It has the trait of every good news organization: it's BORING
On the contrary, it's "boring"-ness is actually a psychological operation against it's listeners. I know, I literally listened to it every day for like 8 years.
The "NPR voice" in an intentional weapon used against their own listeners to make it harder to hear, make people lean in, and try to listen more. They constantly repeat an affirmation to the listeners, and tell them they are smart for listening. Frankly, I think they are ripping off the ASMR fetish (before anyone knew what that meant) in order to try and groom their audience.
This grooming belies the complete fucking nonsense you are being told. NPR makes less than zero effort to try and report honestly, accurately, or objectively. "Objectivity is immoral when confronting despotism". Not only is their news selectionheavily slanted (meaning that they have extreme blind spots, I was regularly surprised I didn't even know a single thing about a big issue in the conservative media circuit. I guarantee you most NPR listeners have never heard the name "Laken Riley" before). They are literally telling you sweet little lies in your ear and they built a fucking brand out of that. Your crazy ex-girlfriend pulled this shit, and you dumped her. NPR is repeating the toxic girlfriend behavior (which doesn't surprise me because we are ruled by people with Cluster B personality disorders).
Another point: every hour on the hour they repeat the same news. You can basically recite the same hourly news up dates from memory, because they are grooming you into absorbing that information, in the same way, at the same time, in the same voice, covering the same stories. They will only ever update their hourly news if something major actually happens during the day, otherwise it's pre-set. It's designed to hit you with the same information a couple of times a day, but when you listen to it all day, it's wildly grating. I mean, what kind of maniac would just keep NPR playing in the backround all day.
The purpose of almost every news show they have is to repeat the hourly update, further inculcating you into the same information. Suddenly, you'll have an interview show, with 3 panelists (all of them are variants of Leftists), who will give you their narrative interpretation of one or two subjects from the hourly news. These panelists will be pushing shit that is just open fiction. "Betsy DeVoss mad rape legal on campus" level fiction.
The purpose of every entertainment show they have is to repeat the hourly update. Those shows will take some topic that was covered during the week and try to tangentially link it to some new episode. If immigration was a major topic in the news, they'll have a story about an immigrant or a foreigner on one of the Saturday shows. "This American Life" might have an episode on being an 'outsider', that kind of deal. It always keeps you glued to the narrative for incessant repetition.
They have a weekly comedy quiz show. Guess how that works? You play along with the panelists, and you get to answer questions about... yes that's right... the hourly news updates throughout the week. They do not cover any topic that wasn't covered on NPR. They will ask questions exclusively from NPR's asserted narrative as if it were objective reality. They are doing this to get you to regurgitate the same story and the same narrative, and gamify it so you memorize it better.
I'd call this shit Soviet Tier propaganda, but honestly, I don't think the Soviets were this thorough. This is also why no one on the Left can talk to anyone on the Right. NPR's news diet is so wildly unhealthy and insular it is effectively grooming, and there is no obvious way to anyone inside the cult, that they should run for their lives.
NPR makes less than zero effort to try and report honestly, accurately, or objectively.
Several times I've heard them say false things they would know were false with 5 minutes of searching... on Google even, by an intern. So either purposely lying or not even doing the slightest research on major stories.
Not only is their news selection heavily slanted
Another thing they do is the bait and switch. NPR.org republishes lots of print stories directly from AP and other wire services and they use this to claim "NPR is neutral" (as if AP is neutral) while they have insane leftist shit constantly on air.
But even then, they post 'controversially-neutral' articles at like 2 AM and it's off the front page by morning so none of their readers ever see it.
Just as the cherry on the shit sundae, “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” is a fucking crime against humanity. Setting aside the political slant, the disconnect between how desperately unfunny and ham-handed the attempts at humor are and how fucking brilliantly clever and witty the participants and fans think it is makes me want to put my fist through a wall.
My wife’s friends once tried to get her to go to a live taping of it. I told her I’d rather get a blood transfusion from Charlie Sheen than sit through that.
I always felt like it was mildly entertaining. Kinda like a group of friends having a bit of a laugh. The idea that they were ever properly funny was just silly to me, even at the time.
Because this is my bugaboo, here is a shortened list of all the bullshit that caused me to start yelling at my car radio from NPR:
I've said it before, but the breaking point for me was the inane partisanship of the Trump election and the Racialism.
"On The Media" media watchdog program explicitly rejecting objective journalism and campaigning against Trump. They claimed that having objectivity in the face of despotism was immoral.
NPR News claimed that the NRA was blaming autistic people for active shootings because they said that the government should invest in mental health
NPR News had unchallenged guests claiming that Donald Trump admitted to rape on the Hollywood Access tapes
NPR News presenters were audibly shocked that life expectancy rates for white men declined. They literally did not understand how that could be physically possible when whites were so privileged. The next week a story was done to investigate this and the journalists were shocked at how bad de-industrialization and the opioid epidemic had hurt white rural families, the week after that a story was done that claimed the opioid epidemic really effected urban blacks more than whites, and the whole line of discussion was completely dropped
NPR News panel guests claimed that Betsy DeVoss had legalized rape on college campuses, by repealing the "Dear College" memo which mandated the extra-judicial Title IX Tribunals
"It's Been A Minute" (what I call the NPR Racialist hour) basically had college professors of racial justice blaming senior citizen victims of violent crime on their inability to assimilate to foreign immigrant cultures and languages.
NPR did a puff piece of Zoe Quinn when she wrote her book Con Logs to push a completely false narrative about GamerGate, and never even looked at the literal Con Logs that Ian Miles Cheong revealed to show the level of conspiracy and harassment that ZQ herself was engaging in because people pointed out that she cheated on her boyfriend with game journalists.
Garrison Keeler of Prarie Home Companion was MeToo'd because he allegedly held a woman's shoulder when she was crying some 20-30 years ago. Everyone with a brain saw that he was a devout Lutheran and the show couldn't be revolutionized into whatever garbage management had in mind with his personality still present.
My personal favorites from trumps first term was before I quit listening:
• Having James Comey on “wait, wait, don’t tell me” to spread Russia gate propaganda and le drumf bad
• Terri Gross asking a Brazilian farmer how he felt about Donald Trump on a piece about… agricultural deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
• an entire segment on Afrofuturism where people repeatedly were egregiously black supremacist and the ending was some chick lamenting over how Detroit “used to be just so black”.
Having James Comey on “wait, wait, don’t tell me” to spread Russia gate propaganda and le drumf bad
I forgot the name of it, but that was the comedy show I was referencing. I never heard that one, I must have missed it that weekend for some reason. I was listening at the time, but was actively losing my shit over their coverage of Donald Trump "admitting to rape".
I believe my exact words were: "DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT THE FUCKING WORD "LET" MEANS?!!!"
lamenting over how Detroit “used to be just so black”
?????
Detroit used to be WHITE.
This fucking Black NatSoc shit is always crazy fucking magical thinking.
I just realized people act the same way about gentrification that they do with race swapping. It's only ever ok to go black. Once you go black you can never go back.
This was a piece about book authors who wrote black “sci-fi” where the entire planet was black in the “near future”. They could have said blacks were the original Greeks and it would have fit in the piece without anyone batting an eyelash.
The entire planet being black is that fuckin' "magic melanin is a dominant gene" psycho-science. The entire planet being black in the near future would require abortions to go down.
Honestly, best chance to fuck with them is to invoke Malcolm X. "How would you become the only race if you keep asking for money from White people?"
I was fooled a long time ago too. Just reading the posts on his website he seemed like a politically incorrect badass. Then I noticed him on the fearmongering bandwagon during the lockdowns.
My very favorite one was the one about Ira Glass having effectively zero testosterone left in his body and getting physically and financially mogged every day by his adopted shitbull
The best gem is in the replies, about the NYPost Hunter Biden story.
We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions. - NPR managing editor
I used to listen to NPR quite a bit. They've always been kinda gay and lame, but had some interesting content. It seemed they did at least try to maintain a pretense of political fairness. After Trump won, they went full-bore TDS and you couldn't get any programming that didn't reference Trump somehow. So, I guess it's been about 10 years since I've listened at all.
Years ago I worked for a news agency that monitored a bunch of news outlets. I'd never heard NPR until then. I hated how smug they were. They will suck each other's cocks all day long.
I still remember way back in the day when my mom would listen to NPR on the drive to school. They had a segment on this new fangled thing called the internet and what kind of sex pests were in chat rooms. They used the example "got any GIFs?" as a coded message where GIF = "girls or females". I was 12 and I knew that GIF was file format, and even I didn't know that, I would know that "i" can't possibly stand for "or" in an acronym. I haven't trusted a thing from then since.
Only a staunch leftist could post what Maddox posted and not understand how bad NPR’s bias truly is. He thinks it’s middle of the road because once in awhile NPR promotes the older style liberal positioning rather than the extreme left end of the spectrum like Maddox always sides with, so he mistakes it for representing right wing values in those cases.
On the contrary, it's "boring"-ness is actually a psychological operation against it's listeners. I know, I literally listened to it every day for like 8 years.
The "NPR voice" in an intentional weapon used against their own listeners to make it harder to hear, make people lean in, and try to listen more. They constantly repeat an affirmation to the listeners, and tell them they are smart for listening. Frankly, I think they are ripping off the ASMR fetish (before anyone knew what that meant) in order to try and groom their audience.
This grooming belies the complete fucking nonsense you are being told. NPR makes less than zero effort to try and report honestly, accurately, or objectively. "Objectivity is immoral when confronting despotism". Not only is their news selection heavily slanted (meaning that they have extreme blind spots, I was regularly surprised I didn't even know a single thing about a big issue in the conservative media circuit. I guarantee you most NPR listeners have never heard the name "Laken Riley" before). They are literally telling you sweet little lies in your ear and they built a fucking brand out of that. Your crazy ex-girlfriend pulled this shit, and you dumped her. NPR is repeating the toxic girlfriend behavior (which doesn't surprise me because we are ruled by people with Cluster B personality disorders).
Another point: every hour on the hour they repeat the same news. You can basically recite the same hourly news up dates from memory, because they are grooming you into absorbing that information, in the same way, at the same time, in the same voice, covering the same stories. They will only ever update their hourly news if something major actually happens during the day, otherwise it's pre-set. It's designed to hit you with the same information a couple of times a day, but when you listen to it all day, it's wildly grating. I mean, what kind of maniac would just keep NPR playing in the backround all day.
The purpose of almost every news show they have is to repeat the hourly update, further inculcating you into the same information. Suddenly, you'll have an interview show, with 3 panelists (all of them are variants of Leftists), who will give you their narrative interpretation of one or two subjects from the hourly news. These panelists will be pushing shit that is just open fiction. "Betsy DeVoss mad rape legal on campus" level fiction.
The purpose of every entertainment show they have is to repeat the hourly update. Those shows will take some topic that was covered during the week and try to tangentially link it to some new episode. If immigration was a major topic in the news, they'll have a story about an immigrant or a foreigner on one of the Saturday shows. "This American Life" might have an episode on being an 'outsider', that kind of deal. It always keeps you glued to the narrative for incessant repetition.
They have a weekly comedy quiz show. Guess how that works? You play along with the panelists, and you get to answer questions about... yes that's right... the hourly news updates throughout the week. They do not cover any topic that wasn't covered on NPR. They will ask questions exclusively from NPR's asserted narrative as if it were objective reality. They are doing this to get you to regurgitate the same story and the same narrative, and gamify it so you memorize it better.
I'd call this shit Soviet Tier propaganda, but honestly, I don't think the Soviets were this thorough. This is also why no one on the Left can talk to anyone on the Right. NPR's news diet is so wildly unhealthy and insular it is effectively grooming, and there is no obvious way to anyone inside the cult, that they should run for their lives.
Several times I've heard them say false things they would know were false with 5 minutes of searching... on Google even, by an intern. So either purposely lying or not even doing the slightest research on major stories.
Another thing they do is the bait and switch. NPR.org republishes lots of print stories directly from AP and other wire services and they use this to claim "NPR is neutral" (as if AP is neutral) while they have insane leftist shit constantly on air.
But even then, they post 'controversially-neutral' articles at like 2 AM and it's off the front page by morning so none of their readers ever see it.
Yeah, the corruption of Reuters and AP is a conversation that normies aren't prepared to have yet.
Geez Maddox turned into such a turd.
Just as the cherry on the shit sundae, “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” is a fucking crime against humanity. Setting aside the political slant, the disconnect between how desperately unfunny and ham-handed the attempts at humor are and how fucking brilliantly clever and witty the participants and fans think it is makes me want to put my fist through a wall.
My wife’s friends once tried to get her to go to a live taping of it. I told her I’d rather get a blood transfusion from Charlie Sheen than sit through that.
I always felt like it was mildly entertaining. Kinda like a group of friends having a bit of a laugh. The idea that they were ever properly funny was just silly to me, even at the time.
Because this is my bugaboo, here is a shortened list of all the bullshit that caused me to start yelling at my car radio from NPR:
I've said it before, but the breaking point for me was the inane partisanship of the Trump election and the Racialism.
My personal favorites from trumps first term was before I quit listening:
• Having James Comey on “wait, wait, don’t tell me” to spread Russia gate propaganda and le drumf bad
• Terri Gross asking a Brazilian farmer how he felt about Donald Trump on a piece about… agricultural deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
• an entire segment on Afrofuturism where people repeatedly were egregiously black supremacist and the ending was some chick lamenting over how Detroit “used to be just so black”.
I forgot the name of it, but that was the comedy show I was referencing. I never heard that one, I must have missed it that weekend for some reason. I was listening at the time, but was actively losing my shit over their coverage of Donald Trump "admitting to rape".
I believe my exact words were: "DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT THE FUCKING WORD "LET" MEANS?!!!"
?????
Detroit used to be WHITE.
This fucking Black NatSoc shit is always crazy fucking magical thinking.
I just realized people act the same way about gentrification that they do with race swapping. It's only ever ok to go black. Once you go black you can never go back.
Odd that you only now noticed this.
Sometimes people call it "gentrification" when they literally just want segregation. Until they realize the white people's tax revenue also goes away.
GET FUCKED BATON ROUGE.
This was a piece about book authors who wrote black “sci-fi” where the entire planet was black in the “near future”. They could have said blacks were the original Greeks and it would have fit in the piece without anyone batting an eyelash.
The entire planet being black is that fuckin' "magic melanin is a dominant gene" psycho-science. The entire planet being black in the near future would require abortions to go down.
Honestly, best chance to fuck with them is to invoke Malcolm X. "How would you become the only race if you keep asking for money from White people?"
Didn't NPR also have some author on talking about a book she wrote about how the BLM riots were good and justified too?
Yes, and that sentiment had already been around for a long time before that book.
Dang, I didn’t realize Maddox was a fag
What tipped you off?
The fact he supports NPR - I haven’t seen anything he’s put out since this era:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule
Men with Instagrams of themselves are dick-eaters fo sho
I was fooled a long time ago too. Just reading the posts on his website he seemed like a politically incorrect badass. Then I noticed him on the fearmongering bandwagon during the lockdowns.
My very favorite one was the one about Ira Glass having effectively zero testosterone left in his body and getting physically and financially mogged every day by his adopted shitbull
Do you please have a Nitter or Thread Reader link, by any chance?
Will this work: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1918991634919837792.html
Looks like it, thank you!
In my best Nate Diaz impression: "I'm not surprised, motherfuckers"
I bet you if we forced every liberal male to take testosterone injections/supplements we could change the world.
It would make for a hilarious science experiment, if nothing else.
We'll call it a vaccine
That is just a sampling.
The best gem is in the replies, about the NYPost Hunter Biden story.
I used to listen to NPR quite a bit. They've always been kinda gay and lame, but had some interesting content. It seemed they did at least try to maintain a pretense of political fairness. After Trump won, they went full-bore TDS and you couldn't get any programming that didn't reference Trump somehow. So, I guess it's been about 10 years since I've listened at all.
Leading up to Trump winning they were flying off the handle.
Have the archive. Someone else is compiling these and archiving them before I do.
https://archive.ph/D383V
Sorry Uri, according to this Maddox genius you've simply never listened to NPR and don't know what you're talking about.
Peter Boghossian did a great series on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPvNucxB7TI
For Kyle Rittenhouse there was clear video evidence immediately showing how innocent he was.
How many innocent white guys haven’t had video evidence and been falsely convicted? Driven by media hysterics
Thanks - when even portland professors are sick of NPR…
Years ago I worked for a news agency that monitored a bunch of news outlets. I'd never heard NPR until then. I hated how smug they were. They will suck each other's cocks all day long.
I still remember way back in the day when my mom would listen to NPR on the drive to school. They had a segment on this new fangled thing called the internet and what kind of sex pests were in chat rooms. They used the example "got any GIFs?" as a coded message where GIF = "girls or females". I was 12 and I knew that GIF was file format, and even I didn't know that, I would know that "i" can't possibly stand for "or" in an acronym. I haven't trusted a thing from then since.
Reminds me of a phenomenon :
“every subject that I am knowledgeable in - I discovered journalists were retarded. So why do I trust them for other subjects”
That's the Gell-Mann effect for you, nothing exposes these idiots more than listening to them talk about a subject your knowledgeable about.
Only a staunch leftist could post what Maddox posted and not understand how bad NPR’s bias truly is. He thinks it’s middle of the road because once in awhile NPR promotes the older style liberal positioning rather than the extreme left end of the spectrum like Maddox always sides with, so he mistakes it for representing right wing values in those cases.