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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 robk »

Moru wrote: post #172
kristopolous wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If liberal is defined as "not alt-right" then sure. But if you expect to find prominent socialists or leftist political activists or their ideas on NPR, you'll be waiting a long time. Chomsky, nader, said, hedges, parenti ... none of them get mentioned or make an appearance. Who teamed up with Richard Wolff's radio show? NPR? Nope, it was iHeartMedia. You can find these people on Al Jazeera, the CBC, RussiaToday, the…

As a swede I have a hard time understanding what liberal and conservative is. Here we talk about Left and Right politics. I get the impression USA only has Right and Right+ in swedish terms. Left would be social security, right would be free market / privatise everything. I have to admit that I wasn't paying much attention to politics in my schoolyears but I did try to read some political comic book (comedy central?)…

The equivalent in Sweden is having a discussion about immigration. Liberal Sweden won't even talk about it in any way that could be perceived as critical. Conservative Sweden would.

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Post by mickronome »

kazinator wrote: post #4
ourmandave wrote: post #2

“And I said, ‘Well, so why don’t you stop listening?’” Murphy continued. “And he says, ‘I can’t, because it’s the only station that will go on mile after mile and I can pick it up again.’” Just drove from IA to MI and it's true. Between 90.3 and 92.7 FM there's always an NPR station waiting. Or I could just download their app and listen anywhere / anytime. http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/

It occurs to me that a FM radio should be capable of automatically doing this hand-off, thanks to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System If a station signal goes weak, the radio could scan the FM stations for another station which is known to broadcast the same signal (according to, say, an internal cross-matching database, or some other means).

Yeah RDS does that, and it can do a lot more with proper metadata. In Sweden it has been running with at least basic functions - traffic announcements, channel following, and station names - since 1990.

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Post by chrisan »

prevailrob wrote: post #171

Being from the UK, I take it NPR is the equivalent of Radio 4? (Albeit on a bigger scale, naturally)

You might have to define what Radio 4 is for us in the US.

Here's a blurb about what NPR is: http://www.npr.org/about-npr/178640915/npr-stations-and-publ...

It's basically hundreds of local radio stations that mix local news/flavor with partner stations that have very popular programs

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Post by scarface74 »

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #176
scarface74 wrote: post #174

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I consider myself to be a "bleeding heart libertarian". I'm against the drug war, believe in a strong separation of church an state, live and let live, etc. But I don't mind paying taxes for the government to help people help themselves and to help people who can't help themselves.

That just sounds like a standard progressive liberal (and there's nothing wrong with that). What viewpoints do you consider specifically libertarian?

I haven't heard liberals talk too much about legalizing all drugs. Clinton in the 90s started the whole tough on crime, 3 strikes you're out, crusade. I am against the minimum wage - I think it skews supply and demand and contorts the free market -- but I do believe in the basic income for people who work in the form of an expansion of the earned income tax credit.

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Post by donkeyd »

biofox wrote: post #165
alphaalpha101 wrote: post #117

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I'm not super familiar with American politics. What do you mean by 'fiscally conservative'? You want the Government to lower taxes and lower benefits and such, is that right? Because that sort of 'the market is right, we don't need no government spending in our economy' view.. well.. that just is the same as being economically liberal. But then again Americans seem to use 'liberal' to mean 'left-wing', is that right?…

That's an interesting point I hadn't noticed before. Everyone downvoting the comment should read this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism

It's because the US is slightly messed up in the sense that there's a group of people people who say that they care about "free market" and "less government spending and regulations". At the same time, these people also support protectionism, closed borders and government regulation on things they don't agree with.

On the other side, there's a group that is often called liberal, who support open borders and (often) free international trade, but don't tend to agree with capitalism because they think it increases inequality.

There don't seem to be any true liberals (if you look at the two groups that the US is always talking about) in the full sense of 'economic liberalism'.

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Post by AsyncAwait »

scarface74 wrote: post #185
PhasmaFelis wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That just sounds like a standard progressive liberal (and there's nothing wrong with that). What viewpoints do you consider specifically libertarian?

I haven't heard liberals talk too much about legalizing all drugs. Clinton in the 90s started the whole tough on crime, 3 strikes you're out, crusade. I am against the minimum wage - I think it skews supply and demand and contorts the free market -- but I do believe in the basic income for people who work in the form of an expansion of the earned income tax credit.

I don't believe Clinton is a progressive liberal, but most progressives support these policies, as far as I know.

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Post by fennecfoxen »

donkeyd wrote: post #186
biofox wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an interesting point I hadn't noticed before. Everyone downvoting the comment should read this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism

It's because the US is slightly messed up in the sense that there's a group of people people who say that they care about "free market" and "less government spending and regulations". At the same time, these people also support protectionism, closed borders and government regulation on things they don't agree with. On the other side, there's a group that is often called liberal, who support open borders and (often) f…

You are in error.

There's a major political party which has been saying "free market", "less spending and regulations", and only turned protectionist as of the last election (Republicans) with the election of a populist president. This change hasn't pleased everyone associated with the party. You can read many editorials inveighing against Trump's economic policies in the Wall Street Journal, for instance - whilst also finding plenty of disdain for his erstwhile political opponent Hillary Clinton.

(Concerns about their desire to regulate other things are not addressed by this comment.)

There's also the Libertarians, certainly a minor party, but one which has been consistently against protectionism for longer than I've been alive, and is likely to remain that way until I'm dead.

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Post by Dowwie »

My family has listened to NPR and WNYC for years. I don't recommend anyone rely on it as an exclusive source for information as it does serve special political interests. Two examples that come to mind are the presidential primaries coverage (it was pro-HRC) and more recently coverage on the Saudi Arabia vs Qatar debacle (conveniently omitting Saudi involvement in global terrorism).

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Post by Dowwie »

nwatson wrote: post #7

I listen to a number of NPR podcasts and perhaps I'm misremembering but it seems there's an uptick in the past few years of interviewing and discussing the lives of just "regular folks", people who work blue-collar jobs, people with conservative religious backgrounds, etc., ... and not in a disparaging way. But ... Fresh Air with Terry Gross still largely wanders the fields of the cultural left with nary a nod to alt…

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