Is NPR Good

[Tweet]

NPR is simultaneously too liberal and full of Nice Proper Republicans depending on who you talk to. I have, for better or worse, have several of their podcasts and programs in my regular programing at this point. So I ask the board at large- is NPR good?

[thebosma]

It’s reprehensible that they refused to call the “enhanced interrogation” at Guantanamo torture when pretty much every other major outlet would at the time and they aren’t without their issues outside of that, but public radio is a net positive for the culture at large. My local NPR station growing up gave me exposure to a wide array of classical music, A Prairie Home Companion, and special interest programming like Car Talk. It’s different in every city I’m sure, I know the Peoria station doesn’t play classical music anymore (much to my dad’s dismay), but I think it is still mostly good as far as “media in the US” goes

[krentist]

Garrison Keillor apologist, the bosma

[concertgoer]

Fresh Air, Through Line, and This American Life are all podcasts I listen to on a regular basis. NPR is good.

[zircona1]

We listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me all the time on car trips.

[chvrchbarrel]

serial gave me a reason to live for like 3 months but i dont really care much about npr otherwise

when i was like 13 i downloaded "red dragon tattoo" off kazaa and the album was listed as "all songs considered" so i thought that was a fountains of wayne album for a long time

[dij22]

Thankful that tweet is unafraid to tackle the tough questions like "are objectively good things good?"

[doso]

I rarely listen these days, but yeah, it’s good.