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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 12:10 PM Oct 2020

Per NPR this morning....

an impeached President, who has overseen a pandemic incompetently, 200K plus dead, rampant corruption, who is a pathological liar and utterly amoral etc. has had an......."unconventional presidency". (rolls eyes)

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Per NPR this morning.... (Original Post) Thomas Hurt Oct 2020 OP
NPR has been infected by Koch Brothers Money. It shows. kairos12 Oct 2020 #1
I almost can't bear listening to NPR anymore. In the last two weeks, spooky3 Oct 2020 #2
I enjoy their local Chicago programming better than their national news. mucifer Oct 2020 #3
Agreed. I'm quite fond of WBEZ. As for NPR, they could've used Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2020 #4
Nice, Polite, Republicans nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 2020 #5

spooky3

(34,492 posts)
2. I almost can't bear listening to NPR anymore. In the last two weeks,
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 12:17 PM
Oct 2020

They presented stories on (a) suburban female voters near Detroit, and (b) Latinx voters in Arizona. In both cases they spent more time talking with Trump voters than others. Only at the end of the story, did they present polling data showing vast majorities of each group’s favoring Biden-Harris. Anecdotes are not good data...

On edit—an example of polling data showing wide margins favoring Democrats:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/14/michigan-swing-states-428896

mucifer

(23,576 posts)
3. I enjoy their local Chicago programming better than their national news.
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 12:21 PM
Oct 2020

They have some great reporting here and great local shows. WBEZ is great despite the koch brothers.

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,505 posts)
4. Agreed. I'm quite fond of WBEZ. As for NPR, they could've used
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 12:28 PM
Oct 2020

whatever they were paying Juan Williams and Mara... whatever her name is, to pay for actual journalists.

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