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Segments unnecessarily repetitious, narratives repetitious, opinions of non-experts.[edit]

For example, almost daily stories involving the maui fire, overproduced with emotion-provoking music and interviews of anyone who might contribute to "radio dial-bait". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.12.149.250 (talk) 15:40, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mumia Abu-Jamal[edit]

"In 1994, NPR arranged to air commentaries by convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal on All Things Considered, but cancelled them after the Fraternal Order of Police and members of the U. S. Congress objected to the airing.[13]"

This quote says it all. The Police Union and right wing politicians snap their fingers and NPR jumps to please.

Also, phrases like "convicted cop killer" do not belong in Wikipedia. The idea is to imply that he is not only a cop killer, but also has been convicted, so that the word "convicted" is used as an adjective.

In the legal climate of the 21st century, the correct characterization would be "person convicted of killing a cop". ---Dagme (talk) 20:10, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The words "convicted cop" form an adjective and another characterization would be "person who killed a convicted cop". 73.12.149.250 (talk) 15:51, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Tiny Desk[edit]

The NPR Tiny Desk sessions on youtube feature 85% black musicians — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:DA80:3:632:E19A:346F:EC9:3DFD (talk) 10:26, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

NYTimes article was cited to make a misleading claim[edit]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/business/npr-trump-budget.html?algo=top_conversion&fellback=false&imp_id=634199491&imp_id=759692129&action=click&module=trending&pgtype=Article&region=Footer

This article merely states that 1% of NPR's funding comes directly from Federal funding. The article was cited to make it seem that NPR received its funding primarily from corporate sponsorships. It did not make clear that it makes the plurality of its revenue from sliding scale dues based on local member radio stations' revenue and number of listeners, and that the local radio stations' revenues comes primarily from listener contributions and grants. A much more direct and complete source for this subject is https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.78.17.159 (talk) 19:37, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]