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Anastasis

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  1. The uri reference may have been too obscure earlier. https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite. It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley. I fit the NPR mold. I’ll cop to that. So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk where news is always breaking, we’ve covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI. It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding. In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population. If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way. But it hasn’t.
  2. It’s hilarious that this thread turned to criticism of academic accomplishment.
  3. Daniel the tiger and the trolley would fucking kill. ESP for genx parents of younger kids. But that window is mostly closed. Fred didn’t want the marketing to kids and that is certainly to be respected. So people should open they own pocket books to support the things that they want to promote. This is not hard. You don’t need government and the threat of violence to support the arts and media.
  4. I have a surplus of abandoned “in this house we believe in science” signs if anyone needs one. They are piled up next to the 2007 vintage “STOP WAR NOW” ones.
  5. There’s a new toyco heading to Sesame Street. Just Play is replacing Hasbro as Sesame Workshop’s master toy licensing partner for North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa starting in 2023. Sesame Workshop brands generate around US$1.2 billion in licensed product sales each year, according to the nonprofit. https://kidscreen.com/2022/03/04/just-play-takes-over-sesame-workshop-toy-licensing
  6. If you like your KUT you can keep your KUT, you might just have to write a check. It won't be the end of the world.
  7. I make the kids listen too, until sometimes the content is not age appropriate.
  8. I've done this. But is was a tomahawk and two couples and plenty of meat. I still felt bad afterwards.
  9. Carrots didn't come in this year, but got japs in bunches, so I use the fresh pickled japs out of the garden. They mellow out very nicely with a few weeks in the brine.
  10. fried pork and chicken cutlets, marinara, mozz, broc.
  11. KUT is literally the only ota radio I listen to. Your assessment is absolutely laughable.
  12. Surly trained AI would be funny as fuck.
  13. Too bad eskimo took over cause the collective bailed on much better content from the old site. Imma sitting on a goldmine if fn Reddit getting paid. AI trained off UT boards should be worth multiple of that crap.
  14. Fred rogers died over 20 years ago. All the programming is available on YouTube. You have to invest a few minutes to block the shorts from popping up. That shit is brain damaging.
  15. Media 55 years ago was a bit different. I understand that many of us Gen X wish it were different today. If it were only that simple.
  16. The calls are coming from inside the house, Uri.
  17. That "public" broadcasting has been captured by one end of the political spectrum? This is simple quoting of Pew polls. Do you need the links?
  18. A compelling objective argument.
  19. No reply is really warranted. Sometimes you just have to let the clown show play out.
  20. The answer is probably embedded somewhere in there.
  21. This is all looking backwards twice. Media has moved on. Zero kids listen to radio or OTA TV. Come on man.
  22. Not sure what that market looks like at the moment. My boys mostly watching fishing videos on youtube these days and my daughter won't pull her head out of a college test prep book.
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