NPR: Books We Love
apps.npr.org
NPR: Books We Love
1–10 of 13 posts
Re: NPR: Books We Love
#2[deleted]
Re: NPR: Books We Love
#3As someone who reads a fare bit (mostly non-fiction besides the mandatory "before falling asleep" novel), I've never gotten much value from looking at these type of books lists.
The main process by which I find a book is that I get interested in a particular subject (botany, biographies of politicians, ..) and then seek out books that fit that subject. And then when I narrow it down to a couple books I can read reviews on things like goodreads / .. to determine which one I'll buy.
When I'm presented with these endless "book lists" I get some sort of paralysis where I have so many different books on different subjects in front of me that I can't internally compare them and decide which one I would want to read. So I end up just closing the page having gotten nothing out of it.
I guess a different kind of person might do the opposite and start by choosing a book out of one of those lists and then get interested in the subject as the second step
Re: NPR: Books We Love
#4I consider myself fairly well-read, so I was surprised to find that I didn't spot a single book I had even heard of before on this list.
Re: NPR: Books We Love
#5NPR's fascination with and fetishization of race is sad to see. The fact that they list the 1619 Project (an ahistoric and well debunked project) as a "book we love" was all I needed to see. The mask fell off and the leftist/wokeism bias is on full display.
Re: NPR: Books We Love
#6NPR's fascination with and fetishization of race is sad to see. The fact that they list the 1619 Project (an ahistoric and well debunked project) as a "book we love" was all I needed to see. The mask fell off and the leftist/wokeism bias is on full display.
Everything has bias. What’s wrong with a leftist bias? Isn’t a complaint of bias in itself bias?
Re: NPR: Books We Love
#7NPR's fascination with and fetishization of race is sad to see. The fact that they list the 1619 Project (an ahistoric and well debunked project) as a "book we love" was all I needed to see. The mask fell off and the leftist/wokeism bias is on full display.
Everything has bias. What’s wrong with a leftist bias? Isn’t a complaint of bias in itself bias?
Everything has bias. What's wrong with an alt-right bias? Isn't a complaint of bias in itself a bias?
A publicly funded media arm having an ideological bias is scary.
Re: NPR: Books We Love
#8NPR's fascination with and fetishization of race is sad to see. The fact that they list the 1619 Project (an ahistoric and well debunked project) as a "book we love" was all I needed to see. The mask fell off and the leftist/wokeism bias is on full display.
Everything has bias. What’s wrong with a leftist bias? Isn’t a complaint of bias in itself bias?
My top concern about its bias is how overtly biased a publicly funded radio station is with its embrace of wokeism — an ideology that is overwhelmingly unpopular with the public.
Re: NPR: Books We Love
#9[deleted]
Re: NPR: Books We Love
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything has bias. What’s wrong with a leftist bias? Isn’t a complaint of bias in itself bias?
Everything has bias. What's wrong with an alt-right bias? Isn't a complaint of bias in itself a bias? A publicly funded media arm having an ideological bias is scary.
Isn’t bias simply a matter of perspective? Isn’t it simply relative to one’s own bias? A consequence of how one measures it?