I'll admit up until 2016ish I was all on board the NPR train and then how they did Bernie dirty soured me. I slowly stopped listening. First during the day. Then drive time. Then weekends. I've been free of the NPR virus for about 2 years or so.
Now when it comes on, its so obviously plays to those with LiberalRot in their brain, it's fucking jarring. No one naturally talks that way. No one naturally thinks this way. Their even-handed, means-tested takes are fucking terrible and honestly, usually kind of infantile. It reminds of when my 6 year old pretends to be an adult.
I'll admit up until 2016ish I was all on board the NPR train and then how they did Bernie dirty soured me. I slowly stopped listening. First during the day. Then drive time. Then weekends. I've been free of the NPR virus for about 2 years or so.
Now when it comes on, its so obviously plays to those with LiberalRot in their brain, it's fucking jarring. No one naturally talks that way. No one naturally thinks this way. Their even-handed, means-tested takes are fucking terrible and honestly, usually kind of infantile. It reminds of when my 6 year old pretends to be an adult.
same happened to me. i love their interviews but the politics were horrid.