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Under former CEO John Lansing, NPR made increasing diversity, both of its staff and its audience, its "North Star" mission. Berliner says in the essay that NPR failed to consider broader diversity of viewpoint, noting, "In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans." Berliner cited audience estimates that suggested a concurrent falloff in listening by Republicans. this just me, but -- i grew up with WBUR. i have fond memories of dad and i sitting at the dump but not unloading anything because car talk is being so hilarious we are literally tensed like vultures over the radio, like, yes, what next then during the pandemic -- late pandemic -- i got hardcore into NPR again. thinking about it actually makes me want to tune into marketplace again being a bit drunk one night, smoking a zig on a bridge, some lady is all, may i join you? and within a minute or two we're into the episode of the thing with the garbage men in NYC and i am fantastic at accepting other points of view. transgender? of course that's okay. now -- can we stop wasting time and try and understand what's happening here better? and i respect some catch-up airtime after only pretty blonde white girls get on the news for being kidnapped. even still. however -- a year after the pandemic eased off, i'm outside more. and John Lansing like... "another success story from a business owner of color" and it got the point of -- are you fucking kidding me. you are turning yourself into the joke republicans think you are i wrote this whole thread two years ago, about a very similar NPR article. i am wicked liberal and open-minded and even i feel annoyed you're wasting all the airtime on this shit and i miss car talk. |
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how would i fix it? and not be an idiot; be less idiotic? it's a fair question. and arguably much more difficult than tearing something down. so car talk guys were very boston. even hardcore accent. that's not what i cared about. what i cared about was, like... they were beyond hilarious. then longtime fans finally have a car problem and they have an excuse to call car talk and, well, we're huge fans calling car talk with a car problem, and how do we be hilarious too? it's car talk and it simply won't do to not be like this and so one i remember in particular -- sitting at the recycling section at the dump -- was a caller who had purchased a honda del sol, whose previous owner had "lowered" it. and i remember concluding the above; that this woman and her family worked hard to think of a funny way to describe the problem, and they succeeded: "you could catch the bumper over a fat man's shadow" lol. and the answer is: "alright. you call the previous owner. and i guarantee you. he will have the original springs on his garage shelf, where he put them after cutting down the aftermarket ones. and you need them back and he will undoubtedly simply just give them to you for free since he doesn't even remember they're still on the shelf" lol. but also, they were uncannily correct about this sort of thing and the point is: how can you not be on board with all that? then the audience gets into it enough to turn around and elevate it themselves? and this is about cars and LOLs and despite the white boy accent, there was something for everyone in this, and that is why it worked. i don't think lansing's problem is woke, though -- no, instead, he's one of those "we need to target a different market share" and "to do this we need incredibly narrow content that will annoy everyone" and conservatives can eat shit, fox news has been worse for 20 years |
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yes, that's it. it's the same as claiming the matrix as your specific personal trip; refusing to leave it vague enough for everyone to find something personal in it except trans people are fighting for legitimacy. versus the marketing [former] CEO idiot targeting a demographic because, well, these numbers won't do. what about next quarter? and fuck off. go work at microsoft. this is NPR |
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I listen to NPR daily. It’s great radio |
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it can be. mostly i'm too busy at the moment... but back when i wasn't, it very much had the feel of: "to determine if this is any good or not, look up if the program has been on the air for more than ten years" and if it has, it's solid. if it hasn't, it's shit this is just a quick metric, and there are exceptions aplenty in either direction. and i'm just saying it because it's another way of saying "alright, look. this is not really about woke" because you could replace all the tedious "urban" targeted stuff with "programming about shoes" and i like shoes but i'm not the sort to own more than a couple at a time and i will listen to programs about shoes. a few times. then it's like, "shoes again? fuck off" so then you wind up saying, "successful business owner of color segment again? fuck off" it's not about successful business owners of color at all. it's more like someone forcing you to eat nothing but pretzels. pretzels are a wonder of nature, but you'll go mad after only a few days of nothing but pretzels. this is because some pinhead CEO brain decided NPR needed a reboot, we need to target new listeners, etc. instead of just, i dunno, doing what they used to do... shit that is like [show about cars+LOLs] and there's no color in this at all; it's for everyone. conservatives hated NPR because of the live news that skewed against their worldview, but even they like this shit too. even if they haven't discovered it yet. nope. instead, let's switch to a very narrow targeted thing that will put half of america off. even if they are twats this is why you need something like ~public~ radio. so CEO twats can't faff about next quarter and destroy the good shit. not sure what happened here really |
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I don’t think you listen to NPR much. Car talk was a great show, btw. Word matters is pretty good too. Love 1A and Fresh Air. Lots of people grew up on it, and losten to it regardless of political affiliation. Just because some rich idiots want to slander and crush NPR doesnt make it bad https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/ Here listen to this too 16055184-masculinity-needs-big-dick-energy-scott-galloway Btw, what’s wrong with you? |
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https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/ 16055184-masculinity-needs-big-dick-energy-scott-galloway |
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Collapsing economy making young men angry? Obviously a gender identity problem. |
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Collaspes |
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one day. chach will learn how to use a lazy link. and i will shed a tear. it's like watching a baby bird learn to fly |
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Btw, what’s wrong with you? one night, as i was fast asleep, aphex twin ate all my cereal and squarepusher broke my tascam ms-16. then they drank all my goon and wandered out the basement door, of all places, and left it wide open and now there are mice under the water heater, and now everyone thinks i'm weird because i don't like IDM anymore |
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linking link like chach ironically ~ https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2024/04/11/two -public-radio-stations-two-different-business-models-one-fu ture-of-public-radio-in-boston-hangs-in-the-balance/ |
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I don’t think you listen to NPR much. i mean, ok, sure, let's do this one you are totally correct. this opinion is microwaved from, perhaps, late 2022. when i did kind of stop. it was partly the content, partly i only got into listening again because walking was this thing where people either cross the street or get mad at me for not crossing street and gtfo because pandemic. and i got hooked again. and i am deeply fond of it. and there was still some of that. but then there's all this horseshit. and from there, i suppose, i throw my "10 years" metric under the bus. it's just me trying to describe what i'm seeing in a succinct way. it could be more off than i realize, even for late 2022. or it could be much better now but now i have this, i dunno, "i don't own a TV 2.0" thing going on: i have wasted so much of my life "watching stuff" and "listening to stuff" and i don't mean music [on cans now ~ the faint - the conductor] i mean stuff like NPR where it's like TV or netflix and i have to either focus or GTFO no good. this american life? fuck off tv; 99% of netflix. no arguments. it's more about how, that's an old thing now. and boooo nothing fills the void of some old shows lost; you're not even trying but yes. fuck off to watching shows. i haven't seen it. i don't give a fuck. but if we're hanging out and you want to watch a thing together? that's a bit anti-social to sit there in the dark and watch a netflix episode but if you really want; it'd be anti-social of me to refuse. and so it is when people talk about watching stuff. this is more like, not 2.0, but "I Don't Own A TV 4.20" where it's really... oh you really want? sure. but on my own? that's like asking me if i ever knit, or do cross-stitch. like: i could, theoretically, i guess, but... sorry, urge never quite hits; bless if it does it for you though so keep NPR. however you want. i'm just sayin'. etc |
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You’re like manic and barely coherent. I’m guessing that you’re not really well educated? Or a drop out at best. Seriously, do some part time university studies. In-class. It’ll help reform your mind and allow you to put some use to your thoughts. I’d say first take a 101 course in critical thinking, and then maybe a course in cultural studies or communications. I’d suggest sociology but 1st year sociology will probably have you arguing more with the professor than you will be in critical thinking class. Just remember it’s not about you. Take it in. Do your work. Asses once completed. |
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Im not trying to attack you, but i guess im being a little irreverently insensitive. It’s just that in the 34’ish years I’ve been chatting online, i havent read anything like you for decades. You kinda sound like an 18 year old version of me, but with more drug induced brain damage. |
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I suppose today’s social media counts as a drug that can bring out pre-existing conditions |
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>>> Or a drop out at best. >>> Seriously, do some part time university studies. In-class. >>> It’ll help reform your mind and allow you to put some use >>> to your thoughts. I’d say first take a 101 course in >>> critical thinking, you're a pre-existing condition. |
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>> 34’ish years pls link to ur usenet posts |
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otherwise that is definitely WP:original research init |
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i'm old enough that i've finally become irrelevant myself. you shits are a full generation behind me, and you're out in the bleachers with your walkers yelling at me to catch the fuck up sonny |
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u not just dads u GRANDPAS |
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hi, sorry, you totally dodged my point. which is that NPR focused on making content for "america," full-stop. then some twit CEO brain in charge and "WE NEED TO TARGET THE URBAN DEMOGRAPHIC" and people, calm down, we're not blaming the "urban demographic" here -- we're braming the twit CEO blane |
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i mean, do people of color understand the scam they are taking on as small business owners anyways? c'mon |
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owning some small local shit biz is a colorblind tragedy |
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i think property is the only colorblind scam left. be a landlord or be an ass-licking liberal |
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im eating granola now eating so much granola mentioning because NPR thred |
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god that must suck you're some acidhead goth. you quit drinking and have kids. then your kids are competing with everyone else's kids and you're still the weird acidhead goth and SHUTUP DAD hawkwind is grandpa shit |
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being the cool older brother is deceptively easier than being the dad ~ the world we now live in |
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clean out that swamp cooler wit rihanna |
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