PBS Is Good For You!

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41. I've been pleased that PBS and NPR both have had numerous segments on propaganda, fascism,

and the erosion of our liberties.

A year or so ago here on DU I read a thread about how untrustworthy NPR was. I guess their station doesn't air the shows and segments I hear regularly.

My husband and I absolutely love NPR and always are asking one another if they heard what the other just heard. I've driven up and down my street before going home because I just had to listen to the rest of a fascinating story. So I couldn't understand why there was such negativity here on DU then.

I've started to wonder though if there might be an active campaign to undermine trust in reliable news sources like PBS and NPR. There has certainly been a campaign to undermine trust in other media, so it seems likely.

My libertarian son thinks NPR is full of propaganda – but he follows Joe Rogan and used to follow Alex Jones. Not sure he'd recognize real propaganda from trustworthy content at all.

Not that PBS and NPR are perfect, but they do present a fuller picture and ensure viewers/listeners hear points of view from a range of sources. And they carry far more than news of course, so much rich, fascinating stories.