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Sort of. I listen to NPR nearly every day, and it's difficult to do so. Lots, and lots, and lots of of the same theme...women, women of color, LGBTQ. They pound the same narrative into your head constantly.

I'm all for human rights. I listen to NPR because they report on human rights. But FFS, I'm always left cringing and thinking "does the audience really demand this level of progressivism?"

It's so bad now that I can't trust them to report objectively.

Wanna solve your money problems? Spin up a conservative arm and let it rip. With the same journalistic standards of course.

NPR and the News Hour, it is hard to take them seriously anymore, and I run a household of people who feel strongly about the environment, human rights and worker rights. Some of us are women, LGBTQ and we have friends who are people of color.




> Lots, and lots, and lots of of the same theme...women, women of color, LGBTQ.

Your groups of concern represent 51%, 21%, and ~10% of the US population.

What is the appropriate amount of time to spend on themes concerning those groups?

I am not immune to that same feeling, but sometimes I wonder if it's just a discomfort with no longer always being a member of the relevant default.


No, not at all. They aren't focusing on the core issue. Freedom and equality for all. Fighting for a certain group is at best a band-aid.

They cover but stay clear of the worker rights that disproportionately help those groups. It is a disservice.


Overemphasizing the previously-underemphasized is how social corrections begin. It's often noisy, myopic, superficial, misdirected, and even ignorant. But completely human.

And yes it can be uncomfortable for those of us who are losing our default stature as nature's chosen ones.

The pendulum swings, inevitably. The successful case we can hope for (work toward?) is that the swings are damping over time. This doesn't have much historical precedent, however.


Since these are crucial issues and the framing grates a little, I wish they’d reframe every single story with a gender/race/identity angle in terms of freedom.


No news agency is objective. It’s never been true.


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