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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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criddell wrote: post #78
mrbill wrote: post #33

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> You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great. "Alexa, play NPR" also works. It will use the ZIP code from your Amazon account and play the local NPR affiliate from either TuneIn or iHeartRadio. This is how I listen to it at home - one Echo Dot (connected to a Tivoli Audio Model One) in the "office", and another using its built-in speaker, in the bedroom.

Do you know if you can get it to play out-of-state NPR stations? I'm not a fan of my local affiliate.

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

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criddell wrote: post #78
mrbill wrote: post #33

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> You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great. "Alexa, play NPR" also works. It will use the ZIP code from your Amazon account and play the local NPR affiliate from either TuneIn or iHeartRadio. This is how I listen to it at home - one Echo Dot (connected to a Tivoli Audio Model One) in the "office", and another using its built-in speaker, in the bedroom.

Do you know if you can get it to play out-of-state NPR stations? I'm not a fan of my local affiliate.

By going to https://alexa.amazon.com, "music, video and books", tunein, picking the Dot I wanted to play through, and then I searched for KGOU (Oklahoma City NPR), I was able to play that station.

You might be able to say "Alexa, play KGOU" (or whatever station you want).

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freehunter wrote: post #52
tomcam wrote: post #34

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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.

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Post by dmckeon »

ilamont wrote: post #31

Surprised that more truckers haven't discovered podcasts.

Next time you're on a road trip, stop at a good-sized truck stop and spend some time looking at the technology and radio aisle. These are folks who use a lot of technology, of many flavors.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

SomeStupidPoint wrote: post #75
djrogers wrote: post #68

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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.

Does that argument extend to courts and police? If not, why not? Do the same reasons not apply to healthcare?

Healthcare costs a hundred times more. That makes it almost incomparable. And has knock-on effects like different people wanting different styles of coverage with very different price schedules.

Courts/police are relatively straightforward and cheap, and act as an enabler for contracts and personal choice.

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Post by MBCook »

stevenwoo wrote: post #63
freehunter wrote: post #52

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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.

I tend to think that NPR is liberal, though they try to be balanced.

My problem with them is I find they try to bend over backwards to present the alternate viewpoint even in situations where it clearly makes almost no sense. It's always frustrated me about the election coverage even in much more normal years.

I distinctly remember once hearing them have a piece about how old milk is good for you (or something like that) and then shortly after presenting the "alternate viewpoint" that milk causes cancer. Maybe I have the order flipped. I just found it so laughably stupid that they thought they needed to justify it with the other side.

That may not have been one of their normal news breaks, it could've been some other kind of program of theirs. But that idea has stuck with me.

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Post by MBCook »

SomeStupidPoint wrote: post #76
vermontdevil wrote: post #71

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Rush Limbaugh

If you can't tell the difference between NPR (on average) and Limbaugh, you've been huffing too much bias.

That doesn't seem like a very constructive reply.

I'd say AM talk radio is probably the closest thing there is to a conservative NPR.

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Post by ryandrake »

astrodust wrote: post #46
barsonme wrote: post #17

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_Probably_ just a typo, imo. Then again, I've never found two libertarians who could agree on what being libertarian actually means, so maybe not.

Doesn't libertarian mean whatever the hell you want it to be because libertarian?

For quite a while recently, Libertarian meant "Embarrassed Republican Who Doesn't Want To Admit He Votes Republican Every Election Even Though He Swears He Doesn't Like Either Candidate"
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