I have to shut the d*** radio off.

ATC is still the best thing in the afternoon. Years ago they got rid of Susan Stanberg’s nonsense going on for 20 minutes about cookies you couldn’t taste, aromas you couldn’t smell, or dancers you couldn’t see.

In these days when EVERY news show on commercial TV and radio is going after the advertising $$ and the audience numbers and whoring themselves to that (the 2000 election was the most disastrous example) only NPR stands out on the radio as sticking to actual news.

I discount the nay-say-ers, both left and right, both of whom want NPR to simply be THEIR propaganda mouthpiece with the veneer of NPR’s 30 year reputation as their cover.  That’s all it is with the folks here—they can’t hide behind NPR’s rep with their agit-prop so they call it names and attack it.

For a couple of weeks NPR had some feature disproving any link whatsoever between autism and vaccinations. In fact there were experts chiding parents for not getting enough inoculations for their children. NPR is probably the most favored radio station among eugenicists.

Additionally not many a show could go without citing some UN study to boost whatever globalist agenda needs supporting. NPR is for liberals who are so far broadminded that their brains have fallen out of their skulls, in other words the “open minded”, or the severely trepanned. Trust me. Just listen for them to cite some UN agency to support their opinions. They can’t go a week without it.

Every time my conservative brother talks about PBS and NPR as “leftist”, I’ll have to send him a link to this site. “You wanna see what hard-core lefties think of NPR, bro?”

You guys who talk about “National Propaganda Radio” and “National Pentagon Radio” are confusing news with advocacy. Amy Goodman is a journalist, but with an agenda. She looks for and works stories that advance a liberal perspective. That’s ok. It’s important, in fact, and I like what she does. But it’s not straight news. That’s not the role of NPR.

You say they don’t do “in depth.” You will find no one covering the economic melt down with anything like the depth and clarity of This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=355

NPR is recovering from 8 years of crap handed them by the Bush Empire - including severe cuts in funding. I enjoy and am thankful for more progressive and indy news and programming, but what if we had neither in this country! I think we’re very fortunate to have both.

Clinton killed NPR when he named Kevin Klose to head the group in 1994 or so.  It was already leaning towards corporatism, but Klose, who came from the official propaganda arm of the USG, the Voice of America, really did a number on NPR.  Try a look at NPRwatch.blogspot.com for some good criticism of this pathetic milquetoast, warnographic enabling, corporation promoting, Republican leaning corporation.

Don’t have a tv, but enjoy much of what NPR offers on the car radio—San Francisco’s Forum, McNeill-Lehrer, BBC, and, depending on the topic, sometimes “Talk of the Nation”, sometimes “Fresh Air.” Local KPFA carries Amy Goodman so I switch for that. NPR also has live (and replayed at a later hour) gavel-to-gavel coverage on hearings, debates, etc. It’s easy to avoid the fluff if you want to, which includes “Morning Edition” and if I’m listening when “All Things Considered” comes on I can judge by the rundown of topics whether I want to keep listening or not. (We also used to enjoy listening to Joel Frank’s short stories on the way back from San Francisco on Saturday nights, but haven’t caught it lately.) I’d miss NPR; there aren’t that many good broadcast outlets left. Oh—They also make an attempt to balance presentations, with different people holding different points of view either debating at the same time or holding forth separately. KPFA’s gotten too pompous—at least its commenters have—but still listen to their takes on national and international news, and sometimes they have really great music. But NPR sets a high standard for public affairs coverage.

DemocracyNow is on some NPR.  I listen to WBAI in NYC, which is the original home of DemocracyNow (WBAI is one of the five Pacifica Network listener sponsored stations).

I have heard NPR called National Pentagon Radio.  I also think of it as National Phluff radio.  In NYC, there’s one hour of BBC News on the NPR station at midnight and overnights on Sat./Sun.  I sometimes wondered if they were replaying some of the Sat. overnight BBC features again on the Sun. overnight.

One has to be desperate to listen to NPR, but maybe that’s all some folks can get.  I am grateful to have WBAI in NYC http://www.wbai.org

Funny. I read an article that saying their ratings are actually down significantly since the election ended.

So what is the real truth here?

Are they using old stats to boost perception?

.gov propoganda?

NPR is a government joke.

NPR: a better brand of pablum…

This collectivist network makes me sick. What happened to freedom and liberty for the individual?

During the last show I listen to, they debated on how the government could grow stronger. Should the Treasury, Fed or FDIC take over any company that is about to go bankrupt?

How about the government should get out of the way, and let the poorly managed companies go bankrupt?

I once took a lot of flack for voicing my discontent with Bill Moyers.  I never learn.  I find that the “fluff content” on MORNING EDITION wears down my patience for the more substantive stuff.  At the time when I listen, I would rather tune in Amy Goodman;  and before Amy’s program I can pull in NEWSHOUR on the BBC with my XM/Sirius subscription (as long as they stay in business)!  It’s almost as if MORNING EDITION wants to compete with GMA and TODAY, and they should know better than to do that.