The author of this article is not a conservative, not even a moderate, but what we used to consider a liberal. Remember those days when you could have civil conversations between conservatives and liberals. Not so today with so many on the far far left. As expected this post will be heavily downvoted. Makes you wonder why they so fear civil discussion of ideas put forth by a liberal. But a liberal that does not completely accept the narrative.
...why single out the far left for? Do you think the far right - or even the right - have been up for civil conversations for the past couple decades or something?
My old coworker was conservative and we talked politics all the time. I loved it because every other conservative in my life is impossible to talk to without them citing a bullshit story they heard on Fox or busting out the Bible as evidence.
The article was written by a liberal. He, not me, is explaining what he believes is the problem with NPR. If you disagree with his viewpoint you should debate him.
Any conservative who doesn't admit that there are ALSO conservatives that don't "debate" with facts is clueless. They come to us from both sides. And in either case nothing is accomplished because you never get to understand the position of the other side. But in either case once the other party resorts to insults you know immediately that you are better off having a discussion with your dog.
NPR was already ideological 25 years ago - hell, it already was in the early 80's. I can remember some of the stuff I heard then, and couldn't believe they acted like they were impartial.
They just got worse, and people like this couldn't see it because of how ideological they already were.
I stopped regularly listening to NPR 20 years ago, because it was tiresome, hearing the same bias, incessantly. Never digging in to understand the differences in perspectives, just claiming one way of thinking (on any given subject) was obviously "right". News shouldn't attempt to tell you what's right, only what is, qualifying the data - as it's all biased or inaccurate to some degree.
At least before the 90's they still had a little open mindedness, and explored challenging subjects, sometimes.
...it was tiresome, hearing the same bias, incessantly. Never digging in to understand the differences in perspectives, just claiming one way of thinking (on any given subject) was obviously "right". News shouldn't attempt to tell you what's right...
I agree with this so much.
Why I liked the article. Politically I most likely differ with the author but discussing issues is important. Echo chambers don’t lead to good results. I wish Congress would stop being an echo chamber and negotiate for better results. The aclu stood up for the Nazis and their right to speak. I think we all hate Nazis but I believe in free speech. Now the aclu only believes in the “right” speech which is why I don’t donate to them anymore.
News shouldn’t attempt to tell you what’s right, only what is, qualifying the data - as it’s all biased or inaccurate to some degree
All news will carry a bias. I’m fine with that. I’m tired of news that lies and tries to tell you how to think.
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