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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 freehunter »

DaniloDias wrote: post #67
freehunter wrote: post #55

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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.

It sounds very rude, there's no other way to read it when someone says "newsflash" or "how stupid do you think they are". No where did the parent imply truckers don't use 21st century technology, they just mentioned another option that hadn't been discussed in the article.

I see this here all the time, someone leaves a very rude comment and then they or someone else argues that it might not have been intended as being rude, but there are certain words and phrases that, any time you use them, you should be aware that they will always be interpreted as a rude remark. "newsflash" is one of them. "How stupid do you think... is" is another. Words have meanings and when you use them you should understand how someone else is going to read those words. That comment was intentionally rude, for absolutely no good reason.

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Post by InitialLastName »

justadeveloper2 wrote: post #236
AsyncAwait wrote: post #187

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

The Clintons, as far as I can tell, are some kind of crime family masquerading as career public servants.

Either that or career public servants who have been painted by their opponents as a crime family for decades.

In practice, not sure there's a difference. When everybody insists the Emperor's clothes are nice...

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Post by benjohnson »

MarkMc wrote: post #219
Clubber wrote: post #199

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>What do you mean by 'fiscally conservative'? You want the Government to lower taxes and lower benefits and such, is that right? To me it means balancing the budget and actually working off debt. Right now, that means higher taxes. Being responsible with the treasury rather than borrowing with no intent to pay it back. Spending responsibly and ensuring the spending is not wasteful or kickbacks to political cronies, e…

Why is paying off debt so important when long-term interest rates are so low? For example, the yield on 30-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities is currently 0.92%. If the government sold these bonds to invest in long-term infrastructure projects, wouldn't that boost the economy enough to outweigh the increase in debt? https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...

Government debt is a burden on the next generation - in that light, some consider it immoral.

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Post by brianwawok »

benjohnson wrote: post #253
MarkMc wrote: post #219

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Why is paying off debt so important when long-term interest rates are so low? For example, the yield on 30-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities is currently 0.92%. If the government sold these bonds to invest in long-term infrastructure projects, wouldn't that boost the economy enough to outweigh the increase in debt? https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...

Government debt is a burden on the next generation - in that light, some consider it immoral.

Cool, so let's pull out of all wars and use that money to repay the debt. Win/win, right?

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Post by taurath »

matt4077 wrote: post #149
taurath wrote: post #54

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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.

Is it possible that you would consider any story that isn't about a white heterosexual man one of those? I'm really wondering, because I could see myself keeping a running tally like this once I thought I noticed a trend–kinda like noticing how they put pumpkin into everything in the fall. But of course, 80% is actually pretty close to the number of Americans that are not white heterosexual men. We may just have gott…

I don't think there's much of an overrepresentation - I haven't heard a human interest piece on a rural/conservative person on there that didn't deal with the opioid crisis in the last 6 months - and I listen every day. I look back to where I grew up which was a much more conservative rural area and frequently think about how I'd never feel like any of the stories on NPR would apply to me.

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Post by koheripbal »

eighthnate wrote: post #218
patrickg_zill wrote: post #197

This is a PR piece. It has no correlative relationship to reality. Source: knowing truckers, having them in my family, extended family, friends of family etc. for 40 years. They all have XM/Sirius at this point. None listen to NPR. Why were no statistics about truckers and NPR quoted? Because they wouldn't have supported the thrust of the article.

Not only that. The publication was founded by the same people who founded PBS and NPR. "whose members were leaders in founding the PBS and National Public Radio." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_(newspaper) This article is like an "article" by foxnews saying everyone is listening to foxnews talk radio. It's pretty much advertisement. And all the comments here is rather praising NPR is rather suspicious as well.

PBS (and thus NPR) federal funding might be on the chopping block with the next federal budget, so it's not surprising to see pieces trying to get out ahead of that.

I grew up on NRP, and I LOVE This American Life, Garrison Keillor, and the reruns of Click and Clack, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that they have a pretty left leaning agenda.

The Brian Lehrer show used the anniversary of Pearl Harbor to discuss how Trump might create Muslim concentration camps in America.

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Post by taurath »

Bartweiss wrote: post #241
morgante wrote: post #57

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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.

I think a lot of sources generally treated as liberal have swerved in their coverage over the last ~year, since Trump began to look credible. I'd argue that stretch is non-representative compared to, say, 2014, but I'd also argue you can still see a distinctive outlook when they do cover those topics. A source like Vox covers urban/coastal issues from the 'inside', treating first-hand sources as credible and writing…

You hit the nail on the head - and nothing really turns off a viewership than being "taught" about yourself. 90% of conservative talk radio is "teaching" about how liberals think.

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Post by murph-almighty »

cafard wrote: post #228
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…

If I ever had to move a lot of Make America Great Again merchandise, I would license clips from "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." I have two main difficulties with NPR. First, as a baby boomer, I wonder whether my generation will let go. WAMU still plays old Car Talk shows on Saturday morning, a couple of years after one of the brothers died. Garrison Keillor did, finally, let go, but it took him a while. Second, so much…

>WAMU still plays old Car Talk shows on Saturday morning, a couple of years after one of the brothers died.

I occasionally listen to the syndicated podcast. I know next to nothing about cars. Minus the 'forwards from grandma' style jokes that occasionally pop up in the beginning it's a quality program.

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Post by colordrops »

leadingthenet wrote: post #167
colordrops wrote: post #100

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I'm a Bernie supporting far left liberal, and NPR has a clear neo-liberal (i.e. central-conservative globalist) agenda.

> Bernie supporting far left liberal Those words don't mean what you think they do.

What do they mean, enlighten me

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Post by albedoa »

DaniloDias wrote: post #67
freehunter wrote: post #55

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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.

If you read his other comments it's clear that he's not doing a bit. That is just who he is.
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