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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by AlbertCory on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:05PM (#35562754)
>Well, since Fresh Air is almost all interviews with novelists, musicians, actors and other interesting cultural stuff, I suppose that most of the folks who Watch Fox News, if they like fiction, music, movies and theater would love to hear interviews with those folks.

> And those who are interviewed on Fresh Air are usually flogging their new book/album/movie/art installation/whatever, so I'd imagine most of them would appear on any media outlet that would have them.

So I guess your answer is "none" then?

> You've clearly never listened to Fresh Air, because the wouldn't do a Hunter Biden laptop story, or a Jared Kushner (yes, I love the UAE's money more than I love Ivanka, and I love Ivanka a lot!) story either.

"They" is NPR here, not Fresh Air (which I do listen to). NPR News or All Things Considered is "they." Show me where that laptop story was covered anywhere on NPR or PBS.

I hosted a guy at Google, Hugh Sinclair, who talks about the reality of microfinance, having spend 10 years in the field doing it. He was turned down for Fresh Air.

> As I pointed out, not everything is about a bunch of gasbags bloviating about how terrible the other guy is. That shit is really tired. And has been for quite some time.

Everything on NPR is, unfortunately, unless it's about the arts. And even there, it's heavily over-weighted to "arts by under-represented people."

> when they skewered Obama and Clinton and Kerry and Biden and Harris and Pritzker

when was that, exactly?

> most of the folks who Watch Fox News

Oh, the condescension there.

> it's divisive, unpleasant and really, really tired. Please stop.

Fortunately, if you only listen to NPR, you'll never have to hear it.

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by nobody9999 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:57PM (#35563286)
>"They" is NPR here, not Fresh Air (which I do listen to). NPR News or All Things Considered is "they." Show me where that laptop story was covered anywhere on NPR or PBS.

Okay. now you're moving the goalposts. All Things Considered is not Fresh Air.

As such, I'm done. Fuck off jerk

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by dang on Sunday April 16, 2023 @11:51PM (#35596671)
Yikes - I didn't see this earlier but this is the kind of thing we ban accounts for, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by ThrowMeAway1618 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:16PM (#35563961)
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html