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.
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.