04-09-2024, 12:41 PM
I think one of the things that is important to understand in all of this is that NPR itself provides some of the big shows, but there are quite a few productions in the NPR network that are locally produced and funded that are not as impacted as much by this culture shift.
I personally stopped relying on NPR for my daily/weekly news coverage for the most part a few years back. With so many news podcasts available to me I still listened to "The Daily," but it is just one among roughly five or six that I listen to every day for my audio news fix. It is interesting to hear about the change in culture that it seems the new CEO has accelerated in the organization and it makes sense.
I will still enjoy the more in depth stories from things like Throughline and 1A, which I maintain do an outstanding job on covering topics important to us in the present day, but Reuters and the AP will still be my go-to news apps for US centric news reporting. This does highlight what I have maintained from the start, though, and that is that we must always use multiple sources for our news consumption because even the most neutral sources still have editorial biases.
I personally stopped relying on NPR for my daily/weekly news coverage for the most part a few years back. With so many news podcasts available to me I still listened to "The Daily," but it is just one among roughly five or six that I listen to every day for my audio news fix. It is interesting to hear about the change in culture that it seems the new CEO has accelerated in the organization and it makes sense.
I will still enjoy the more in depth stories from things like Throughline and 1A, which I maintain do an outstanding job on covering topics important to us in the present day, but Reuters and the AP will still be my go-to news apps for US centric news reporting. This does highlight what I have maintained from the start, though, and that is that we must always use multiple sources for our news consumption because even the most neutral sources still have editorial biases.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
