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aTm · Post by **aTm** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:23 am

eCat wrote:I don't know if I am changing or they are, but I really used to like listening to NPR - it was kind of a ying to my redneck yang

but now I've really started paying attention to the details of what they say and how they present it. I mostly roll my eyes at them at this point.

My biggest issue is what qualifies as an expert to them. They're really bad about taking a topic and then bringing someone who is obviously heavily biased in the topic.

Like a report on women supporting Hillary Clinton and then they have a former women's rights advocate interviewing 3 women to give this solidify the story's narrative with the listener. That was yesterday.

Today is about the BLM protesters interrupting Bill Clinton and trying to cast him in a bad light for his 1994 crime bill. Its easy to be a 20 year engaged protester and forget about the crack epidemic in the inner city in the early 90's. Not to mention that Bill Clinton has probably done as much if not more for black America than Barak Obama - and hell, I'm not even a Bill Clinton fan. Don't ask me what he's done - I just remember everyone saying Bill Clinton was the first black president.

The one thing that both of those stories had in common is the persons doing the interviews might have been 25 at the most - and I think I'm just at the point where I have trouble believing most 25 year old have anything substantive to add to the adult conversation.

I realize thats dangerously close to me yelling at them to get off my lawn but I know my world view at 25 - far too idealistic while being completely self serving.
And I'm not seeing much different in them.

At any rate, I'd like to think NPR should be more responsible - they no longer have me thinking about the topic, they have me thinking about why they are trying to shape my opinion with low budget editorials disguised as investigative reporting.

So the next fund drive, I'm keeping my $10. That'll show 'em!

I've heard that there is a "Fair and Balanced" news source out there nowadays.

Cletus · Post by **Cletus** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:26 am

Podcasts

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:10 am

I listen to NPR when I'm not listening to sports radio in the car. I never have the perspective that news is biased, other than Fox which isn't biased so much as it is a show. I just decide if it's well done or not.

People get so protective of their own opinions that they can't stand hearing anything that might challenge it in some small way. Frankly, I think we were more engaged intellectually before the internet or cable news came along.

crashcourse · Post by **crashcourse** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:17 pm

because I watch more cable and read more goatpen then you I'm smarter then you?

that's a scary argument

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:20 pm

No, you're dumber than me if I just read books, newspapers and magazines and didn't waste time on the internet

crashcourse · Post by **crashcourse** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:06 pm

" Frankly, I think we were more engaged intellectually before the internet or cable news came along."

the scary argument is being exposed to people like you, ecat, hedge, Brooklyn, rat yeah I said rat, Cletus, even AA etc etc would have never happened without internet on a daily basis. Are we all dumber for being here ?

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:50 pm

What do you mean "even AA"?

HOW DARE YOU!

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:06 pm

crashcourse wrote:" Frankly, I think we were more engaged intellectually before the internet or cable news came along."

the scary argument is being exposed to people like you, ecat, hedge, Brooklyn, rat yeah I said rat, Cletus, even AA etc etc would have never happened without internet on a daily basis. Are we all dumber for being here ?

Well, this place has actually gotten saner over the years, inverse to the rest of the web, which started out good and is now utter chaos. We started utter chaos on cnnsi.com. Maybe it's all our fault and we just sit back and sip scotch and torment AA for fun now.

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:28 pm

Torment me? That's hurtful. Going to my safe place now.

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:51 pm

Scotch and porn

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:57 pm

Saint wrote:Scotch and porn

That more or less summed up my life before the existence of the internet as well...

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:22 am

Who's crash?

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 11:18 am

hedge wrote:
Saint wrote:Scotch and porn
That more or less summed up my life before the existence of the internet as well...

Vodka and porn would be life *after* the internet

crashcourse · Post by **crashcourse** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:26 am

and another one bites the dust

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/blogs/the- ... 53457.html

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:31 am

She did porn? Eh.

The last I remember of her she was chilling Flava and Vern Troyer, or something, in the Surreal Life on VH1. RIP.

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:56 am

IIRC, her clit looked like a big ole donkey dick

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 11:56 am

So steroids does the flip side to women, what it does to men?

(that is an image I'm glad I never saw)

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 12:53 pm

shrunken testicles

either Arnold or Stallone had that problem at one time

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 1:44 pm

I don't

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Thu Apr 28, 2016 1:27 pm

if you want a good movie for a date night with your wife that you will enjoy, take her to see Mr. Right with Sam Rockwell - I think its in the theaters. It may be on DVD

at any rate. its a romantic comedy but he's a hit man so its got some guy shit in it.

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