The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of illegally yielding to Trump’s demands that the network be financially punished for its news coverage.
NPR is definitely making out like a bandit, they were using the loss of funding in their fundraising lately so they kinda get two wins in a sense.
Odd thing to me is it never even changed their coverage much even after the cuts, they’ve always both-sides with guests since they’re the go-to with standing politicians, a little more than half being Republicans. The left leaning thing mostly just comes from facts having a liberal bias, as they say. Lol
In fact, they overcorrected in the other direction imo, leaning slightly right and both sides-ing things that should never be both sides-ed.
Conservatives brains have been so fried by propaganda at this point, that it was of course for naught as they all still believe NPR is like socialist propaganda or some shit, and immediately ignore everything they report.
Maybe, although your standard “we have this congressmen to talk about the last thing Trump did” just depends. It’s usually like, whoever is on some committee, so if it’s an R they bullshit the interview, if it’s a D, the world is ending. It only feels a bit overcorrected if they don’t push back on the bullshit, but the last interview I heard did include that. Just not always.
Still a majority of the programming is like, “this random town has an annual event that’s weird but cool, but it’s under threat from climate change” which is just like… apolitical if you understand facts.
I don’t have any specific examples saved or anything, but as someone who listened to NPR on a regular basis for years, there were tons of times since 2016 where the coverage absolutely leaned right, or where you can tell that they were softening certain things so as to not appear liberal.
Ah that’s a while back. Makes me wonder when they started getting that accusation of being liberal and what kind of coverage that was. Bush era?
No, it was after Obama and during Trump when it really ramped up noticeably. And I know I’m not the only one because I’ve seen other people saying the same thing.
But I guess they were getting the accusation before that… They just didn’t seem to care until Trump.