Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Open Thread - Tuesday

NPR related comments welcomed.
Posted by Mytwords at 5:02 AM
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6 comments:

Unknown said...

You know it occurs to me that there is one potential problem with this wonderful blog--you might be killing off your own audience. Take me, for example. Thanks in part to your blog, I listen to NPR less and less often. But that also means I visit your blog less often! When I've managed to wean myself completely off of NPR, I'll probably come back occasionally, though, just to be reminded of what that silly but pernicious drug was doing to me.

5/22/07, 11:38 AM
Porter Melmoth said...

True, too true, willie, but I'd rather keep coming back to this blog than keep being led on by NPR. One thing that this blog has helped me with: that I can STAND NeoCon Public Radio much better now than I used to. That's because, thanks to NPR Check, I'm much more wary of them. I have a better perspective as to what they're up to. That way I can be more of a 'researcher' now when I subject myself to NPR's increasingly ludicrous offerings. Why subject myself to increasingly ludicrous offerings? Good question! I think I'm more scathing in my thoughts about NPR because I don't feel so manipulated by them any more. I don't think there's anything wrong with cultivating a little self-righteous indignation when a major media source as NPR willingly trashes itself out. I'm not by nature mean-spirited, but to my mind NPR deserves a lot of skewering because of their corporate-ized, Fox-ized, and now accelerated dumbed down choices in how they want to approach what should be responsible broadcasting. Also, I want to keep abreast (as much as I can stand, anyway) of just how far NPR is taking things. That way I can warn people I care about, so they don't just accept everything that NPR says as gospel. Media is a fascinating and vital subject today, but consuming it has never been so demanding a process. I take some of my deep disappointment in NPR out via this blog and yakking on it (probably too much!). There's something fulfilling about that.
Happily, because this is a sincere blog, there's a rich selection of archives to absorb in case you're a less frequent visitor. Not for the last time do I thank Mytwords for helping us to 'tune in' to the real NPR.

5/22/07, 3:09 PM
Anonymous said...

sadly, I will agree with Willie... in fact, I wrote a comment about this a month back but deleted it before posting.

Part of the reason I'm listening less, I think, is that now I can simply accept that NPR is deeply, deeply flawed and full of all the biases discussed here. Before I found this blog, I would listen in and all too often feel bewildered or perplexed, annoyed... but also isolated in my reaction and tinged with some self-doubt. This blog provided a feeling of... confirmation of my views. So instead of listening to NPR frustration, I tend to not even bother, I just accept that NPR is what it is, and I don't have to bother battling with the radio over the latest disinformation. (I'll add that I've been so very happy to find that other listeners feel the same way I do about Scott Simon.)

Anyway, the principal reason I listen these days ( rarely )is that AAR has chosen suicide by lobotomy, and the rest of the airwaves is pure wasteland.

5/22/07, 5:58 PM
Mytwords said...

I feel like offering a strange thanks for the comments...hmmm...

I'd feel reassured if I knew that there was a chain reaction of thinking people turning off NPR, but I'm shocked at how often relatively intelligent people insist that NPR is substantive and informative--and even liberal! And their audience is growing--scary.

Believe me I often think of just hanging it up and never listening to NPR again.

I hope at least if you drift off, you'll recommend this site to other progressives or anyone looking for evidence of NPR b.s.

5/22/07, 10:00 PM
Unknown said...

Well I hope it's clear, mytwords, that we're basically offering a sincere thanks to you for your work here. You've brought about a community of sorts of people who previously felt isolated in their rather vague distaste for NPR, and you've REALLY helped to confirm and articulate that distaste. And I have recommended to sites to others. I've also flogged this blog on other progressive blogs whenever a relevant topic comes up.

5/23/07, 8:44 AM
Unknown said...

Sorry--"I have recommended this site to others."

5/23/07, 8:45 AM

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