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No, NPR, There Is No Evidence Trump Will Be a Champion of the Working Class | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

With his small town, egalitarian rallies and appeals to “the forgotten man and woman,” he has revived the term populism in the political lexicon and gone further with it than anyone since Bryan’s heyday.

And this is how it happens. The moment Trump launches an investigation into PBS and NPR, they start kowtowing to his every demand and saying whatever he wants to hear in order to keep their funding.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In 2016 NPR laid out a smear campaign on Bernie Sanders. Didn't even give the man equal time. Just smeared him. If it gets defunded I won't be totally sad.

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I literally stopped listening to NPR after the way they treated him.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yea, same. Stopped donating. Stopped caring what they had to say. I'm glad there's some of us out there that saw it. It was such a wakeup call moment.

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It really tainted everything I listened to on the station.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

NPR stopped being credible when one of the Koch brothers bought his way into PBS and got on the board. Since then they've been "fair and balanced". Trump is just finishing the job.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that didn't last very long and he was out.

[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What evidence suggests, is he will pour gas on an already hot fire, then with all the warmth everyone will assume everything is good when in reality, the village is burning down and tomorrow is gonna be cold...

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

They were doing this before he was elected. Recall NPR unquestioning reporting Trump’s housing policy.

What was his housing policy?

Concentration camps.

Modern journalism can’t resist this kind of wankery.

[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

He's going to build them all houses to live in and give them all jobs. They'll never have to worry about unemployment again.