Yeah, it's ridiculous. I wouldn't mind just tuning out the other crap for the 1 story in 10 that has real news. I'm not expecting them to cover any right wing issues, but the sky could be falling and NPR would still interview some crazy homeless guy who is mad the cops won't let him pee on the sidewalk.
just some old scientist droning on about whales
With segments like that, you could at least learn a thing or two about whales. It's not the most important thing for you at the time, but at least whales are interesting. The way NPR does this though, is to barely even say anything about the whales. They'll find a way to turn it into virtue signalling. It's surreal. They added so much noise to their segments that the signal got buried, and then for some reason they went back and removed the signal. Wtf?
I tried one of their science podcasts, the episode was about a new telescope being built on some island. I was expecting idiotic "muh science" positivism, but I thought at least I will learn about telescopes, I like telescopes. They decided to immediately lead with "but the natives think the mountain is sacred so the telescope is racist". Woah, wasn't expecting that kind of next-level liberalism. Then the guy said "but you know the natives destroy the environment too, they're hunting endangered whales". The woman replied "but there's so few of them it's okay, besides we've oppressed brown people so long they should be allowed to have a comeback now" (wtf lol!?!?). They did about three rounds of nuh-uh, yuh-uh, before I couldn't take it anymore... For all I know they went on doing that for the remaining 50 minutes or however long the episode had left. It's not even the politics, it's just abysmal, clown programming.
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