Wife used to make fun of me. Now she is adicted.
Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
61–70 of 288 posts
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#62There are many areas where instead, you only find stations of the conservative media. IMO the article doesn't tell the whole story.
Conservative media doesn't have a monopoly on criticizing scientists since the Damore incident.
I'm not sure I follow what you're claiming... Was Damore's memo a scientific article? I must have missed that...
Are you referring to his (intentionally vague) reference to a PhD program on his LinkedIn page?
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I must be ridiculously liberal because when I listen to NPR and they have a conservative on and that conservative says stuff that is fairly objectively untrue ( see recent Obamacare repeal attempt and public justifications for it) they never challenge them.
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Did you hear the Gene Simmons interview?
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#65Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#66As much as I like NPR, my politics have slowly drifted left over the years, and it's amazing how differently the same shows and hosts now sound to me through a more critical filter. To see what I mean, I recommend browsing through https://twitter.com/npr_watch (not my account, and I'm not affiliated in any way).
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Is it possible that the comment is actually a dig at the quality of the article?
I wouldn't assume it to be a rude comment.
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Why? For he simple reason that the more money funnels through the government, the less choice an individual has in how to use it. It’s about power, and in our world, money is power.
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#69Wonder if AM is covered everywhere throughout the country . Here in India radio in trucks was there for a very short period of time till side loaded cassettes I, CDnd side loaded MP3 took over. I think we never had great "talk" content.Even in 2017 I tune to BBC1 , world service and VOA in my car via internet but I get mocked a lot. Guess no one else does it. People here are used to side loaded MP3 music and not so intellectual Bollywood FM radio.
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#70I 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…
Hey hey, another New Hampshire native! It also helps that, depending on where you live, NHPR is the most entertaining programming available. The Exchange is a very high quality current events show, and the host is incredibly good at her job. I would listen to that when traveling up to PSU for school during my senior year. If you find yourself north of Tilton, NH, you're not going to have much choice in radio programm…
Or, you know, the three NHPR signals, the multiple VPR state border blasters, Maine Public Radio, most of the tilton stations, or the Canadian border blasters we get.