SlavaOn said:
NPR is the only station that I listen to during my commute to and from work.
One would have thought that National Public Radio, which boasts of its independence since it exists on public donations, is not taking sides... Wrong.
Ever since last year, it is all Trump, Trump, Trump. I remember in early November, right before presidential elections, they went through a poll about Trump's popularity. I do not recall who were they polling from (or who were the pollsters), but Trump was compared to some ridiculous things - like vomit or head lice. And they said head lice won - a couple weeks later Trump won the presidential election!
This was the lowest point that a public radio station could get down to, in my opinion.
From that point on, Trump became the punch bag for anything that happens in the US. My conclusion: NPR is a propaganda radio...
I think your hunch is correct. I was also an adherent listener as well back in the day. NPR has morphed, or maybe I was just plane ignorant and lazy to investigate there dictation, for an alternative perspective as to there storytelling.
I listen less now, but I do feel it's important to hear there distortions, implying truth. It serves me as means of reference, and as a means of understanding how many souls, are so very deceived.
Current listening statistics (via wiki):
_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Audience
According to 2009, NPR statistics, about 20.9 million listeners tune into NPR each week.[46] According to 2015 figures, 87% of the NPR terrestrial public radio audience and 67% of the NPR podcast audience is white.[47] According to the 2012 Pew Research Center 2012 News Consumption Survey, NPR listeners tend to be highly educated, with 54% of regular listeners being college graduates and 21% having some college.[48] NPR's audience is almost exactly average in terms of the sex of listeners (49% male, 51% female).[48] NPR listeners have higher incomes than average (the 2012 Pew study showed that 43% earn over $75,000, 27% earn between $30,000 and $75,000).[48] The Pew survey found that the NPR audience tends Democratic (17% Republican, 37% independent, 43% Democratic) and liberal (21% conservative, 39% moderate, 36% liberal).[48]
And as you are becoming more aware, you may be unable to find very few mainstream connections in the states actually practicing any form of real Journalism, like in the old days.
According to wiki:
"The National Public Radio serves a.s a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations". NPR's flagships are two drive time news broadcasts, Morning Edition and the afternoon All Things Considered; both are carried by most NPR member stations, and are two of the most popular radio programs in the country.[3][4]
One can understand they too have an agenda, considering there columns such as the daily "Opinion's":
Hosted by NPR: Jan. 6 2017
How Russia's Disinformation Campaign Could Extend Its Tentacles
_http://www.npr.org/2017/01/06/508032496/how-russias-disinformation-campaign-could-extend-its-tentacles
So to me, it's just another rag on the listening dial with very little to say about reality, and more about how to be hypnotized. And negatively polarized to and by the Deep State agenda.
NPR Disinformation on Venezuela
August 25, 2017 by Stephen Lendman
http://stephenlendman.org/2017/08/npr-disinformation-venezuela/
Snip, lead paragraph:
National Public Radio (NPR) operates like other media scoundrels – reporting disinformation, Big Lies and fake news on major issues, suppressing or sanitizing what listeners most need to know.
NPR long ago betrayed the public trust. Established in 1971, it promised to be an alternative to commercial media, “promoting personal growth rather than corporate gain…speak(ing) with many voices, many dialects.”
Instead it’s a voice for wealth, power and privilege, polar opposite its public pledge.Corporate funders demand no less. So do dark forces in Washington.
Your instincts serve you well SlavaOn.