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Re:Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought by marricks on Monday May 20, 2019 @12:50PM (#19962316)
Growing up I though of NPR as a bastion of the left but the older I get the more cynical I become. Your take reminds me of the most infuriating story I heard on NPR about Amazon Seasonal workers.

They spotlighted a retiree couple would supplements their income with it in the winter and drives south to gamble in the summer and it just sounded like a profile of a charmed life, somehow I imagine that isn’t the case for most people who work there...

They have monthly fundraising drives where they ask listeners to pay up for fearless journalism but a lot of it sounds like it was written by and for entrenched industries.

https://www.marketplace.org/2017/12/21/business/holiday-seas...

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Re:Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought by Loughla on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:13PM (#19962597)
I hate to pull politics into this, but their coverage of the 2016 Presidential really opened my eyes to their biases. Bernie Sanders was not treated as a serious candidate through then entire race, but they absolutely fawned over Hillary Clinton. The same is happening now for all 230 candidates v Joe Biden. Any story they air treats most candidates as fringe, but Biden as the only serious contender.

Honestly, I love NPR, but. . .

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Re:Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought by thatoneuser on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:10PM (#19964610)
Honest question, do Hillarys power circles now latch onto Biden? Or are they distinct?
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Re:Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought by cwkoss on Monday May 20, 2019 @06:34PM (#19965975)
Seems they are going Biden and Buttegieg
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Re:Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought by java-man on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:01PM (#19962454)
I hear more ads on NPR than before. Has their funding mechanism changed?
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Re:Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought by asark on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:37PM (#19962856)
I also get the sense it's increased over the years. If you count all fund-raising time (drives plus the at least tens of minutes on ordinary days they push donations or giving them cars), promoting their own podcasts, and the now-seemingly-much-longer sponsorship messages (straight-up ads) I'm not sure it's any better than commercial radio.
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Re:Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought by colordrops on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:04PM (#19962485)
They only get 16% of their funds from public sources.
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Re:Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought by plussed_reader on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:07PM (#19962523)
No, it is still funded from listeners and corporate interests.
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