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Outstanding, Craig Whitlock and the rest of the Washington Post team, for finally bringing this travesty to the forefront. The book - <em>The New Ministry of Truth: Combat Advisors in Afghanistan and America's Great Betrayal</em> - broke this story when published last May, but major news outlets refused to cover it due to its controversial nature. This reporting has shattered this suppression.

Bottom line, we've been lied to about Afghanistan for years. Hopefully Mr. Whitlock's phenomenal work forces our elected officials to finally have an open and frank debate about the overarching purpose of our military operations.

> The man is a racist and there is no way in hell that NPR would give anyone saying these same things about any any other race one second of air time.

1) I see no indication that he's racist. He's talking about the idea of reparations which is not without merit (nor is it without demerit). Here's a link to the NYT piece that Washington Times references:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/magazine/michael-eric-dyson-believes-in-individual-reparations.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=magazine&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=hi...

2) I do think it's worth noting that there's a certain relationship between blacks and whites in the US that makes it a little different to compare to relationships between two other races. But they have talked about reparations recently in another context:

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/09/210138278/japanese-internment-redress

3) It's actually true that the church was burned and spray painted with vote Trump, the caption is not inaccurate. But as you point out given that they think it was a black parishioner that did the burning and spray painting it is misleading in this context.

4) /u/FuzzyHappyBunnies has posted a link to the ombusmen page which has contact information. While I certainly welcome a discussion here, if you're actually looking for some sort of redress or to have NPR comment on this picture that has you questioning their objectivity I think direct feedback to NPR would be a good course of action.

> 3 a : expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations &lt;objective art&gt; &lt;an objective history of the war&gt; &lt;an objective judgment&gt;

-- Merriam-Webster

"without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations" definitely means "unbaised". It's not the only meaning of the word, but it is one of its meanings.

Me and my dad were on a tour of NPR and they randomly asked if we would like to stay for a Tiny Desk Concert. We got to see the Oh Hellos play their Christmas album! I consider myself pretty lucky because they said the only way tourists get to see Tiny Desk Concerts is if they're in the right place at the right time.

Link to the concert!

You know, I thought it was just me that couldn't stand her voice. ITs like salted sandpaper on an open wound when she talks! Her voice and its irritation are a thing (among nerds!): https://www.quora.com/NPR-Planet-Money/Why-does-Zoe-Chaces-voice-irritate-so-many-people

Hidden Brain's Eyes Wide Open episode deals with the aftereffects of sleep deprivation. Such a great podcast.

Tunein Radio has a record function. I haven't used it myself, but it sounds like it should work for what you want.

It has gotten rather expensive since I bought it. Here is a free alternative.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.audials

If you use the Pocket Casts app (for iOS or Android) you can link to a specific moment in a podcast

Huh, I came here to ask a similar question, so clearly the sentiment isn't just you.

I have a bit of a weird relationship with NPR, I only consume their news through the app, and have been using that app frequently for about 4 years now. Since I've chosen them as my primary news source, I clearly like NPR, yet I have a critical reaction to most of their pieces. I rarely listen to NPR on the radio, because it's always a repeat of the stories on the app (or I guess I should say, the app is a repeat of the stories on the radio...) and the radio programs seems to favor human interest, arts, and general "fluff" pieces that I'd rather skip. (I do listen to my local affiliate on the radio however since it's one of the only quality sources of local news).

I recently learned about the NPR Ombudsman, who is supposed to field questions from the general public about exactly these sorts of things. I would recommend though that you have something very specific to ask / complain about.

One usually sure-fire way to do it is to check your local station's schedule, verify what program was airing at the time, and then check that program's website.

I think you heard Karen Petrou on this morning's Marketplace Morning Report.

Thanks for the compliment - it was fun to work on.

This was actually my first ever project after learning to code (Python) on Codecademy (inspired by the NPR API tutorial they have), so I was more interested in automation. I was also perhaps a bit lazy once I found a data source, and my mind was occupied with all the front end stuff, which ended up taking a whole lot more time (d3js especially!).

If you do create the list, and feel like sharing, I'd happily receive it. Here is the data on which the site is based

You need someone to crack bones for your stewpot or something?

They sell tools for that that are much cheaper than 50% of the city’s budget.

> it will effect no one anyway

I know it does effect people, but if you think it doesn't why go to the hassle of doing it in the first place?

Since we're on /r/npr here's a more user-friendly, sub-relevant resource than the one you shared

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/02/567882076/fact-check-how-does-paul-ryans-case-for-tax-cuts-match-the-facts

> Ryssdal: Virtually all analysis shows that the bulk of the tax cuts and the bulk of the benefit of this bill go to the wealthy in America.

> Brady: Yeah, and that's absolutely incorrect

> Ryssdal: No sir, it's not.

> Brady: No, actually, it is —

NPR evaluated this earlier in the legislative process

> But analysts at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center who studied the proposal reached a very different conclusion. They predict that nearly three-quarters of the savings from the tax overhaul would go to the top 20 percent of earners — those making more than $149,000.

• BBC World Services via TuneIn (phone app/website/Roku). TuneIn streams a gazillion radio stations and podcasts.

• France 24 (international news in English) on TV through my Roku box

• Sky News (international news based in the UK) through Roku. Sky trends conservative, founded by Rupert Murdoch, but is now owned by Comcast. It was never close to being like Fox due to a media law that regulates truth in reporting or somesuch.

• A local radio call-in show 3 hours every morning

• I don't stream it, but probably should, Democracy Now! via TuneIn phone app/website/Roku

I was only recently exposed to the notion that any critique of Israeli policy or action was implicitly anti-semitic in an episode of NYT's The Argument last month, and it baader meinhof'd me in the middle of this interview between Steve Inskeep and Deborah Lipstadt this morning.

Not trying to create drama. Just trying to promote accuracy and credit where credit is due.

NPR is a direct competitor with PRI, why should they get the credit for such an excellent program?

Even This American Life themselves cite this as an issue of ignorance: https://twitter.com/#!/ThisAmerLife/status/96342254205157377

You think it's wrong for Kyle to carry a gun (that he legally can) and be out past curfew at the same time you think it's okay for Gaige, a felon, to do the same thing.

This seems to be up your alley since all you like to do is jump through hoops and play mental gymnastics.

Here is an example, her interview with Astronaut Scott Kelly. She talks normally while introducing her interview, and then as soon as the interview starts her voice slows down, she gets very quiet, so quiet that I had to turn up the radio in my car all the way, and she just sounds like she is about to cry, at least to me.

Maybe it was this? https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/529942441/wired-for-altruism

Found it because some of the principles you mentioned made me think of Peter Singer, and the segment with Abigail Marsh discusses kidney donation...

Of course it's working now under spotlight. =)

If you were up for it, I'd love to see what happened previously. This link (after you sign-in with Amazon) has your Alexa conversation history. You can click through on the phrase on the timestamps when it was acting up and there should be a clue in there that shows what service responded. Would love to see a screenshot.

But if you've got better things to do, totally understand!

The Ubuntu-derived OS is current with all updates. I have

• cleared cache and cookies

• restarted without add-ons enabled

• tried multiple browsers [Chromium, Firefox, Tor (based on an earlier version of Firefox)]

• asked friends to try

Every time, the "loading channels..." animation above the footer repeats endlessly.

I also use RSS feeds but I understand it's a little bit of trouble for many to set up.

https://www.podparadise.com/

I recommend this site to many people and use it myself to find new podcasts. There is a download button that will load an audio file. You can tap the progress bar and select download. I use VLC to play them.

Ive asked Marketplace about this as well. I read this book looong time ago and it still seems relevant.

The End of Work- Jeremy Rifkin

https://www.amazon.com/End-Work-Decline-Global-Post-Market/dp/0874778247

• NPR One is still available - note that NPR merged the NPR One functionality into the NPR skill: https://www.amazon.com/NPR/dp/B0788Z3W4H
• I also had trouble in early May and I had written to NPR; they replied back then that "NPR was making some improvements to the NPR One skill for Alexa, which caused some hiccups for users who pulled up the skill"

• NPR One is still available - note that NPR merged the NPR One functionality into the NPR skill: https://www.amazon.com/NPR/dp/B0788Z3W4H
• I also had trouble in early May and I had written to NPR; they replied back then that "NPR was making some improvements to the NPR One skill for Alexa, which caused some hiccups for users who pulled up the skill"

This is the same, tired Soviet propaganda narrative western communists have been shilling for the past fifty years.

If you want to read all the stuff elided from this bullocks, check out The World Was Going Our Way.

Not exactly the question OP was asking, but if you want to listen to stuff as you fall asleep, but have someone else sleeping in the room with you that doesn't want to hear your shit, buy these.

A little pricey, but they are basically bluetooth headphones in a headband that you can fall asleep in. I usually wake up in the morning and they are either half-on or fell off my head. Either way, my head/ears don't hurt or anything. Can play whatever the heck you want through them; I tend to listen to podcasts. Been using these for over a year, bought three of them.

How 'bout an Indie publisher book - Freak Show Without A Tent: Swimming with Piranhas, Getting Stoned in Fiji and Other Family Vacations by Nevin Martell

The leader you're searching for does not exist. The path towards leadership is so compromising that it necessarily requires a leader to conceded the person they once were for that which is most expedient. &quot;We cannot control the things life does to to us. They are done before you know it. And once they are done they make you do other things, until, at last, everything comes between you and the man you wanted to be.&quot; You should check out this book titled <em>One Dimensional Man.</em> It's by far the best account I've read on how society manages to find a way to co-opt even the most resistant of people.

http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Lawrence-Travelling-Arabia-During/dp/9562916367

The Diary Kept by T. E. Lawrence While Travelling in Arabia During 1911

This is Lawrence's travel journal when he was working in the Middle East as an archaeologist in 1911. The reason he knew the ME as much as he did was because he'd worked there before the war with Hogarth, where the archaeologists would go out "surveying" the Germans out building the Hejaz railroad (the one Lawrence kept blowing up) and other German archaeologists (who, in turn, were "surveying" them).

The journal is more about his travels around the Middle East- how he got around, who he met, what he saw, that kind of thing.

I think the track you're looking for is the intro to "The Accident" on David Byrne's <em>Look Into The Eyeball.</em>

NPR used it quite a bit as a bumper around 9/11.

The rest of the album is terrific, too. I've had it in rotation for years.

Good suggestions here, and I wanted to add another. I use a free app called NPR Station Finder on my Android phone. I would imagine there is an iPhone version out there as well.

Also. Check if your local station has an android App (really any station's would work). I use the WOSU app (in Columbus, Ohio) and there's an on-demand section of the app, with an option to listen to the entire show. Here's the download link for android. Once you load the app, click the menu button on the top left, go to On Demand, then click Morning Edition. You can listen to any show this way.