I used to listen to NPR a lot, and I am a Democratic Party voter. What frankly turned me off of NPR was when I started hearing words like unhoused people, instead of homeless people, and people who give birth instead of women having babies, and Latinx instead of Latinos, I intuited that NPR has taken too much of a turn for me. I’m not th…
I used to listen to NPR a lot, and I am a Democratic Party voter. What frankly turned me off of NPR was when I started hearing words like unhoused people, instead of homeless people, and people who give birth instead of women having babies, and Latinx instead of Latinos, I intuited that NPR has taken too much of a turn for me. I’m not that kind of a Democrat. I do believe we should have national public radio, but they should stick to objectively reporting the news and then the opinion folks should give a variety of opinions that mainly focus on the center right, the center left, and the actual center (!), but given today’s intense polarization in our culture, and therefore also our politics, I don’t think that’s going to be a reality. And that’s a shame.
I used to listen to NPR a lot, and I am a Democratic Party voter. What frankly turned me off of NPR was when I started hearing words like unhoused people, instead of homeless people, and people who give birth instead of women having babies, and Latinx instead of Latinos, I intuited that NPR has taken too much of a turn for me. I’m not that kind of a Democrat. I do believe we should have national public radio, but they should stick to objectively reporting the news and then the opinion folks should give a variety of opinions that mainly focus on the center right, the center left, and the actual center (!), but given today’s intense polarization in our culture, and therefore also our politics, I don’t think that’s going to be a reality. And that’s a shame.