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In reply to the discussion: 50 years of NPR!!! Love it or hate it.... when did you start listening to their programs?? [View all]Mad_Machine76
(24,355 posts)34. Probably early 2000's
I was glued to the news and podcasts (esp Diane Rehm show) for the first few years after 9/11 and became a small donor to them and our local PBS held a kids event every summer that we took our kids to. After awhile though I started to get really irritated at their "bothsiderism". I still tune in every once in a while but it still is pretty bad and some of the better correspondents have since left. Still somewhat better than most corporate owned media but it has become severely degraded by right wing control and defunding over the years. :-/
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50 years of NPR!!! Love it or hate it.... when did you start listening to their programs?? [View all]
mitch96
May 2021
OP
When I used to drive across rural areas, often late at night, I cheered when I found an NPR station.
Hoyt
May 2021
#4
1980. Had a roommate from Minnesota who introduced me to A Prairie Home Companion.
Shrike47
May 2021
#5
KPFA (Pacifica radio) was my go-to station fifty years ago but I slowly migrated to KQED (NPR)...
Brother Buzz
May 2021
#8
If it's "only" fifty years old, I must have started at the very beginning. I still...
LAS14
May 2021
#9
Don't remember when, but a long time ago. Used to drive a lot, and if I could find an...
TreasonousBastard
May 2021
#10
I listened regularly until W when Talk of the Nation devoted a show to cosmetic surgery on Earth Day
tenderfoot
May 2021
#16
In October of 2004 I realized they'd jumped the shark - after decades of listening
Ron Green
May 2021
#32
Started in the early 80s; stopped in the mid 2000s when they swerved right.
lagomorph777
May 2021
#38