If NPR is a part of the Trump defunding project..

[busterbrown]

I say good riddance.. For years now NPR took the middle ground with the Bush end Obama Administration, and now they are treating Trump as though he deserves the same treatment..Middle ground.. When in reality he’s a crazed, ignorant human being

NPR?...Understand this... You are suppose to represent the best of Culture, Education, Arts etc.. Donald Trump and his right wing minions want your ass gone... And as far as I’m concerned....I’m glad you’re going.

[LisaM]

1. Considering all the really good people I know working at NPR stations

I must say that I really disagree with you.

[busterbrown]

2. I get it..

But... I listen every morning and I just can’t take the fact that they treat Trump as a
just another President.. He isn’t.. He’s a threat to the freaking planet..Your Children, My Children, NPR’s Employee’s Children.

[LisaM]

3. You think we'd be better off without NPR?

Because I don't. Would I like them to time-travel back to the more in-depth stories they did in the 1990s? Sure. But with younger audiences, that's not going to happen. And they still review movies and books on-air, and have a lot of good small stations that have formats that you can't find everywhere else (in particular, jazz stations).

[hunter]

4. NPR is bought, and that makes me skeptical.

It's Fox News for people who think they are too smart for Fox News.

Market up, cheerful, market down, has big sad.

[busterbrown]

5. Want that a couple of years ago.?

Yep... I’m sorry.. I understand the jobs which are so important to so many good people.
However, should I support someone who is an Independent leaning Liberal and now is working for trump..

Nope! We are fighting for the planet

[liberal N proud]

6. What is the balance to FOX and the radical right wing mouthpieces?

NPR is our only hope for some response to the right wing.

The only reason Butternut Bigot wants to defunct it is because no one is getting rich from it.

[2naSalit]

7. I don't advocate for

the demise of NPR as I have been a life-long supporter and listener. I hated the mormon station that was all that I could get where I lived but i made do with what they had to offer in the nonreligious programming.

But, I did notice when snewt grinch made the initial attack and created the R's war on PBS/NPR after one reporter had the temerity to ask him about his bogus book deal w/Rupert Murdoch ($4Mil). I heard it and his response should have been the big boot up his ass that ejected him from DC... but it didn't

Now, it's been bought by the kocktopus, so that tells you a lot right there. And the kocktopus has also bought PBS so the NewsHour is not what it once was either.

NPR also has "alternative" stations in some areas, like my new location, and most of their programming is awesome and very community oriented. I like that part.

As for the news, it does require a little more than a grain of salt now-a-days.

[furtheradu]

8. I have very mixed feelings on this.

I love the programs like "wait,wait, don't tell me", "snap judgment","this American Life", "Moth story hour", "Texas Standard", "Fresh Air", "Think" & "On Being"💜.
I've listened to npr, depended on npr, supported npr, DAILY, since the *years. I became very disillusioned with "Morning Edition", in the Obama administration.. a definite slant TOWARDS their corporate sponsors, ie, kock bros, big oil..
& the 1st time I heard Steve Inskeep interview Pres. Obama, I was LIVID. He was SO rude, disrespectful, argumentative, constantly interrupting..VERY offensive to me.
Then, the past year or so, they were so pushing the nonsense that Hillary couldn't be trusted, never giving the same skepticism of trump, letting him skate, with all his obvious flaws & questionable connections & actions. They turned themselves inside-OUT to give that freak & his supporters (more than)equal time, with out equal SCRUTINY.
AFTER my bawling all night election night, suddenly the very next "Morning Edition" was all incredulous & aghast, about all the potential "conflicts of interest" & NO experience & bad temperament, & possible connections to pooty, & mobsters, & "what about all his businesses? ? !"
I was physically ill, & yelled out loud, "NOW you ask questions? !?" (& some cussing happened).
By the way, I encourage you to check out that morning's showin their archives. I can't.

I will say, they are more "fair" now than the past 8 yrs.BFD. The damage is done.

I see LOTS of PBS commercials to support PBS, and npr is doing their spring fund-begging, & I have to admit...o,well! Let 'em sweat & squirm. They earned it.
Maybe not as conflicted as I thought I was.