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by bko 1774 days ago
According to the author's examples of bullshit, NPR peddles the same stuff as the other for-profit main stream publications.

> Immerse yourself in news of Russian plots to counterfeit presidential children’s laptops [0], viruses spawned in Wuhan market stalls [1], vast secret legions of domestic terrorists flashing one another the OK sign in shadowy parking lots [2] behind Bass Pro Shops experiencing “temporary” inflation [3], and patriotic tech conglomerates purging the commons of untruths.

I listed to them for years but noticed a considerable shift in their reporting in the last 2-3 years.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924506867/analysis-questionab...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800725826/why-wet-markets-are...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/01/15/957421470...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/17/1017264502/the-federal-reserv...

[4] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/959667930

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>According to the author's examples of bullshit

That's the author's definition of bullshit though, it doesn't necessarily constitute actual bullshit.