The Goat Pen

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!

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 ?

Saint wrote:Scotch and porn

hedge wrote:

Saint wrote:Scotch and porn

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