I'm Scared- NPR seems all pro Trump now. Like Twighlight Zone!

[SPKrazy]

I listen to NPR a lot driving around when I'm working. It has been a lifesaver for me listening to things like all things considered especially. Today I was listening to it and they were interviewing all these pro Trump people at the inauguration and they were also full of shit! But nobody was questioning anything they said. If this can happen in 24 hours what's going to happen next. I haven't been on here in a while but I'm here I guess because it feels like it might be safe.

[onecaliberal]

1. The repigs are going to cut funding for it, soon it will go away.

[marybourg]

12. They only get 5% of their funding

from the Federal gov't. They will make that up from listeners, easily if that 5% is lost. What they are trying to do however, is to lose the liberal label they've unfairly been tagged with by the right. To that end they've been bending over backwards - or just bending over - to attract the right half of the Divided Nation.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. They're afraid of losing their funding.

NPR and PBS are on the GOP's chopping block (again).

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. Yes, and it might happen this time.

[etherealtruth]

3. I heard them fact checking his speech ... it wasn't pro-tRump to me

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/ap-fact-check-trumps-inaugural-speech/


WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s inaugural address held familiar echoes of the campaign speeches that led to his presidential win: downbeat about the state of the nation, to the point of hyperbole. Here’s a look at some of his assertions Friday.

Read President Trump’s full inaugural address

TRUMP: “The jobs left, and the factories closed … the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon.”

THE FACTS: The U.S. economy is a lot healthier than the wreck Trump describes. Jobs have increased for a record 75 straight months. The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in December, close to a nine-year low and to what economists consider full employment.

[SPKrazy]

5. I didn't get to hear that.

I was listening to all things considered a while ago.
Hey I also noticed I heard one person call it fact checking and then yesterday I heard it called "footnoting " which I wondered if they were trying not to be sticking out in any way? Maybe just a different way of putting it.
Glad to know they have not turned pro Trump!

[etherealtruth]

8. Here's more

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/20/510746685/as-world-watches-trump-become-president-protests-and-some-celebrations?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170120

As Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th U.S. president, protests, demonstrations — and a few celebrations — were underway in cities around the world.

In London, demonstrators holding anti-Trump signs gathered outside the U.S. Embassy on Friday evening. Earlier in the day, huge banners saying "Build Bridges Not Walls" were hung across the city's bridges, part of a U.K. campaign that that began after Trump was elected in November.

[SPKrazy]

17. That's hopeful

I know they talked about protests in DC and had some reporter on K street where a "limo was burning and putting out acrid smoke and I can hardly breathe " and then they switched to three reporters talking about how the celebration was going on and some dude said "liberals have no core values" I'm thinking eff you we have more values that are central to caring about the planet and each other. Then some missionary from Guatemala said "we can finally say Merry Christmas." I guess in Guatemala they couldn't because I've been saying Merry Christmas for years! No there is not a frickin war on Christmas and if she's in Guatemala how would she know.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. That was PBS; the OP is talking about NPR.

[etherealtruth]

13. Ooops sorry, you are right I posted the pBS link and not the NPR link (here is NPR's)

http://www.npr.org/2017/01/20/510629447/watch-live-president-trumps-inauguration-ceremony

[Big Blue Marble]

4. Switch your drive time to podcasts.

You can choose who you are hearing. Start with the excellent Pod Save America Podcast
with the Obama guys who have quit their private sector jobs to support democracy with
Jon Favreau, Jon, Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor.

https://getcrookedmedia.com/here-have-a-podcast-78ee56b5a323#.s5jsdjbf0

You will always feel better or at least supported with these wonderful guys!

[RKP5637]

6. From what I've heard, NPR is going to be history, all funding dropped by the Trump

regime, and privatized, I guess.

[SPKrazy]

11. They've been trying for years but it's not all public money

Portions are sponsored by different companies or donations

[RKP5637]

14. Good !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[astral]

20. I remember a time they didn't have the federal funding.

And I was told their news was not going to be impartial anymore with thee federal funding. I wasn't paying close attention yet to what slanted news is (or isn't) and continued o support public radio with an annual donation for another ten years or so (I wanted my coffee-cup collection!) I want news that isn't all slanted liberal or Republican from them and may support them again if that happened, of course news sources have changed a lot over thee years, now I just listen to find out what they're spinning today.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. NPR will become a

property of some Billionaire,either a Koch or someone from the Sinclair Family. Remember how the Republicans sold of the NOAA Weather Service years back to a climate denier and became the Weather Channel. Same shit just a new day.

[etherealtruth]

15. Probably true and tragic

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Wm.Buckley

wanted this to disappear many years back. Even though he used it to promote his Ayan Ryan philosophy.

[etherealtruth]

19. Yep

[zeusdogmom]

16. No need to challenge the answers.

Most of those I heard being interviewed showed just how ignorant they are.

[Dismade]

21. I noticed the same trend

Immediately after W's election. Took them some months but they finally swung back to a more balanced stance.

Can't understand or explain it; perhaps they're just testing the water temperature and trying to avoid offending supporters.

[a kennedy]

22. Stopped listening to NPR right after the fiasco that was Nov 8th......

stopped contributing to them years ago.....only give to my local WPR station. I just don't care for Steve Inskeep's tone, has that "better then you will ever be" twang to it. Ugh...... Now, Kathleen Dunn on at 1:00 - 3:00 Mon through Thursday, is awesome.....and only reason I give to WPR.

[femmocrat]

23. Hey you! Welcome back!

You have been gone for a very long time! Great to see you here again.

[Coventina]

24. When I heard Fucker, I mean Tucker Carlson on NPR, that was it for me.

If I want to listen to Fox News, I'll tune in to Fox News.

[mucifer]

25. They have some good podcasts from "Worldview" "This American Life"

Lots of the local Chicago programming is very liberal. But, lots of the national news sucks on NPR.

I stopped being a member a long time ago.

[cilla4progress]

26. I love On Point

WITH Tom Ashbrook. Last week he had a call in show with only Trump supporters to learn their views. Perhaps that is what you caught.