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I think I ditched NPR around the run-up to Obama's election, amidst the hand-wringing over "Is Obama too black?" and "Is Obama black enough?" That and Iraq, Iraq, Iraq at the time.

They softball people they support, will hardly ever interview people they don't, and are generally pretty dismissive of those of us in "flyover country." The unceremonious dumping of A Prairie Home Companion, which wasn't exactly my schtick but provided a little variety at least, made their coastal preference clear.

Hell, I already disliked NPR for their bullying in Congress of various Class D stations, pretending that they needed a larger clearance for bandwidth than actual engineers would testify to. They're a big dog pretending to be an underdog.

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> The unceremonious dumping of A Prairie Home Companion, which wasn't exactly my schtick but provided a little variety at least, made their coastal preference clear.

WHaaa? Garrison Keillor hand picked Chris Thile to be his successor on the show. (A truly inspired choice, IMHO.) Chris gave the show a more musical focus, since that was what he was more comfortable with producing. Finally though since covid made doing live shows impossible, and that was the backbone of what the show was, he decided to shut it down. It was super frustrating to see it go after such a long history, but it was yet another Covid business failure. There are many.

That's strange, I live in flyover land, never thought any of that about NPR... quite the opposite. I always felt like I heard more of a variety of content from all sorts of places on NPR compared to other media outlets.

I am sad that one of the top comments on a feel good story is a feel bad rant. What does "coastal preference" have to do with dinosaurs and 8 year olds?

The gap in quality between "HN talking about technology" and "HN talking about politics" is enormous regardless of which side of said politics you're on.

The cultural dynamics of the vaguely-republican contrarian types you get on hackernews is quite fascinating in some threads (not this one to be clear).

There’s a certain irony to NPR doing a “we talk too much about politics, his something else” story, and all the comments here being about how npr is too liberal. Deep down, everyone wants a politics story

>The unceremonious dumping of A Prairie Home Companion, which wasn't exactly my schtick but provided a little variety at least, made their coastal preference clear.

What in the world are you talking about? Why is your post laden with so much angst and victimhood-language, without any real reasoning at all? Do you really think this type of post contributes to an HN-worthy conversation on any topic?

A Prairie Home Companion is also not a NPR program

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