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NPR largely lost my support after the way they covered the Palestinian genocide.
I'll never forget them running a story after the attack in Israel by Hamas. They interviewed a Jewish family in an affluent town in upstate New York. Emphasizing how afraid these wealthy Americans were. The children made it sound like Hamas would crawl through their windows at any moment. It was ridiculous.
They reversed a bit now that public opinion, and that of their audience, soured on the conflict, but it changed my view on their news significantly
I totally get that. NPR has been painfully centrist, as a close friend and I describe, for quite some time. Hell, Sen. Johnson comes on every week to rant about liberals. But the gold is not their political coverage. The gold is shear dearth of knowledge they bring to people. I have learned so much, through public radio. So, I wanted you to at least know, there's more to them, than just politics. I'm sure you do, but it can't ever hurt, if it helps someone learn something new. Blessings unto you and your family.
Oh I understand the other good they do, so I'll never condemn them but they won't ever recieve money from me.
Hell if I'm in the car I still put them on, but my trust in them is greatly eroded. I wish their coverage had remained centrist, but it really seemed completely tuned to justifying the conflict not providing the facts
When all of this was first happening, it sure did look like Palestine elected a government that attempted to commit genocide against the Jews and drive them out of Israel. The tides have turned and the genocide backfired, but it's hard to blame NPR for being at one point sympathetic.
If your news source was leading you to believe a narrative that "Palestine elected a government that attempted to commit genocide against the Jews and drive them out of Israel" then you should question the lack of context and facts that your news source is providing.
You should blame NPR for this, and the fact that you don't shows that you haven't learned your lesson and you will fall for it again.
Umm, are we glossing over the settler attacks?
One good thing came out of all this—these stations/museums/whatever are now free to say what they want, without fear of losing government funding.