I have stopped listening to most of the NPR broadcast programs

[irisblue]

I find I am sleeping better. Morning Edition, Here & Now, All things Considered were a major part of my daily listening, I'm still listen to some of the local Columbus based radio programs

I still listen to the BBC overnight to the US, I find that their global news is less nerve jangling to me & are less biased in reporting US news.

Anyone else cut back on their NPR listening?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Another option: Pacifica Radio

Totally listener-supported, non-commercial.

Here's online streaming for WBAI in New York City:

https://www.wbai.org/

[mucifer]

2. I listen more to classical music when I drive between my patients' homes

NPR and progressive radio WCPT is what I listened to before. Now I get too depressed. It's easier to read the news on DU.

[FarPoint]

3. I get 80% of my news on Podcasts/ YouTube..

and DU posts.... I do listen to local news just for traffic reports....No cable or Legacy media...

NPR at times when in the car driving...or just rock music or " cafe" music channel on Sirius Radio....

listen to anything else but cable news now on Sirius...

TV...I'm still watching binge style " Walking Dead"....Star Trek.. Lucifer, NCIS New Orleans, actual cooking on Food Network, no games/ playing with food. ...

I love my YouTube psychic tarot channels that focus on politics like Linda G., Sterling, Revealing Light Tarot

[LymphocyteLover]

4. Yes, I did. Almost 20 years ago. I couldn't handle them during the GWB admin

[speak easy]

6. Almost 20 years ago ... during the GWB admin

Gawd I feel old.

[Bluetus]

16. Same here. It is clear that they responded to GOP attacks

By reaching an understanding that the GOP would leave them alone if they stopped doing stories of substance and concentrated on LGBT discussion instead.

I'm glad that the LGBT community gained an outlet, but NPR became mostly useless to me.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. I think the nickname "Nice Polite Republicans" is very true and any entity that normalizes

Republicans in any way, is a huge part of the problem, IMO.

[OddMom20]

5. I've Cut Back on My News Intake

Not just NPR, but news in general. I’m a less anxious, more pleasant person because of it. I still want to be aware of what’s happening in the world, I just find consuming in a limited basis is a healthier option for me. Hopefully for you, too!

[dem4decades]

7. Me too. I fill that time with music.

[J_William_Ryan]

8. I've stopped listening to US broadcast programs, not just NPR.

Too much Trump and his gang of fascist thugs, along with interviews with Republican politicians who do nothing but lie and deflect.

[WestMichRad]

13. This, exactly

Quit them all about a year ago, exasperated with all of their BS and continually normalizing republican extremism.

[DownriverDem]

9. No but I

do listen and watch the CBC from Windsor Ontario. Also I go to YouTube (free one) and watch videos from MeidasTouch.

[area51]

10. I don't watch US mainstream broadcast news,

but do watch DW news in English and the English version of France24.

[mwmisses4289]

11. Usually just in the car as I'm driving,

but i find myself turning off their news programming more and more. Prefer their line up on Sat and sun, especially wait, wait don't tell me.

[Gimpyknee]

12. I'm still listening to NPR. What's your problem?

[irisblue]

15. Gimpyknee did you plan on sounding so hostile by using the phrase " What's your problem?"

I am finding that many of the nationally based NPR shows are reflecting a more rightwing/conservative point of view. I do not wish to support that point of view.
My local NPR station, WOSU 89.7 fm does produce programs with various points of view. For example 'Weekly Reporters Roundtable' where reporters from various news organizations across the state where moderate & conservative & liberal editorial points over view are presented. Another one is 'Columbus on the Record' a weekly show with the show from 6/26/2025 one that I've listened to 3 times. [Ohio Lessons from NYC Mayor’s Race
Season 20 Episode 38 | 26m 46s
New York City is not Ohio. Its politics are very different, but there could be some lessons for Ohio Democratics. Young far left progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani beat the older establishment candidate this week. We also look at Ohio income tax cut are headed to the governor, state money for pro sports stadiums and arenas and the new higher education anti-DEI law goes into effect.

Aired: 06/26/25] .

The local NPR stations are still doing a fairer job them the 3 nationally based shows I mentioned.

[mitch96]

25. Well gimp that was pretty nasty... nt

[Prof. P.E. Name]

14. The "Problem" is insufferable "Bothsides-ism"

It was entertaining with Mark Shields and Babbling Brooks, but the threats of Federal defunding from congressional Cons resulted in the likes of guests like Peter Navarro, Russian-born Boris Epshtein, and really anyone else who spouted the repetitive Republican rhetoric. Spent way too much shouting at my TeeVee..

BTW, why does MSNBC’s Ari Melber call Epshtein, Epstein? And how does a fool like Navarro land himself in jail and a real con like Epshtein stay out of jail? Doe the mere threat of a pardon keep him from being charged?

Guess I answered my own question.

[dpibel]

30. You mean Boris Epshteyn?

[EYESORE 9001]

17. I gave up on NPR for news years ago

I dubbed them National Petroleum Radio during the run-up to boosh’s war against Iraq for fun & profit.

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

19. Still like NPR and local station

Even here in what some critics call The Peoples Republic of Maryland for its liberalism the AM radio stations are nearly all 24/7 Rightwing Hate Talk. Hence, the only plausible recourse is the NPR station. I agree that NPR tries to provide both sides of the story but all the Republicans who are interviewed do is sing praises for Donald. That does have the effect of normalizing what that madman and his criminal cabal are doing to destroy our democracy and divide the American people. I wish that some sane Republicans could be interviewed, but that's impossible since there are none. The state's one Republican in the US House is the quintessential lunatic Doc Andy Harris (a doc who opposes healthcare for the uninsured) who has a cult following on the backward Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. He brazenly votes as he is instructed by his wealthy paymasters. Despite that, he has a safe seat as long as he wants it.

Maryland has plenty of MAGAs and the rural counties are hopelessly red. The red counties despise the more liberal ones surrounding Baltimore City and Washington, DC. My red one is now totally run by MAGA Republicans / religious fanatics and the county exec is a Donald bootlicker. The last time the county voted for a Democrat for president was 1964!!! I moved here when the conservative Dems ran everything. Since 2000 everything became red. Developers own the politicians and are busy building housing and apartment developments and commercial complexes. Only the pandemic slowed them down for a time. Traffic in those areas is horrible. So much for good government.

[AllaN01Bear]

20. """

iquitt listening to npr as i live in a bowl @ tic toc base. i also dont listen to local am or fm as they are owned by a rwj so and so. all sinclair broadcasting junk.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

21. I still listen

to NPR. I hope that is okay .

[jrthin]

22. I gave up on them during the GWB administration.

[Midnight Writer]

23. Around here, teh choice is NPR, RW Hate Radio, "religious" scammery, or country music.

I listen to NPR all the time. I think they do good work.

[Krazy_Kat]

24. I have definitely cut down my listening

I like my local station but now I listen to my music playlist on the way to work.

[mitch96]

26. I have cut back also. Mainly just in the car now.. Wait wait don't tell me. Tedx hour BBC world service

Programs like that.. Not much of the gloom and doom TFG news..
And yes I donate when they have a match...
Hate the begging for cars though.. I switch stations when that dreck comes on...
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[bif]

27. I never listen to it anymore.

Back when I was working I listened to it during my long commute. Now I never tune it in. I get enough bad news here o DU!

[a kennedy]

28. Well it's sounding like NPR and PBS will be losing their money due to cuts from Congress so there might not

be either soon. I’ll miss them myself.

[electric_blue68]

29. Haven't listened to NPR for a while but not for the general reason people are giving here. I'm going back to listening..

to see how I feel about it.

I do listen to local WNYC off and on.

[summer_in_TX]

31. I've been very pleased with NPR before and since the election.

On numerous shows they have had many episodes on the rise of authoritarianism as they report on what the Trump administration is doing. PBS News too. But they don't do it in the way of MSNBC, or online partisan networks with their huge lurid headlines, and so my anxiety isn't triggered by it.

Does anyone think the BBC can replace the content of NPR and PBS? I don't. Not in America. Not under Trump, for sure, but really, they can't provide what NPR does. They don't have the investment in the whole news reporting infrastructure, including reporters, it would take to do it here.

I don't compare NPR and PBS so much with what other nations have but with what our country does. I think they are head and shoulders above any other American broadcast network.

They angered me often during the GWB administration. But they have been doing a really good job in more recent years. Even though their funding is under serious threat, I don't hear any lack of truthful coverage of what the Trump administration is doing.

I've often wondered if there wasn't some kind of campaign to undermine and create distrust in our pre-eminent local, national, and international news network. I suspect the billionaires and Russian oligarchs are beside themselves with how well their efforts to get rid of real journalism in the US is working. 90 percent of important news stories originate from real news organizations in spite of all the social media we are inundated with.

With the news desert problem widespread across our country now, can you imagine if NPR goes away?

I think of Marfa Public Radio in West Texas, where the sparse rainfall equates to few people spread out far and wide, trying to eke out a living. That station cannot sustain itself without outside funding like that from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – and they are a lifeline to their listeners in fires and other severe weather. Plus they are possibly the only source of information that is not RW radio or television.

I just hope it somehow is able to keep going and doesn't fold. It doesn't sound like many here would be inclined to step up and help them stay afloat. It's a shame. I consider it short-sighted.

[pansypoo53219]

32. i had to do online to eliminate drumpf.