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Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio

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Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio

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Post by jms18 »

ekianjo wrote: post #15
throwaway2016a wrote: post #9

I love NPR. My wife makes fun of me because sometimes I sit in the car with the battery / radio on after I park just to hear a story finish. New Hampshire Public radio has a lot of local news and features too, which I can't hear anywhere else. I'm sure other markets are the same. You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great. I've also heard a lot from my conservative fri…

>I'm a Libertarian As a libertarian, don't you find the economic news reports from NPS cringeworthy though?

Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal? Cringeworthy?

Edit: Or Planet Money?

Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio

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Post by freehunter »

tomcam wrote: post #34
hprotagonist wrote: post #3

Looking for a "bubble-free" media venue? Not a bad place to start.

Your politics clearly lean left. I emphatically disagree with your assessment. Not surprisingly, I am center right/libertarian.

Is NPR really liberal, or do conservatives just say that because it doesn't have an explicitly conservative spin? It seems like whenever I hear people talking about "the liberal media", the list of names seems to cover basically any journalism outfit that isn't explicitly and overtly conservative. It feels like anything left of Fox News is commonly labeled as liberal media which seems a little off to me.

Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio

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Post by taurath »

throwaway2016a wrote: post #9

I love NPR. My wife makes fun of me because sometimes I sit in the car with the battery / radio on after I park just to hear a story finish. New Hampshire Public radio has a lot of local news and features too, which I can't hear anywhere else. I'm sure other markets are the same. You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great. I've also heard a lot from my conservative fri…

In general it's about story selection. 80% of the "stories of the day" are related to minority rights, empathy stories and a bunch of others. Rural white people are rarely mentioned except in the context of an environmental disaster. I like the stories myself but I definitely feel like the average conservative doesn't feel like they're included in any of the coverage.

Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio

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Post by freehunter »

tomcam wrote: post #35
ilamont wrote: post #31

Surprised that more truckers haven't discovered podcasts.

Where on earth did that comment come from? How stupid do you think truckers are? The article didn't mention podcasts. News flash: Truckers also enjoy 21st century technology.

I hope you can take a step back and realize how rude your comment is.

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Post by morgante »

taurath wrote: post #54
throwaway2016a wrote: post #9

I love NPR. My wife makes fun of me because sometimes I sit in the car with the battery / radio on after I park just to hear a story finish. New Hampshire Public radio has a lot of local news and features too, which I can't hear anywhere else. I'm sure other markets are the same. You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great. I've also heard a lot from my conservative fri…

In general it's about story selection. 80% of the "stories of the day" are related to minority rights, empathy stories and a bunch of others. Rural white people are rarely mentioned except in the context of an environmental disaster. I like the stories myself but I definitely feel like the average conservative doesn't feel like they're included in any of the coverage.

Maybe it's my bias, but I feel like I actually hear a lot of stories about rural white people. Especially since the election, every outlet keeps wanting to do think pieces on their plight.

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Post by JshWright »

weirdstuff wrote: post #36
gozur88 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh. I can't stand Terry Gross. They should call it "Terry Gross Talks About Her Feelings While Interesting Guests Listen And Wonder What They're Doing There."

Yeah, Fresh Air/Terry Gross is pretty caught up in her own bubble, if you ask me. She gets pretty feisty when guests challenge her from time to time, which I enjoy. (Good listening when that happens!)

She gets 'feisty' when guests disagree with her political views, and fawns all over guests age agrees with...

I'm a huge NPR fan (I literally sat in my car crying during Diane Rehm's final sign off), but I really can't take Terry Gross...

Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio

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Post by SomeStupidPoint »

ams6110 wrote: post #47
morganvachon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm a Libertarian and thus social conservative and economically liberally That's fascinating; I've been called Libertarian because I'm the opposite. I'm socially progressive yet fiscally conservative, and from what I've read, there are branches of Libertarianism that can embrace either extreme or a mixture. I've listened to NPR since I was a teenager in the early 90s, and while I don't always agree with the comment…

There's liberal as in "tolerate how other people choose to live" and there's liberal as in "spend a lot of money on big government solutions to social problems" and nobody can claim to be libertarian and be liberal in the latter sense.

Why?

One could argue that the goal of a libertarian is to maximize individual liberty, and plausibly argue that the loss of liberty via taxation is both a faux loss (eg, actually a charge for externalities, not an "extra" cost imposed by others) and liberty maximizing (eg, freedom from concern of unemployment ruining your life is more freeing than the loss of freedom to not pay taxes).

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